Mois : octobre 2009

AFPRO as a secular socio-technical development organization with Christian inspiration visualizes itself as working to enable the rural poor – including women and men belonging to small and marginal farmers and the landless, dalits, tribal people, fisher folk and unemployed youth – to move towards sustainable development, through and overall increase in their knowledge and skills in areas that directly affect their standard and quality of life. It visualizes itself as an organization which over the next decade will enable the marginalized rural groups to achieve enhanced socio-economic and personal status in society through appropriate technologies for the management of natural resources … (about 1/2 /vision).

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About 2/2 /Mission: … AFPRO dedicates itself to its mission of alleviating rural poverty by promoting and working through voluntary organizations; with a focus on enabling the marginalized and weaker sections of rural society to participate in the process of rural development by strengthening their resource base and capabilities through improved knowledge and skills, both in the technical and socio-economic development areas.

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AFPRO was established in 1966 by Christian development organizations in response to the Bihar-Uttar Pradesh-Maharashtra drought, as a non-governmental organization that would provide technical support for development and rehabilitation work.  Continuer la lecture de « Action for Food Production AFPRO »

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on NGOs INDIA (server failed): Purpose: Education, Rehabilitation, Women’s issues; Aim/Objective/Mission: AIAMSS is basically a women’s organisation working for the upliftment of widows, poor and aged women. It gives shelter to the victims of dowry system and provides them training in cutting and tailoring enabling them to be self dependent.

on Wiser Earth:
Activities: Educational; Type: Non Governmental Organization; Scope: regional;
Phone: 91-11-2482580; Headquarters: 34/346-347, Trilokpuri, New Delhi 110091, India.

on Click India: Contact: Sita Bhagat; AIAMSS is basically a women’s organisation working for the upliftment of widows, poor and aged women. It gives shelter to the victims of dowry system and provides them training in cutting and tailoring enabling them to be self dependent.

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Linked with Challengling the Banks, and with Danny Schechter – USA.

• We live in challenging and increasingly hard times in the United States. Over the last few decades, the American economy has drastically changed. Wages for working people have not risen in 30 years, the vast majority of families need two incomes to get by, and after working for 40 years, few are assured a livable pension.
• We have witnessed the once strong American economy and American worker become the most indebted in the world. The average American is in debt to a greater degree than any time in history, while in a half century the nation has gone from the greatest creditor nation in history to the largest debtor nation in history.
• Most recently, a meltdown of Wall Street and the banking sector has seen 401ks drop in value and, most tellingly, a government deaf to the plight of average Americans and cries of economists immediately pour trillions of dollars in the coffers of Wall Street and the banks. At the same time, the floors of Congress are turned into a trading pit, with lobbyists of mega-corporations stacked outside in the halls fighting to fund reelection committees, so they can get the best deal … (full text The Idea).

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About: Our mission is to transform the public’s relationship to the monetary and economic policies that govern our lives. Our platform is structural reform of the financial industry. We will change the American financial industry from one that skirts and dictates laws to reap false profits for the few at the expense of the many into one that takes its proper place as a facilitator of general prosperity. We demand a financial industry that does not actively work against the interests of the public but that is stable and secure, prudent in risk, and manageable in failure.  Continuer la lecture de « A New Way Forward.org »

… Amar Jyoti is a voluntary organization rendering rehabilitative services to persons with disabilities through inclusive and integrated education, medical care, vocational training, child guidance and self-employment since 1981 … (full text about).

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Address: Amar Jyoti Charitable Trust, Karkardooma, Vikas Marg, Delhi 110092, India;
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Outreach: The Community Based Rehabilitation project has been completed with positive community development in 30 urban slums of Delhi.  The services are continued through various other projects of Institution Based Rehabilitation & Community Based Rehabilitation at the centre. Continuer la lecture de « Amar Jyoti Charitable Trust »

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NGOs INDIA: Purpose: Disadvantaged communities, Employment, Human Rights, Poverty. Aim/Objective/Mission: APSERI involves advancement of disadvantaged groups in society including women, children and aged person; protection of human rights; strengthening of democratic institutions for socio economic development through peoples’ participation; reduction of poverty, unemployment and inequalities of income and wealth and increasing transparency in political, economic and social systems. E-mail.

on Wiser Earth: Contact /Name: Dr. Hari Goyal, Director
Activities: Research
Headquarters: P O Box 10518, JNU Post Office, New Delhi 110067, Delhi, India;
Phone: 91-11-6108512, Fax: 91-11-6171506,  Continuer la lecture de « Asia Pacific Socio-Economic Research Institute APSERI »