Our Core values and Goals
Core values:
We adhere to these core values at all times:
To deliver the highest quality services that respect the dignity of each person served employees, volunteers, and visitors.
To demonstrate compassionate, caring attitudes and achieve consistency higher levels of service by responding to each individual in a timely, professional, and courteous manner.
To sustain positive, caring, supportive safely-first environment.
We are committed to being as inclusive organisation where all people are treated fairly and recognized for their individuality.
We believe in recognizing, understanding, and respecting differences among all people. Every individual in this organisation has an on-going responsibility to advance diversity.
We will hold ourselves to the highest moral and ethical standards of conduct.
We are responsible not only to our clients but to our funders and the community at large.
Every members of the community without any exception whatsoever shall be entitled to receive compassionate and supportive care irrespective of race, sex, religion, ethnic or social origin, gender identity / expression or sexual identity/expression.
Collaboration:
-We at Seed Foundation South Africa will work together as professionals and with the community to ensure our clients receive the best possible services.
Innovation:
-We will continue to be highly creative and strive to connect new ideas with social realities to develop and implement programs and services which best meet community needs.
Development:
-We will continue to develop sufficient resources to enable us to meet service pressures. We will accomplish this by remaining diligent and responsive to both our funders, donors and to our individual supporters.
Genuine:
-Sincere, trustworthy, and reliable. Operating with integrity, being ethical, and treating others with respect is at the heart of Human Touch’s culture.
Exceptional:
-Committed to creating exceptional experiences that delight our beneficiaries and communities. At Human Touch, good enough is not good enough.
Involved:
-Inclusive, open, and actively engaged with to beneficiaries, staff, volunteers, partners and the communities we serve. Young people are our greatest asset.
Goals and Outcomes:
As we teach individuals the skills to live a positive lifestyle, we work towards the following:
To improve overall family cohesion and communication.
To reduce the likelihood that children, youth and adults will engage in risky behavior.
To improve an individual’s relationships in schools, at homes and in the workplace.
To promote positive activities and engagement in families, neighborhoods and community.
To reduce the incidence of substance abuse and misuse in the community.
To engage and empower individuals and families.
Strive to provide assessment, prevention, treatment and support services to strengthen and empower families, youth and children.