JOINT ACTION AGAINST VULNERABILITY

Introduction
Joint Action Against Vulnerability (JAAV) is an established non-profit, nongovernmental organization by which founder members and others voluntarily will meet, communicate, discuss, plan and implement various activities to be carried out and or undertaken by the community aiming at serving the community against the risk of exposure to threat and life shocks  (in other words vulnerability)

 Vision

To be the leading organization that would jointly coordinate efforts of different stakeholders in empowering communities in fighting vulnerability   through prevention, preparedness, and mitigation measures in all aspects regardless of their age and ethnic groupings.

 Mission

Recognizing the fact that vulnerability is the characterizing feature of the people living in poverty, the organization’s mission is to empower communities through research, dissemination, publicize, and implementation of sustainable community based development programs which aims at prevention, preparedness and mitigation against vulnerability in a diversified form depending on the context and the group served.

Major Objective

To mobilize collective efforts so as to empower and increase the capacity of the most vulnerable people at the grassroots to Identify and utilize the opportunities they already have so as to fight against vulnerability and any sense of powerlessness which expose them to shock.

TARGET GROUP

People who JAAV targets are those  who are extremely vulnerable at the grassroots both men and women regardless of their tribe and age whose day to day life is characterized by vulnerable situation due to the disadvantaged position they have hence they are easily exposed to shock.

The most vulnerable groups in society will include;

• Street Children both orphans and non-orphans
• Underpriviledged Persons with disabilities 
• Underpriviledged Youth with unreliable incomes
• Drug addicts and alcoholics

                                                         ''Together We Can''


CONTACT INFORMATION
P. O. Box 11983,
Dar-Es-Salaam,
Tanzania.
Mobile Phone: 
+255767062020
+255713209140
+255789775677
e-mail:
jaavorganization@gmail.com
jaavtz@yahoo.com