Vision & Mission

Candlelight Strategic Philosophy

Vision Statement

Peaceful, Environmentally Conscious and Productive Society.

Mission statement

Building partnerships to improve quality of community lives through environmental
conservation, equitable access to quality education, health and humanitarian services.

Core Value

In delivering on its mission in the strategic plan, Candlelight will uphold the institutional
and ethical values stipulated here below:

  1. Integrity: Honesty (including transparency and accountability), trust and
    openness to our stakeholders through commitment to delivering results and
    taking responsibility for our actions.
  2. Equity and Fairness: Embrace diversity, gender equity, impartiality and non-
    discrimination in all our activities and, endeavor to target the poorest of the
    poor.
    Excellency: Confident pursuit of highest quality as our belief in what we do while
    warranting our persistent commitment to quality service delivery.
  3. Collaboration and team spirit: Internal and external collaboration by supporting
    one another, respecting one another’s view, entrenching participation and
    making our work environment fun and enjoyable. We strive to ensure our teams
    have areas that are celebrated by all.
  4. Community Norms and Culture Respect: We respect community values and
    traditions; as well as individuality, knowledge, skills, ideas and capabilities that
    each employee brings to the team towards developing appropriate technologies
    and cost effective solutions to alleviating poverty.

Objectives

  • Working towards the improvement of the environmental situation of the country.
  • Advancing education by the provision of facilities for schooling and other learning opportunities as well as vocational training for the youth.
  • Improving the living conditions of low-income women, pastoralists and agro-pastoralists by helping them through income generation/diversification activities.
  • Awareness creation on health issues and health promotion programs and women’s reproductive health.
  • Responding to humanitarian needs of affected communities during disasters.

Governance Body

Candlelight is governed by a board of directors of five members entrusted with overall responsibility of the organization through provision of oversight, leadership and guidance. A management team comprised of heads of departments is headed by an executive director who is in charge of execution of day to day operations in accordance with advice and policies laid down by the board of directors. The board of directors include:

  1.  Amina Awale Guleid – Chairperson
  2.  Jawahir Ahmed Abdi – Deputy Chairperson
  3.  Fardus Awil Jama – Secretary
  4.  Dahir Yusuf Elmi – Treasurer
  5.  Ahmed Nur Hussein – Member