Vision, Mission, Values & Strategic Goals

EDA was founded with the sole aim of helping the people of Edo State to overcome poverty, improve their health and achieve good education.

Today, with your support, EDA wants to offer this help to the people of Edo State to improve the quality of their lives.

Our Vision

Our ultimate goal is for all people of Edo State to live free of poverty, and have access to the basic necessities of life.

Our Mission

To help the people of Edo State individually and collectively, as and when they need it, in order to reduce poverty, ill-health, illiteracy, and enable a brighter future.

Our Strategic Goals

Sustainable Opportunities: To create or support sustainable opportunities or activities to reduce poverty in Edo State, in line with the UNICEF and UN Sustainable Development Goals to eradicate poverty in all forms.

Partnership Working: To work with other agencies for safe and secure communities in Edo State.

Personal Development: Raise people’s awareness of healthy lifestyles and the impacts of environmental sanitation and diseases on health.

Service Provision: Provision of personnel, basic health facilities, equipment, medicines and vaccinations to increase people’s life expectancies and reduce premature deaths in Edo communities

Empowering People: To empower the people of Edo State to find their strengths and potentials and support them to bring those potentials into reality for a better future.

Our Values

Our values underpin the way we work and interact with each other, and how we help the people of Edo State.

Partnerships

Partnership

Working with others and valuing their contributions to the work of our organisation and the communities of Edo State

Empowerment

Empowerment

Enabling the people we serve to realise their full potential and capacity to achieve their own goals in life.

Ethical

Ethical

Espousing what is right, ensuring that our conducts conform to high moral standards and principles, and upholding the moral consciences of our wider communities.

Community

Community

Enhancing the life of the communities of Edo State

Integrity

Integrity

Truthful in the discharge of our commitment to our values, people we serve and to those who support us

Fairness

Fairness

Being fairmindedly objective in our approaches to secure social justice, equality of access and opportunities for all the people of Edo State