Orgin and objectives
SRED had come into being in the year 1997 and has been operating in Theni District since from beginning. It was founded by a team led by Mr.R. Alagarsamy is an ardent believer and follower of secular, democratic, empowerment and development principles. Since 1997 SRED is working for community organization and children empowerment, Empowerment of women, Poverty eradication, Social Justice, Rural development, Sustainable development and Gender equality .
SRED had undergone the following evolutionary processes in the last 26 years in pursuance of the above ideals since from inception.
Vision
Empowered rural youth and children exercising their due rights and Empowered women having access to easy credit, health services, and various other governmental services, local policies and decision making bodies and exercising reasonable control and authority over relevant social economic and civic institutions .
Mission
Empowering women for their Socio-Economic, political and Cultural advancement through their involvement in solving social and domestic issues, participation in local Governance, carrying out determined activities to access health services and various other governmental services, promoting and facilitating easy and low interest credit services to poor families and creation of various structure and systems to integrate energies and efforts of women. Empowering children through organizing and facilitating their forums and provision of educational services to access and exercise their rights.
Objectives
- To generate rights awareness among women, create forums among women and capacitating them to solve their rights and development issues by themselves.
- To empower women’s forums to create links with and access to various development and welfare programmes and bring those to the doorstep of villages and its development
- To empower women to participate in local self Government bodies and exercise their powers and authority over the same for the effective implementation of economic and social justice programmes
- To contribute towards eradication of poverty in the target area through implementation of various development programmes
- To generate awareness on Tuberculosis and Health awareness among women and general public for the prevention and eradication of Tuberculosis and various health issues
- To create women’s savings capital and facilitate access to easy and affordable credit for their enterprises development and livelihood improvement
To generate rights awareness, provide educational services to children and organize and facilitate forums among them at various levels
