INTRODUCING TO GURUKUL FOUNDATION
Gurukul Foundation is legally government registered a non-profit, apolitical, non-religious, philanthropic & charitable organization for uplift of vulnerable poorest of the poor primitive hill tribals, disadvantaged persons with disability towards their education and livelihood, destitute women and children, prejudiced old, infirm, indigent, orphans, religious minorities, People living with and affected by HIV and AIDS (including children), widows and socially backward communities primarily in inaccessible hills and other difficult terrains with focus on arduous geographical contiguity and non-availability of basic minimum needs of human life etc . So, it works both at grassroots community levels as well as policy advocacy levels to influence towards pro-poor government policies with bottom up need based approach ensuring human dignity and fundamental human rights as accepted globally in a sustainable manner. Now it is expanding activities in the tribal and hilly regions of Odisha Province in India from strength to strength. An informal association of hundreds of dedicated social activists since world infamous worst natural disaster known as Odisha super-cyclone of 1999 gradually culminated into a registered development entity in the name of Gurukul Foundation in July 2017.
Sustainable Agriculture
Gurukul Foundation focuses on promoting the farming System and Practices which maintain and enhance economic viability of agricultural production with sustainable ecological practices in hilly tribal areas ....
Childrights, education and development
Main thematic focus in this regard include action and advocacy for child rights and elimination of child labour and abuse; Address educational and development needs of children living in vulnerabilities; I ....
Women development and gender issues
Important programme focus is on promotion of gender sensitive atmosphere in the society through direct and indirect methods. Similarly, use of information, education and communication (IEC) and empowerment ....
Awareness and Capacity Building
Awareness and training, employability skill enhancement program of PwDs among others, capacity building in the field of livelihood, education, health, hygiene and community managed interventions are being ....
IAS Gurukul
Gurukul Foundation started free of cost coaching to hundreds of civil service aspirants (IAS, IPS, PCS/Odisha Administrative Service/ Odisha Police Service Group A posts etc) in the state of Odisha ....
Disaster management
The entire province of Odisha witnesses either flood, drought or cyclone every alternate year as is evident from Govt records as well. In order to make people aware of preparatory for these natural calamit ....
Major Activities and Achivements
Community Health and Development
Gurukul Foundation stresses on development and promotion voluntary efforts/groups by mobilizing local communities and strengthening of Community Based Organizations (CBOs) for all round sustainable development. It addresses health issues with a focus on old-aged, women and children’ health (MCH), address issues of HIV and AIDS, positive living, care and support.
Networking and collaboration
Collaborate with the agencies working in the development sector, to be a contributor to the state’s larger response and development endeavours. Therefore promote networking with grassroot / local, regional, national, international agencies, technical institutions and individuals active in development sector are important part of development intervention.
Celebrations & Observations
Our organization Gurukul Foundation, organized the following days of observation among other days, involving the general public, students and youths and made them aware of the importance of these days.
- Foundation day
- Independence day
- Republic day
Tribal development programme and initiatives for backward, Schedule Caste & minority communities.
In various sectors the programmes covered include employment-cum-income generation, tribal agriculture, Credit and marketing facilities, to free the tribes from bondage of indebtedness, protective legislation, minor products of forests, to improve sanitary conditions, drinking water facilities, education facilities in these tribal areas, integration of different sectoral development programmes,
Persons with disability (PwD)
It provides support in counseling, mobilization, training and placement of hearing impaired youth among others. Gurukul Foundation has been mobilizing hearing impaired (PwD) youth from all over Odisha for skill development training.
Creative School Education
Gurukul Foundation has been providing free of cost cooked food to the students for development of moral and ethics among school children in super-cyclone affected areas of Jagatsinghpur in Odisha on India’s eastern coast over Bay of Bengal. It also conducts programmes on health, afforestation, climate change, disaster management, yoga and environmental cleanliness etc among these school children for holistic development towards posterity.
OUR MISSION
…”..alleviating poverty and poor health standards by promoting and working through community and organizations: with a focus on enabling the marginalized and weaker sections of rural society to participate in the process of health and development by strengthening their resource base and capability through improved health care knowledge and skills, both in technical and socio-economic development areas”.
OUR VISION
……“..enable the poor including women and men from marginal poor community, dalits, tribal people and unemployed youths – to move towards sustainable development, through an overall increase in their knowledge and skills in areas that directly affect their standard and quality of life…”
OUR AIM
…”…to develop awareness among weaker sections of the community including slum dwellers and tribals and vulnerable to move towards sustainable development through overall increase in their knowledge and skills, in the areas which directly affect their standard and quality of life”.
OUR GOAL
..“Making a meaningful contribution to the society by empowering the communities to enable them leading a life with dignity, equity and quality.”
CORE STRENGTH
- Diversity of social contexts and Integrity of individuals.
- Dignity of life, non-discriminatory approaches and principle of equity.
- Indigenous wisdom and knowledge that exists in the communities.
- Professional, scientific and pragmatic approach of dealing with the problems.
- Participatory and rights-based approach.
- Convergence, networking and collaborations with the government systems, private sector and the agencies active in the social and development sector.
This is an organisation started by a group of motivated youth among community itself. So this organisation is born, brought up, nurtured and managed by community itself. As a result its volunteer base is more than 1300 among which women members are more than 700. Scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, minorities, backward classes and primitive hilly tribes have got overwhelming number in organisational programme activities who are handheld by teams of experts with decades long experience in UNDP, UNOPS, UNICEF, CARE, Plan International, PSI-USAID & Indian national NGOs.
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