Future Plans
The plentiful harvest and paucity of labourers is a Biblical image very
similar to the situation that CREED faces in its future plans. There
is so much work to be done in the social service sector in Tamil Nadu
that an all out effort on a war-footing is required on all the war-fronts
of CREED like education of tribal children, women empowerment, multifunctional
training programmes, entrepreneurial interventions, mass education programmes,
etc. Some of the immediate and concrete plans are enlisted below
- Initiation, ratification and adaptation of Institutional Policies
such as Accounting Policy, Gender Policy, HR Induction Policy
and the Child Protection Policy to make effect future strengthening
of the internal environment and the governance processes within CREED
- Bringing Disaster Risk Minimisation Portfolio within the broader
constitution of CREED to deal with future natural calamities and risk
minimisation and management measures
- Establishment of a Special School Programme for the benefit of at
least 500 children of the socially excluded Irula tribal
families and sponsorship of their sustainable formal education
- Establishment of a Multi-functional Training and Resource Centre
for the general rural public and for the small and medium sized NGOs
in the region to advance their technical capacities and to strengthen
their professionalism, besides increasing their involvement in ethical
self governance.
- Imparting training and assistance in improving the technical skills
and capabilities of rural women and community-based micro-financing
institutions and providing grants and financial support for
technical capacity building initiatives with the help of potential
partners.
- Initiating entrepreneurial involvements like Venture Capital interventions
such as ‘Common Procurement Markets’ for rural and urban
entrepreneurs, and initiatives such as ‘Sea Food Processing’ and ‘Milk
Chilling Units’.
- Bringing out effective publications highlighting the success role
models of social welfare projects which can encourage, leverage
and help in wider replication of such projects.
- Providing leadership and governance education to the Local Government
Leaders, especially the women leaders and the men leaders
from the socially excluded sections.
- Evolving a longer term plans to set up Livelihood Resource and Skills
Advancement Centre in Chidambaram to cater to the needs of the communities,
aspirant individuals and the charity administrators.
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