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ABOUT US

The mission of the Social Integration and Community Development Association (SICDA) is to promote social integration and community development, in order to improve the quality of life of people belonging to local communities and in particular to immigrant communities and to promote sustainable human development especially in the areas of health, education, social integration, environment and social culture and social competence.

MISSION

Social Integration and Community Development Association (SICDA) will:

  1. promote social integration and community development, in order to improve the quality of life of people belonging to local communities and in particular to immigrant communities;
  2. promote sustainable human development especially in the areas of health, education, social integration, environment and social culture and social competence;
  3. assist immigrants and immigrant families to adopt American culture of law, find their place on the labor market, support their entrepreneurship, help obtain English language proficiency, help obtain a proper place to live their lives and a community to belong so that they can become loyal, creative and satisfied members of the American society who enjoy a decent quality of live reflected by good health, longevity, good education, decent standard of life as well as individual and social creativity;
  4. promote social creativity and heuristic thinking to solve existing problems in the society and in particular problems of social integration of immigrants into the mainstream of American life;
  5. Provide vocational training for people seeking new jobs or seeking to re-train as well as cultural and language programs for foreign students;
  6. combat all forms of social neglectance, xenophobia, racism, intolerance, social exclusion and prejudice and in particular against immigrants and immigrant’s successful integration;
  7. promote social and cultural understanding and present the best of American and other social cultures;
  8. promote positive policies, self-help efforts, community alliances and cooperation among diverse ethnic groups to fight anti-immigrant sentiments, social exclusion, prejudice and discrimination;
  9. contribute to strengthening groups and links between different communities in order to increase the social integration and recognition of basic universal values that join people and communities together;
  10. value the ethic and cultural diversity of the communities and we aim to reflect and celebrate them as well as genuine dialog and collaboration between them in the aim of reflecting and strengthening the unity of American post-ethnic and post-racial society;
  11. work with the leaders of local communities, businesses and ethnic and religious leaders on the issues related to the community development and social integration;
  12. educate social leaders and popularize knowledge and instruction on how to become a social leader;
  13. promote the idea of a good sociocratic society, sociocratic leadership and importance of individual empowerment as well as the important role of the dialog-oriented policies in strengthening this type of a society and leadership;
  14. enhance economic development and individual entrepreneurship;
  15. act for relief of the poor, the distressed or the underprivileged;
  16. act to lessen the burdens of the government;
  17. act to lessen the neighborhood tension;
  18. act to reverse community deterioration;
  19. act to diminish prejudice and discrimination;
  20. act to defend human and civil rights secured by law;
  21. engage in any other activities which are not inconsistent with Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and applicable state law.

 

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