has no own website, but is named on Wiser Earth:
Find:
- Address: ASSEFA, 279,Avvai Shanmugam Road, Royapettah, Chennai 600 014, Tamil Nadu, India;
- Contact: phone: 91-044-8275843, fax: 91-044-8275763, e-mail.
About: ASSEFA is a rural development organisation working in 3800 villages in six states, benefiting about 2,50,000 families with socio-economic programmes such as agriculture, dairy, micro-enterprises, social-credit, basic education, child labour rehabilitation, community-health, habitat promotion, environmental protection and vocational training focusing women, children, landless and marginal farmers.
Example:
- Lathur East, which is about 50 miles south of Chennai, formerly Madras, is the second ASSEFA community scheme of its kind in this area. It is a partnership between 1100 disadvantaged families in 25 villages and ASSEFA. Ten of the 25 villages are inhabited by Scheduled Castes, formerly Untouchables.
- In Lathur East nearly 9096 of the population are small farmers or agricultural labourers, adult literacy is 37%. The project`s overall objective is to raise the income of the poorest households to the local average of £250 per year, which will, for many people, double their current level.
ASSEFA`s approach isto develop making strong village committees and women`s groups. The unity and strength achieved through these groups enables villagers, with ASSEFA`s help, to plan and carry out a range of development options. The plans include:
- 55 improved wells
- pipeline irrigation for 150 acres
- 140 acres made cultivable
- 25 modernised community bullock carts
- 700 cows/buffaloes for women`s milk marketing co-op
- 210 small businesses
- women`s and youth training schemes
- halving infant mortality rate
- ensuring drinking water for all villages
- 90% children attending government schools.
All funds are recycled within the villages through ASSEFA`s rural bank, which now has deposits of f150,000.
Find them also:
on Yellowpages;
on India socials;
on HotFrog India;
on UNCCD;
and in the Google-book: The management of non-governmental development organizations, by David Lewis, 2001, 242 pages.