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The mission of
Association Un-Ami (France) and Friend-in-Need Trust (India) is to: |
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Motivate, support,
facilitate, monitor and evaluate the
introduction of innovations in the form of
new structures, new technology, new
management routines and new social norms, to
attain environmental and socio-economic
security in the marginalised zones of India. |
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Motivate: |
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Donors: Through
being an intermediary agency that lets them
play a real role in the uplifting of the
poor and know to whom and to what their
money is going. We will NOT be a black box
charity. |
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Students: Through
studying our projects, monitoring the
progress and writing reports and research
papers. |
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Policy Makers and NGOs:
Through diffusion of our reports giving
details of costs and benefits of each of our
actions so that they may be replicated and
best practices may be shared. |
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Residents of
marginalized zone: To empower themselves
more and initiate and actively participate
in local development. We do not give
charity. Each action is discussed and if
there is a mutual accord and commitment from
recipients on some form of reciprocal effort
in the same project or other developmental
goals, the action is implemented. Each
action is initiated only after a memorandum
of understanding for the reciprocal action
is agreed upon and signed. |
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Support and Facilitate: |
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NGOs: Through
offering job opportunities to initiate and
manage our projects. |
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Students: Through
financing the study of our projects. |
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Monitor and Evaluate: |
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Coordinator and
volunteers go regularly to Kameshwaram to
make first hand observations. |
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In addition to the NGO
staff in Kameshwaram, we finance students to
go to Kameshwaram regularly to send us
independent reports. |
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We evaluate the evolution
of use or disuse of each action using
students, as part of their course work at
the Masters level. |
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Our first target in
Kameshwaram are : |
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Elimination of open
defecation through the building of
individual toilets appropriate to local
constraints. |
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Assuring that all schools
in area have clean and working toilets. |
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Put in waste management
systems. |
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Make the village as clean
as their counterparts in developed
countries. |
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Our long term goals
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Map out strategies for
the attainment of the MDG in India through
case studies, statistical and econometric
analysis and theoretical models.
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Facilitate the generation
of new technology (e.g. toilets), quality
norms and socio-economic models (such as
incentive systems for utilisation of
toilets) that contribute to the economic
development of the most poor. |
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NOT become a BIG
organization. Our objective is to have a
steady fund base of about Rs.40,000,00 per
year or 80,000 $ per year. |
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