O BOM SAMARITANO (THE GOOD SAMARITAN)

WHO WE ARE
The Good Samaritan is a non-profit organization working for the welfare and promotion of economic empowerment for the less privilege and unemployed youths living in Guinea-Bissau. Founded in 2003 by Desmond Friday Nkeki and Sunday Oladele Macaulay who sees humanitarian assistance to mankind as a divine call to serve humanity .Two friends who shares the same idea about how to better humanity life in the year 2003 with no political or religious affiliation. We are founded on the principles of democracy, peace, citizen’s rights, human rights, and non-discrimination on the basis of belief, race, color, age, sexual orientation or gender.

The Good Samaritan has as its purpose -to fight against all forms of social exclusion, providing national and international volunteer placements in various areas, notably the environment, education, health the arts, culture and science. Our programs help, directly and indirectly, provide social assistance to children and young adults, and to social groups at risk of social exclusion, promoting their citizenship and social integration.
The Good Samaritan tends to operate in partnership with both local and international NGOs in Guinea-Bissau with the aim of sharing ideas and working together to design programs which better serve the communities.
The Good Samaritan offers Academic, vocational and occupational programs through in-school, out-of-school and post-school program interventions. The youth get equitable qualitative learning and promising labour market oriented vocational training opportunities that support their pathways to safe and positive futures. The Good Samaritan has an impressive footprint in terms of its approach, face-to-face and e-learning training content and methodology, capacity building of service providers and job placement support to trainees. The Good Samaritan specializes in working with the most deprived, vulnerable and difficult to reach sections of young and women at risk in poor urban, peri-urban, rural, tribal communities and has a very strong gender perspective through community based programs that will be spread across all the regions in Guinea-Bissau.
MISSION
Our mission is to impact required knowledge and information to help build safer, healthier and productive communities of young people capable of supporting self-directed growth and positive citizenship. Also to develop Youth skills for the betterment of society, which The Good Samaritan provide in a safe, respectful, and celebratory atmosphere. Facilitate global understanding and grow leadership among Youth to enhance their participation in social movement for a better world.
VISION
Our vision is to be an end-to-end community based solutions provider in linking quality learning and sustainable livelihood for vulnerable communities of children and young people. The Good Samaritan empowers Society to identify and Develop their D.R.E.A.M.S.(Dynamic, Realizable Efforts to Attain and Maintain . Success) and own their future.
• Work as a catalyst in bringing change in the lives of thousands of underprivileged and marginalized children, youths and women, by addressing their basic needs.
• Enable and empower the youths and less privilege to engage proactively in the change process through the philosophy of civic driven change.
•Adopt highest standards of governance to emerge as a leading knowledge and technology driven, innovative and scalable international development organization.
The Good Samaritan aims to promise a culture of inquiry, critical thinking, free exchange of thoughts, research, scholarship, Human resource, peace, universal brotherhood tolerance, unity in diversity, cultural pluralism and indigenous knowledge among its students and society in general a produce. Better generation and leadership for liberal, prosperous, congenial harmonious and progressive world.
OBJECTIVES
The Good Samaritan connect Youth nationwide, To provide opportunities for learning, capacity-building, cross-cultural Awareness and self-development among young people through participation in activities, programs and projects, Inform them of opportunities available; Provide inspiration to realize their potential, Promote understanding of their challenges and perspectives, Connect to a virtual and physical network.
GOAL
The Good Samaritan taking steps to bring people from darkness to light without discrimination of caste, creed, & gender geographical boundaries.

OUR APPROACH TO ACHIEVE RESULTS
We facilitate exchange of resources, opportunities and competencies between businesses, communities through public-private partnerships that contribute to long term sustainable livelihood development benefiting the difficult-to reach sections of young people. Our approach will also be broadly based on the innovative concept of Social Venture Philanthropy, adapted from the successful business model of venture capital. Under this model, we will partner with emerging and committed grassroots organizations for reaching out to underprivileged communities through education and healthcare of children etc. The well-being of children is intertwined with their family and community; we adopt the integrated model of development, weaving initiatives like education for children, healthcare for people, skill enhancement for youth, and empowerment of women and girls. This model will be implemented through a two-pronged approach of working through community based organizations as well as direct implementation of our development initiatives.

OUR TEAM
Our programs are led by those who speak the local languages, know the culture and understand the unique challenges of each community. Because of the challenges, more than 93 percent of our field staffs will be from different communities here in Guinea-Bissau. Their hard work and personal commitment to success will help lift their neighbors from poverty.

Undertake target oriented programs for development of few and enhancement of existing skill to the need for youth in the specific area/regions e.g. Urban and Rural areas etc.
• Youth will be given representations in think thanks, policy function and implementation forums.
• Social volunteerism: youth will be encouraged undertake voluntary social service.
• Incentives: for talented and high performing youth: talented and high performing youth will be given recognition reward and incentive at the national level efforts made to motivate and attracts them towards service for the nation.
• Youth Mentoring: supporting and guiding the Youth in identifying their potentials, overcoming their failures, adopting the traits of good citizen and boosting their morale for high achievement in life.
• Youth in Person: Special Program for rehabilitation Mentoring, Training, and Education and incentives time the prison will be evolved so that their time in the prison is to utilized to become good citizens in integrating in social economic activities.
Convert the demographic increase in the population of youth (demographic dividend) into an economic dividend by engaging the youth in economic activates, enabling gainful engagements in income generation (Domestically and abroad) to propel the growth of Guinea-Bissau on the 21st century.
Provide and environment to facilitate the youth in exploiting their full potential. Address the gender imbalance in the access to facilities and economic opportunities between male and female young population.
Provide and facilitate education and youth literacy programmed for those who have missed childhood education.
To expose youth to works and examples of high achievers in the world in various walks of life and to instill a passion to excel and achieve excellence.
Develop amongst the youth an international outlook, a desire to compete, an insight into other cultures and desire to learn lesson from achievements and errors of other's.

WHAT WE DO
We focus on the people that others forget. People in poverty. People who face discrimination. People whose voices are ignored.

Our project and programs
1, Good Education for all specially the younger ones
2, Good Health care for all specially in the rural area
3, Good Portable water for all specially in the rural area
4, Auto Agriculture program for women in the rural settlement
5, Disaster Management
6, Human Right especially for children and women
7, Youth Career Initiative model

1. Education program:
The main goal of our programming in education is to eliminate gender disparities in basic education especial that of female because they are the most deprived in the society. The Good Samaritan believes that, when ever you are addressing healthcare, poverty, population control, unemployment or human rights, there's no better place to start than in the corridors of Education. Because education is both the means as well as the end to a better life: means, because it empowers an individual to earn his/her livelihood and the end because it increases one's awareness on a range of issues – from healthcare to appropriate social behavior to understanding one's rights - and in the process evolve as a better citizen. Education for underprivileged Children is the key and better way to address healthcare, poverty, population control, unemployment or human rights issues
The Good Samaritan Education Challenge:
Before the finding of (TGS) we already knew that girls education in Guinea- Bissau is more or less not existing, that pose a challenge of passion to us, that is why (TGS) decided to have a special program for girls. The Girls’ Education Challenge (TGS) has been designed to promote innovative approaches to reaching marginalized girls, defined as girls aged 6-19 who

BFLN PROGAM.
A child’s early years are essential for building the foundation of literacy and numeracy skills that are necessary for success later in life. This is why EDC Literacy, Language, and Learning Initiative (L3) will be working with the Guinea-Bissau Education Board (GBEB), On this program we will be going into International technical partnership, in order to improve learning outcomes in literacy in mathematics, English and Portuguese languages

Other relative Program on Education

* Building school in the rural area
* Help with schooling material in the rural area
* Scholarship for unprivileged ones
* feeding school people in the rural area (with the support of word food program
* And more other.

2. Health Care:
“He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything” – Arabic proverb
In Guinea –Bissau after rapid strides in the health sector since independence. However, various eye opening data from GBHC clearly indicate that access to healthcare is so poor and still remain a challenge.
While the health statistics of rural Guineans continue to be poor, the health status and access to health services of urban areas on the other hand, has also surfaced to be equally deplorable. The country’s poor population, urban areas have less or none government primary health care facilities.
Most communities in Guinea-Bissau, dwellers suffer from adverse health conditions owing to mainly two reasons –first the lack of education and thus lack of awareness; and second the unwillingness to lose a day’s wage in order to reach the nearest medical facility.
The neglect in even the simplest preventive medical treatment usually leads to a more serious ailment and eventually into deaths. The need of the hour is thus a two pronged approach – first to bring quality health care services to doorsteps of the needy and second to promote healthcare awareness and contemporary health care services seeking behavior among the underprivileged.
In such a scenario a mobile medical services delivery system is the most practical mechanism. And in subscription to this view, The Good Samaritan has initiated the Smile on Wheels program. This is a unique mobile hospital program that seeks to address problems of mobility, accessibility and availability of primary health care with a special focus on children and women, in urban slums and remote rural areas.

Hiv/Aids, is one of the area that Good Samaritan is going to focus on, we intend to do this by going into partnership with all International co-sponsors and key partners, including civil society organizations and organizations of people living with HIV/AIDS. Our organization will be working with UN team, Groups on HIV/AIDS, and specific national technical working groups on areas in which the Good Samaritan has a big role within the broad, Implementing Support Plans. For such working groups, The Good Samaritan advocates including all stakeholders, such as health, law enforcement and criminal justice sectors, as well as non-governmental organizations and people living with or affected by AIDS.
Civil society organizations play a vital role in HIV and AIDS prevention treatment and care
Partnering with civil society organizations is seen as particularly important by the Good Samaritan in many parts of the region, the HIV epidemics continue to spread at alarming rates within specific, often marginalized, groups such as people who use drugs, people in prison settings, and sex workers. These vulnerable groups are often denied of their basic human rights to have access to prevention, care and treatment services as well as to voice their specific needs.
Meaningful involvement of people living with HIV
The Good Samaritan believes that civil society organization play a vital role in HIV/AIDS prevention and care among these vulnerable groups by empowering them so their voices are heard when decisions that affect their lives are made. The Good Samaritan will be been actively promoting the meaningful involvement of such organizations, including organizations of people living with HIV/AIDS in the context of GIPA (Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV/ AIDS). It is also working to build the capacity of civil society organizations in helping them to contribute to the development of appropriate policies, strategies and program for people who use drugs, prisoners and potential and actual victims of human trafficking. Intended


Other relative Program on Health Care
*Building hospital in the rural settlement
*Providing drugs for the hospital in the rural settlement
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2. Portable Water - RIGHT TO SUSTAINABLE WATER
Good Samaritan as a non-profit organization, our water Project is to see how to unlocking human potentials by providing sustainable water projects to communities. Adequate and safe water is important for human health and well-being, economic production, and sustainable development. Failure to ensure the safety of drinking water may expose the community to the risk of outbreaks of waterborne and infectious diseases. Although drinking water is a basic human right, many people do not have access to safe and adequate drinking water or proper sanitation facilities. Results revealed that contamination of the source, absence of any disinfection method or insufficient dose, poor maintenance operations, and aging of the networks are significant factors contributing to water contamination during the storage and distribution process. Establishing a comprehensive drinking water system that integrates water supply, quality, and management as well as associated educational programs in order to ensure the safety and sustainability of drinking water supplies which is essential
Access to safe water is foundational to the development of any community. Clean water restores hope and unlocks potential.
As we work to provide water, we're committed to helping people meet their global neighbors and to realize that we all share the same basic needs. We hope to break down stereotypes and the false distinctions between the so-called winners and losers, rich and poor, the needy and charitable, by introducing you to the people we serve with the respect and admiration they rightfully deserve.
We are not heroes. Together with our supporters, we're just trying to be good neighbors by lending a hand to people we know can change the world.
Our project on portable water will involve in helping the communities dig wells, construct small sub-surface dams, protect fresh-water springs, filter surface water, and maintain proper sanitation and hygiene practices
We support and mobilize the community, careful project construction and rigorous long-term follow up and evaluation.
Our efforts at home amplify the voices of the poor, nearly 95% of Guineans who don't have access to clean, safe water - a basic human right.
WITH YOUR HELP
We will tell stories; the story of water, the story of change, and the story of hope. Stories inspire people to raise the money needed to fund this work and to dig wells and install other water projects at schools, medical centers, churches, and other public places in under-developed communities.
As we connect everyone to involved in this specific project, by helping in raising fund. It is our sole responsibility to show where and how every penny is spent. We show every outcome. And when it doesn't work out, we show that too. That's how we share the whole story with you, building a foundation of confidence in the work being done and the impact it has.

3. Auto Agriculture :
Increasing yields, restoring the land, & breaking the yoke of poverty!
We equip Guinea-Bissau farmers with the knowledge to transform their current agriculture systems in a way that lifts people up and that equips and enables the poor to feed them, generate income, and break the yoke of poverty forever.

We equip local farmers, pastors & leaders, using a holistic approach, on how to improve crop yields, care for God's creation; develop a closer relationship with God and how to make a profit by using Kingdom principles in order to raise a self-sustaining, interdependent, and Godly generation.
Seeds of Change in Guinea- Bissau is about equipping rural farmers with the knowledge and skills needed to produce high crop yields in drought conditions.

Millions of dollars are being poured into Guinea -Bissau for food relief every year. When we see the high figures and the amount of aid streaming in, one can’t help but wonder “is it making a difference?” Or are we just perpetuating the dependency syndrome?
Guinea –Bissau is so richly blessed with natural resources, land, good soil, forest, minerals and good climate that there should be no reason that Guinea –Bissau should be name as the poorest Country in the west Africa even in the, and getting poorer and poorer. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been poured into Africa over the last 10 years and the situation just gets worse.
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Why is that Guinea-Bissau so poor? The word of God says “My people perish because of a lack of knowledge.” (Hosea 4:6) We must acknowledge the importance of teaching the poor faithfulness in the agriculture domain before the rest of the country potential can be revealed.

The Solution
Food aid and technological innovative farming only are not the solution to the hunger crises. We must address the spiritual issues as well, which are an enormous part of the Guineans culture.
The Good Samaritan (TGS) is an amazingly relevant, Godly solution to the food security and poverty crisis for the rural poor. TGS is not just a technology but a well-balanced biblical, management and technological solution for the agriculture domain, equipping the poor to come out of poverty with what God has put in their hands and revealing the fullness of His promised abundant life.
Out of the transformation of the heart, through Jesus, comes the renewing of the mind in good management and then the practical outworking in the redemption of the farmland. Guinea-Bissau farmers are now reaping amazingly high yields and are not able to feed their families, not even making gain, non profitable to them self . Through the help of God and with the support of Good Samaritan in Guinea-Bissau, farmers are breaking the yoke of poverty and the dependency syndrome forever. With your help we can end the hunger crisis. Get involve today!

The Good Samaritan We will be training the Guinness, to see Guinea Bissau farmers feed their families through life changing Biblical principles and conservation agriculture techniques which can dramatically increase yields, bring restoration to the land and dissolve the bonds of the curse of poverty within Guinea-Bissau and beyond its borders.
We are committed to equipping Guinea-Bissau farmers with the knowledge to transform their current agriculture systems in a way that lifts people up, and that equips and enables the poor to one day feed themselves. Every man and woman has hopes and dreams. Let's help the poor realize theirs!

The levels of food insecurity are overwhelmingly high across the African continent. Subsistence farmers account for approximately 85% of the African population, who are living undernourished and degraded lives. The current yields of these farmers are well below their family’s requirement which necessitates the importation of millions of tons of grain every year.
Research has shown that the average Africa family struggles a minimum of two to four months a year to get food for their families. In some locations the struggle is up to Eight months. The average African family needs approximately 1250 kg of rice annually to survive and with the annual production levels as low as 300 kg per acre in places; it is a very real shortfall crisis, which has to be supplemented by either food aid or other forms of income and food intake.

Due to poor stewardship of the land, the environment is suffering as well through soil erosion, siltation, overgrazing and deforestation. In Africa, soil erosion due to poor agricultural land use practices accounts for an estimated annual average soil loss of 22 tons per acre (55 tons per hectare) and up to 100 tons per acre (250 tons per hectare). These huge topsoil losses through sheet erosion, which is where the most nutrient rich soil is found, result in depleted soil fertility and poor structure, which in turn leads to erosion scarring in the forms of gullies, exposing bare lifeless parent material, which is even more susceptible to erosion.

Other relative Programs on Agriculture
1. We shall be helping in providing seeds
2. We shall be organizing seminars and workshop, training farmers how to plan their seed how to apply vitalize and other thing they suppose to know about farming etc.

5. Disaster Management: The Good Samaritan, with a mission to lay a helping hand and brining Smile back, responds to the call of humanity in times of emergencies like natural calamities and disasters. Floods or Earthquake, Smile has been there. The Good Samaritan will there to give a helping hand with a Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation Policy, wherein it ties up with local NGO's and institutions to enable genuine and effective responses to critical local needs and realities. Relief & rehabilitation for children and women during any epidemic outbreak such as cholera etc.
Responding to Natural Disasters
Part of our project as the Good Samaritan. Is call The Good Samaritan hoping program we responding to natural disasters to supplying health facilities and also to implementing programs. Making them to hope for future departs what just happen that, this program is going to be nation wide to provide resources where they are needed most. Our strategy is to provide emergency support leading to long-term health programs addressing gaps and needs. Our emergency missions provide medical care to people who need it with volunteer doctors and nurses, update the knowledge and skills of local providers, help to rehabilitate health facilities, and provide essential medicines and supplies.
An integral part of The Good Samaritan hope programs, is to promote high quality health care around the nation by supplying much needed medical equipment and pharmaceuticals. Our volunteer doctors and nurses will be work with local health officials to select product and rigorously follow protocols to ensure that supplied commodities are properly used and the service providers are properly trained on their use. The Good Samaritan programs will be supply chain management team handles the receipt, warehousing, and distribution of these commodities using state-of-the-art technology and systems.

6. Human Right

WOMEN’S RIGHT
A large percentage of women in Guinea-Bissau and many other countries are denied an education by the daily realities of poverty, child slavery, and conflict, discrimination, early and forceful while girls hold the power to help break the cycle of poverty. Some of the most important activities of our women right program include:
1)To create awareness about violence against women
2)To fight against any kind of violence against women be it beating, rape, eve-teasing or murder.
3) To seek to change unequal power relations between men and women in Guinea-Bissau with focus on increasing women’s participation in decision making processes. Bringing points of view of women into light using different mediums like photography, video, books, games, campaigns, workshops and more.
4) To fight for the rights of women and giving identities to abandoned widows. Most women in Africa who lost their husbands are treated wrongly by the family of the husband; they are made to suffer by confiscating what the husband left behind for the wife to bring up the children. Some children are made to drop out of school because their mother couldn’t afford their school fees
5) Women education campaign. Education helps girls and women to know their rights and to gain confidence to claim them. With education, skills and the right support, girls can make choices over their own future and be a huge part of creating lasting change. Girls who have been educated are likely to marry later and to have smaller and healthier families. Educated women can recognize the importance of health care and know how to seek it for themselves and their children
6) Campaign against early and forceful marriages. Every day, girls are taken out of school and forced into work, or married off to strangers where they risk isolation and abuse. Missing out on school can mark the end of a girl having any choice over her own future. This isn’t fair, it isn’t right and it’s also a huge waste of potential.
What will The Good Samaritan help to do in Guinea-Bissau
Each time Political tension erupts, it claim lives and bring back the system to a stagnant point Because of the erupted political crisis many women are left to become widows, without anyone or means of supporting their family. Even the government has not been able to address or bring a lasting solution to this problem
Today in, Guinea-Bissau, the prolonged years of civil crisis have created a legacy of violence, ruined infrastructure and wide-scale corruption. Do the women still have hope for the future?
With your help and that of the foreign partners of Good Samaritan, we are going to work together to help in rebuilding many lives in Guinea-Bissau which include direct financial aid, rights awareness classes, job-skills training and emotional support. The one-year program is developed for Guinean’s special challenges and demands, and includes vocational training that helps women earn an income and support themselves, through:
Poultry production - working in cooperatives, women in our Poultry Marketing Initiative process and sell poultry to meet the high local demand.
Agriculture — women are taught to plant and harvest crops for sale at local markets and for household consumption.
Other courses include:
• Piggery
• Trading

7. Youth Career Model:
THE YOUTH CAREER INITIATIVE MODEL
The Youth Career Initiative
The Good Samaritan Youth Career Initiative (TGSYCI) will be equipping vulnerable youths with the technical, vocational, entrepreneurship and life skills needed to develop sustainable livelihoods. These program targets school leavers, ages 17 to 25, with particular attention given to young males, who are currently unemployed, under-employed, lack the skills to participate in an increasingly service-oriented economy, or are unable to successfully launch and sustain small business enterprises. Participants will receive job training and placement services and are supported in serving as positive agents of change in their communities

This career initiative is a six-month educational program that trains both the urban privileged and underprivileged adolescent youth in Portuguese Proficiency, Basic Computer Education and Soft Skills for enhancing their prospects of employment in the fast expanding retail, hospitality and many other sectors .The purpose is to empower young participants to make informed career choices and realize the options available to them, enabling them to improve their employability and enhance their long-term social and economic opportunities.

The Good Samaritan is setting up training workshops and will have a unique partnership with the international hotel industry, whereby participating properties provide the human, operational and training resources to deliver the program.

TARGET GROUP

Eligible candidates are typically aged between 17-25 years-old, who have recently finished high school, are able to make a full-time commitment to the program, and are considered to be at-risk of exploitation.

Suitable participants should also be able to show a willingness to learn and a desire for self-development but have no other means to improve their lives; this means that they have limited or no opportunities to find decent, legitimate employment or continue in further education.
Each country program is tailored to suit the local needs of its young people – TGSCI is used as a tool to tackle or prevent issues such as youth unemployment, social exclusion, poverty, and exploitation