Goshen is a Multi-Sectoral Social and Ecological Impact Society operating in the academic-ecumenical-policy interface, anchoring its Mission on building Institutions, Systems and Processes that will deliver Social Justice and promote Environmental Sustainability with special focus on Urban Informal Settlements and Rural Settlements.

Our Raison d’être

Goshen’s Raison d’être is the commitment to address the fundamental question at the heart of national development, namely: Why is the socio-economic system we have adopted at independence so massively able to produce wealth and opportunities for a small group of Namibians on the one hand, yet, the very same system is glaringly unable to use that wealth to banish poverty and misery for a greater majority of Namibia’s on the other hand? This critical inquiry is the driving force behind Goshen’s existence.