Together with our local partner organisations we are working on empowering people in order to take responsibility for their lives and to participate in the decision making processes about their social, political and economical future actively. We want to enable them to satisfy their basic needs, to preserve common forms of living within the family and community and to protect their natural environment. In our projects we are supporting the following activities, aiming at a comprehensive, holistic and sustainable development process in rural areas:
- Awareness generation and organiation of the target groups
- Non-formal education
- Preventive and curative activities in the field of health promotion
- Agriculture and preservation of natural resources
- Income-generation
- Construction of low-cost houses/latrines
Preventive character
The programmes in general do have preventive character. Regarding the regional concentration of our co-operations we do have a clear focus for the most deserving areas in the middle and north of India.
We are assisted by three co-ordination offices of Cyriac Elias Voluntary Association (CEVA), with the head office at Cochin and regional offices at Ghaziabad/Delhi and Calcutta. CEVA is a registered voluntary society established in 1987 under the animation of the Carmelities of Mary Immaculate (CMI) Congregation.
The co-ordination offices are managed exclusively by experienced Indian staff. In consultation with us, they assist our project partners in an advisory capacity, on a regular basis and report back to us on the implementation and progress of projects. Furthermore, the co-ordination offices are responsible for establishing the initial contacts with new project applicants and for selecting and recommending new partner organisations.
