Saturday, January 1, 2011

READ, BETTIAH



READ (The Charitable Association for Rural Education and Development) is a 33 year old nongovernment, non-profit organization, working for the empowerment, development and realization of the entitlements and rights of the socially excluded and marginalized people in the remote areas of Bihar, especially, West Champaran district.

OUR VISION

To build an egalitarian and self-reliant society founded on human values by developing self-confidence and leadership among the underprivileged sections of our society so as to help them to organize themselves by breaking caste and gender discrimination, superstitious practices and communal bondage, through participatory political process and gaining equitable control over the means of productions.

OUR MISSION

To accompany the poor, to help themselves to solve the problems of economic poverty, exploitation, gender bias, etc. and access them to government and other welfare programmes through a process of sensitization and organization.

OUR GOAL

Empower and capacitate the poor to enable them to realize their human and constitutional rights.

OUR FOCUS

  • * Educational Mainstreaming of the Deprived Sections through Strengthening of Primary Education System
  • * Strengthening Panchayati Raj Institution by Promoting Participatory Self-Governance
  • * Empowerment of Women and Sustainable Livelihood
  • * Capacity Building, Legal aid