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ADHAR
ADHAR’S WAY OF LIFE:
To enable the poor, marginalized, deprived and other excluded sections to realize their collective potentialities and respond to the challenges of endemic poverty and human rights violations, through collective and affirmative actions leading to sustainable development, self-reliance and economic independence for ascertaining a life with dignity.
ADHAR was started by a self-motivated group of intellectuals to work in Western Orissa in the year 1992, with the spirit of volunteerism and Gandhian ideology and spirit. ADHAR selected its areas of operation such as Loisingha Block of Balangir District and western Orissa at large, this geographical area is complex, diverse and risk-prone and is considered among the most backward regions of the country, popularly known as KBK region of Orissa. This region of the rural India have had remained neglected by the state and the mainstream development agencies in the country for generations; and development initiatives by few agencies could not have made any considerable impacts in the quality of lives and livelihoods of the people even after nearly six decades of Indian independence. And the ADHAR had born considering the challenges of the region to reckon with.
ADHAR has had involved itself, since its inception, in promoting the spirit of volunteerism among the local youths and has been supporting various local youth clubs and community based organizations to work for a common goal of empowering the rural poor and the marginalized people in the region.
ADHAR has been extending various information and services to the socio-economically weaker and marginalized sections with a focus on the schedule castes and the scheduled tribe, Dalit for enabling them to realize the causes and effects of their deprivations and to assert their rights on their own. There have been constant efforts on part of the Organization to take sides with these sections of the society to ensure their rights constitutional as well as human and claim the same rights from the state. Women’s participations in all the programmes have ultimately been leading to their empowerment, which has remained as one of the key features of the processes of people-centered participatory development of the organization during the last 13 years of its initiations and interventions to ensure self-sufficiency and self-reliance in the villages.
Organisational Strategies: ADHAR believes that people have a right to a just and equal society. We are committed to making that right a reality for the people on the margins of Indian societies. We work in common cause with people who are poor and have been denied their rights to understand, to challenge and change their conditions and positions in the society. We do this by clubbing-together the practical work with advocacy. ADHAR believes its work is strengthened by working in alliance with community based organizations and people’s organizations to achieve its goals.
The most important operational strategy of ADHAR has remained in identifying itself with the sections of the population that the organization works with and to let the same sections to identify themselves with ADHAR, as well.
Set up over 13 years ago as the operational arm of a group of Intellectuals to provide a practical and feasible mitigation measures to the natural disaster in Balangir district of India, it has developed and matured, over a period of time, as an actively operational NGO in its own right over the last decade. ADHAR's mission is to work alongside some of the poorest and most disadvantaged people in remote and inaccessible parts of western Orissa to eliminate structural inequalities and impoverishments, ensure their equal access to economic, political, social, cultural and intellectual resources, and to determine the future that they value to inherit for themselves and for their future and have reasons to value. ADHAR has been adhering to major four different programmes:
- Basic Rights Programme,
- Livelihood Programmes,
- Child Rights Programme,
- Natural Resource Management
Organization’s basic philosophy and Goal:
Vision:
A society where poor, deprived, excluded and marginalized have equal access and control over their rights and entitlements, resources and institutions in order to lead a life with dignity.
Mission:
To promote social inclusion and democratic along with responsive and accountable governance so that all the vulnerable sections and their children are empowered to effectively participate in mainstream development and decision-making and implementing processes as well, at all levels.
To work towards fighting the causes of poverty and social injustice and for building a society in which all are guaranteed dignity, human rights and equal opportunities.
To address the causes of ‘Capability Deprivation’ and ‘Entitlement Deprivation’ for and by the poor and deprived sections in order to ensure a life for everyone irrespective of everything to live long and to live well.
Goal:
To help people to help them selves for cultivating a better life and a just society where voices of the poorest, deprived and marginalized are heard and develop out of ownership and participation.
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