- Democracy and community development
- Human rights
- Youth and education
SYFS mission is to work towards sustainable human development through:
• The development of Palestinian human resources
• Institutional building
• Networking and cooperating with International and regional organizations.
SYFS Objectives
SYF work recognizes the necessity of creating independent, self-reliant initiatives that achieve sustainable development and incorporate values of self-sufficiency and self-empowerment. With these goals in mind SYF pursues the following objectives:
• Development of Palestinian human resources
• Creation of sustainable Palestinian Community Development
• Enhancement of Palestinian women’s skills, knowledge and opportunities
• Increase Palestinian awareness of democratic and participation issues
• Empowerment of marginalized sectors within Palestinian society
• Enhancement of Palestinian self-reliance through training and income-generating projects
• Strengthen of cooperation and coordination with other Palestinian and international organizations in related fields.
• Increase the self-reliance, efficiency professionalism and effectiveness of Palestinian NGOs and grassroots organization.
SYFS Activities:
SYFS benefits from an extensive experience on awareness raising, capacity building and communities motivation. Since its establishment, SYFS focuses in the following fields:
o Education through a positive influence on the younger generation attitudes, values and skills.
o Capacity building of youth.
o Awareness raising and advocacy campaigns to empower participation of marginalized categories such as youth and women in civic issues.
o Direct social work that provides counseling and conflict resolution services on the individual and familial and community levels.
o Civil work to promote and encourage citizens' participation in decision-making.
• SYFS will contribute to the networks through providing assistant in cooperation and coordination with other Palestinian and international organizations in related fields.
• SYFS will present its success stories to the network as they will be needing and inspiring examples to the organizations in the network.
• SYFS will contribute to develop the human resources of the NGOs within the network different fields.
Joining the network will add a great value to our society as the network will create chances to share the different organizational experiences and cultures in addition to opening new gates for coordinating new projects and ideas.