About Us 

The Good Samaritan Association (GSA) is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization registered under the Societies Act in June 2002, with headquarters in Selibe-Phikwe. Established on 22 February 2000, GSA was born out of the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) Church HIV/AIDS Committee formed in 1997 after the National Sisters’ Conference in Selibe-Phikwe.

Article 1(c) of our constitution affirms that GSA is the social wing of the Apostolic Faith Mission in Botswana. While we are a registered entity with independent governance, we continue to view AFM as our parent body. Our roots in the AFM Sisters’ Union Department give us a Christlike DNA that guides our vision and mission.

Our Mission

To promote health and develop the skills of people socially, economically, physically, and spiritually through life skills provision and community capacity building.

Our Vision

Good Samaritan Association envisions a healthier and liberated generation, empowered socially, economically, physically, and spiritually through life skills and community capacity building.

Core Business

To promote health and develop the skills of people socially, economically, physically, and spiritually through life skills provision and community capacity building.

Core Business

The Core business of Good Samaritan is to empower communities in order to improve their quality of life considering aspects of health, life skills, sustainable livelihoods and psychosocial support. The organization’s main population segment of interest is Youth, Children and women with special consideration for both spatially, economically and socially marginalized communities.

• On health, the organization’s interest is to uplift the communities’ mental and physical health and wellness through promotion of behavior change and adoption of better health attracting behaviors. This change and adoption of new norms will be in the form of knowledge/information, attitudes and practice. Hence the organization disseminates health information through peer education; promotes change of negative attitudes through employment of community based approaches and practices through psychosocial support structures such as support groups, provision of recreational and rehabilitation facilities including counseling.

• On provision of Lifeskills the organization promotes aspects of child upbringing, morality, promotion of family values as the most important unit in building better welfare of humans

• Sustainable Livelihoods - the organization empowers communities especially women and youth to build sustainable livelihoods for themselves and their families  

• Support for vulnerable people i.e. abused women and men, marginalized communities as need may arise, GSA supports children with learning disabilities with various psychosocial support services such as early assessment of the learning disability, parental involvement in children education, promotion of early childhood development in rural areas.