Vision

Self-sustaining communities that are empowered to safeguard their rights in every aspect of their lives.

Mission

"We work through study circles, training for transformation and access to information in order to enhance capacities of local communities to facilitate sustainable development."

Core Principles

The ABDO Strategy is guided by the following key theoretical frameworks:

• Leave No One Behind (LNOB)
• Intersectionality
• Working within the socio-ecology of the primary beneficiaries
• Working Gender-transformatively
• The Human Rights Based Approach
• Do No Harm
• Working with the ecology of our individual target groups (the ecological approach).

Core Objectives

• (a) To set up community libraries, facilitate the establishment of study circles and promotion of literacy in marginalized rural communities, mines and farm communities.
• (b) To enhance the capacity of communities through needs based training and encouraging the formation of study circles for literacy, information sharing and skills acquisition for sustainable development.
• (c) To promote HIV/AIDS, gender and environmental awareness and sensitization in partnership with relevant agencies through the organization of workshops and distribution of relevant literature.