Resilient and Flourishing Societies
The Five Strategic Pillars
The first pillar is ethical, which relates to personal and institutional change towards dislodging corruption through promoting the principle of fairness and ethical stewardship.
The academic pillar concerns a critical and thorough understanding of social, cultural, political, religious, moral and economic realities of a given society through conducting problem-solving research projects.
The economic pillar concerns value driven poverty alleviation and wealth creation schemes modelled on ethical entrepreneurship and interdependence with special focus on women and young people.
The religious pillar takes into account the fact that Africa’s socio-economic and political plight is closely interwoven with religion… SOPHOS AFRICA will seek to contribute to the promotion of freedom of religion, the definition of the role of religion in the public space and efforts to overcome misinformation that leads to extremism and violence.
The political pillar concerns challenging policies and practices that promote the 'us' versus 'them' mentality by putting the interests of a particular ethnic group before that of others.
3Cs and their Interconnected Functions
Critical Understanding
Culture and Value Change
Capacity Development & Social Movement
Dynamic Network
Of
Change Agents
Creation Of Wealth
WHAT WE DO
Organisational Description
SOPHOS AFRICA is a new non-profit organisation. Following the conception of its vision, it carried out ground activities in 2021 including defining strategic directions, sharing the vision to stakeholders and partners, developing governance, and registering the organisation. SOPHOS AFRICA is now a legal entity in Ethiopia, the USA and UK. Each entity has its own governing body. SOPHOS AFRICA has also established non-governing Advisory Councils in Europe and North America.
SOPHOS AFRICA
Resilient and Flourishing Society Through a
Critical Mass of Changed Minds and Lives
Problem Statement
SOPHOS AFRICA seeks to respond to an intricate web of societal ills that, along with other problems, have kept nearly half a billion Africans in a
precarious existence. Its response is designed to be a further contribution to the already existing efforts of governmental and non-governmental
organisations.
A Critical Mass of Change Agents (18%)
- Values and principles
- Transformed mind-sets, policies and
ethical practices - Transformed mind-sets, policies and
ethical practices
Minority opinion: change can be achieved
Mission
The mission of SOPHOS AFRICA is, for the public benefit and in line with Judeo-Christian values and principles, to prevent or relieve poverty and address factors that contribute to poverty.
Core Values
Truth, love, integrity, mutuality, reciprocity, sacrifice, and accountability.