SAND
- Trust is a non-profit voluntary organization registered under
the Indian Trust (Registration Act of 1882) in the year 1986.
SAND is also registered under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation)
Act (1976) and u/s 12 A of the Income Tax act (1961). SAND is
to work for and promote an indigenous “Alternate development
idea”.
SAND Trust that fabricates up on the knowledge and gains of the
past ten years. SAND has been working in Sivagangai and Ramnad
District geographically separated places in south Tamil Nadu.
In a much discussed and planned strategy, we are concentrating
to work with Dalits. SAND concentrated on a strategy that helped
in community organizing especially among women, children, youth
and small farmer’s .Our Vision is Making a “Socio-Politico-Cultural
Rights” a reality for every citizen in marginalized community
and empowering poor people through “Social Capital such
as Trust, Unity, Interdependence, Solidarity and net working in
the Civic Communities. Our Mission is Empowering Civic Communities
and making duty bearers, accountable to the stake holders. SAND
always believed only Right Based Approach and not on Need Based
Approach. Hr the foot prints of SAND from its journey in the field
of Activism. In the past 10 years, SAND dealt with the following
main objectives is Community Based Organizing, Addressing Livelihood
Issues, Child Rights, Farmers Field School and Grassroots’
Intellectuals
(a)To
translate the needs of the Dalits into their rights using rights
based approach
(b)To
build awareness of their rights among dalits and the oppressed,
among them woman and children to that they are able to assert
their rights and re-appropriate their entitlements and in the
process attain seven of the eight Millennium Development goals
–MDGS
(C)To
build solidarity on a geographically significant scale that would
result in a democratically run peoples organizations with the
strength to take on the duty bearers and be a significant non-party
political entity in the region. |
