Humanitarian International Voluntary Association is a Non-Governmental
Organisation (NGO) established in 2008 whose core mandate is to empower
marginalised communities, youth and women, vulnerable & disadvantaged
children, and persons with special needs within the pastoralists’ North-Eastern
region. The formation of the organisation was prompted by socio-economic
and cultural challenges that face the 21st century amidst Violent Extremism,
technological advancement, global climatic changes, and political
dispensation of the new world order.
HIVA was formed by a group of conscious persons who have witnessed, exposed
and experienced the real challenges of development dynamics and hence would
like to share the same with other likeminded partners and individuals and make real
change by overcoming the myriad social injustices that affect humanity. HIVA seeks to
promote human interaction, sharing, understanding, peace, social solidarity,
empowerment and love between human beings and their environment
through voluntarism and service to humanity.