Mission, Vission and Values

ABOUT US

Candlelight for Environment, Education & Health is a non-profit organization founded in 1995. Its mission focuses on addressing humanitarian and development challenges, particularly in underserved and marginalized communities in Somaliland, as well as in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya. The organization works on various fronts, including environmental protection, livelihood support, provision education, and health aiming to improve the quality of life and foster sustainable development in these regions.

Our Mission

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

Our Values

Candlelight is committed to upholding these core institutional and ethical values:

• Integrity: Honesty (including transparency and accountability), trust and openness to our stakeholders through commitment to delivering results and taking responsibility for our actions. 
• 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. 
• 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. 
• 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.