{"id":1830,"date":"2009-07-12T02:11:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T00:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:00:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:00:28","slug":"association-for-sarva-seva-farms-assefa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1830","title":{"rendered":"Association for Sarva Seva Farms ASSEFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>has no own website, but is named on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiserearth.org\/organization\/view\/f3044756bb06fdd8d283e3719d26690b\">Wiser Earth<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Find:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Address: ASSEFA, 279,Avvai Shanmugam Road, Royapettah, Chennai 600 014, Tamil Nadu, India;<\/li>\n<li>Contact: phone: 91-044-8275843, fax: 91-044-8275763, <a href=\"mailto:assefa@md2.vsnl.net.in\">e-mail<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 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.<\/li>\n<li> 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 \u00a3250 per year, which will, for many people, double their current level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>55 improved wells<\/li>\n<li>pipeline irrigation for 150 acres<\/li>\n<li>140 acres made cultivable<\/li>\n<li>25 modernised community bullock carts<\/li>\n<li>700 cows\/buffaloes for women`s milk marketing co-op<\/li>\n<li>210 small businesses<\/li>\n<li>women`s and youth training schemes<\/li>\n<li>halving infant mortality rate<\/li>\n<li>ensuring drinking water for all villages<\/li>\n<li>90% children attending government schools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All funds are recycled within the villages through ASSEFA`s rural bank, which now has deposits of f150,000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find them also<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>on <a href=\"http:\/\/yellowpages.sulekha.com\/chennai\/community-social-services\/non-profit-organizations\/royapettah\/association-for-sarva-seva-farms-assefa.htm\">Yellowpages<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p>on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiasocial.org\/cgi\/meminfo.asp?orgname=ASSEFA+-+Association+For+Sarva+Seva+Farms\">India socials<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p>on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiasocial.org\/cgi\/meminfo.asp?orgname=ASSEFA+-+Association+For+Sarva+Seva+Farms\">HotFrog<\/a> India;<\/p>\n<p>on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unccd.int\/ngo\/accreditationDB\/institutionDetails.php?id=253\">UNCCD<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p>and in the Google-book: <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.co.uk\/books?id=HFnrz-6k_MIC&amp;pg=PA72&amp;lpg=PA72&amp;dq=Association+for+Sarva+Seva+Farms&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=RGI12NHv9l&amp;sig=baoYJ6TnE0zMz5euPBwIjCih9Lc&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=CWxYSsWKM4uImwPNlNjdCQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=7\">The management of non-governmental development organizations<\/a>, by David Lewis, 2001, 242 pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1830\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Association for Sarva Seva Farms ASSEFA&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16127,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/16127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}