About Us
CREED-
Centre for Rural Education and Economic Development has been
involving in development and empowerment interventions among
the socially, economically poor and vulnerable sections of
the society and also with disabled vulnerable people since
from the inception 1987. Initially it started
its debut in the social action in Cuddalore District and
on the basis of the need it had extended its activities two
adjoining Districts Vilupuram and Perambalur.
CREED
has curved out its own space, identity and fame through its
ardent involvement in the set activities, achievement brought
to its target people and active role in the macro level policy
interventions. CREED has been increasingly becoming visible
not only in the nearby district like Nagapattinam, Tanjavur, but
also in entire Tamilnadu State because of its key role in
several developmental and Advocacy area.
Vision
A society in which all the people:
- Live with pride, prosperous, and empowered to deal
favorably with natural disasters.
- Free from poverty, bondage, violence, rights violations,
health hazards and health risks, opportunities leads
to various types of victimization .
- And have necessary personal qualities, individual and
collective infrastructures.
Mission
Empowering
and developing the target communities to build their own
life environment, necessary structures and systems, solve
their own problems and issues and restore and rejuvenate
from any natural disaster to have control over the
overall development process and their destiny through socio
economic, rights, relief and rehabilitation and Good Governance
interventions and community based organizations and networks.
Goals
- Empowering women socially, economically, politically
(related to local self government – PRI) and in
asserting their rights for achieving equality in various
aspects, social status, social leadership, personal autonomy
and liberty through economic, rights, PRI, awareness
and advocacy interventions.
- Creation of empowered, healthy, able, violence and
exploitation free and responsible children population
in the target area for the purpose of overall personal
(child), family, local area, state and the National development
through childhood protection and promotional actions.
- Reduction of poverty and increasing the standard of
life in the lives of rural poor, marginalized, and disadvantaged
mass.
- Protection of victims of various types of natural calamities/disasters
through collective actions and rehabilitations interventions
and capacitating the communities to effectively handle
the same with less affect and turn the situation towards
their favour by themselves.
- Empowerment and development of special groups of people
like Tribal, Disabled, to achieve increased standard
of life, equality and resourceful.
- Creation of sanitary, healthy and dust and waste free
life environment in the target area and building sustainable
structure and systems.
- Reduction of the vulnerability of the various target
people to health risks and dangers to lead healthy and
long life through appropriate behavioral change processes,
curative and prevention actions and creation of conducive
social environment.
- Creation of responsible citizens to play their roles
effectively in the society and lead their life and life
situations confidently and professionally.
- Facilitating the target communities to lead towards
sustainable development through promotion of various
types of sustainable agricultural practices
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