Mission. Vision. Values.

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Milly Smith

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Mission. Vision. Values.

As a nonprofit humanitarian organization, Aghsan Foundation’s work covers all aspects of IDPs, returnees, refugee issues based on humanitarian principles and human rights. Our overarching mission is to assist and protect Iraqi people and to empower them towards a better future. We strive to provide sustainable solutions for refugees, displaced people and host communities, coupled with the objective of enabling those we assist to live dignified lives.

Our Mission

Promote and lead the development of agriculture-based economy and environment sectors in Iraq in partnership and collaboration with other partners.

Our Vision

A dignified life for all displaced.

Our Values

Humanitarian approach

The right to a dignified life takes precedence over politics and principles. Aghsan Foundation insists on the right of the individual to receive humanitarian aid and on our right and duty to provide such aid, whenever possible, regardless of political circumstance. This means that our advocacy will sometimes be subordinate to our duty to help save lives, and that we will always provide assistance, regardless of whether such an effort could be interpreted politically. Moreover, in all of our interactions we insist on the dignity and autonomous right of the individual to use their abilities in shaping their lives as they see fit.

Respect

Our belief in the equal rights of all human beings. Aghsan Foundation takes a rights-based approach to its work. We work to ensure that all people in distress can enjoy the rights, protections, and opportunities guaranteed to them in applicable conventions and laws, and seek to combat discrimination in all forms. In Iraq and elsewhere, we work to ensure that authorities and the international community fully adhere to their responsibilities towards people in distress, and we assist until these authorities are able to manage their responsibilities independently.

Inclusion

Aghsan Foundation wishes to carry out its initiatives in a climate of respect and collaboration with the people we are trying to help, thereby ensuring that they are empowered by the interaction. This means that we ask beneficiaries for their consensual participation in the planning and implementation of interventions, as well as their perspectives in assessing the outcomes. Our collaborations with people in distress ultimately seek to utilize and strengthen their ability to cope without assistance in the future.

Honesty and transparency
Aghsan Foundation is accountable to the people we help, those that support us, and those with whom we collaborate.This means that we are honest and open about what we do and about the choices we make, and if a situation may exceed our ability to provide help. We strive for successful and responsible joint efforts with all beneficiaries, donors, partners and others.