Essential Services

SHOFCO is dedicated to providing slum communities with the tools to create bright futures for themselves. Our community programs provide resources to further economic opportunity and advance human rights, creating space for individuals to pave personal paths out of poverty.

We empower the community through valuable public resources including gender-based violence safe houses, the SUN Magazine, and community centers which serve as meeting places and house libraries and computer labs. In 2022, 241,370 individuals utilized SHOFCO community libraries.

These programs allow individuals and families to make the transformation from a mode of ‘everyday survival’ to one of ‘planning for the future.’ Families are able to send more children to school for longer periods of time, and increased earnings and savings contribute to improved nutrition and better living conditions, ultimately translating to a lower incidence of illness and a healthier, more productive life.

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