Cross Sector Collaboration between Corporates and Goodwill Social Work Centre, Madurai, India: Our Experiences

GOODWILL SOCIAL WORK CENTRE,MADURAI,INDIA

Cross Sector Collaboration between Corporates and Goodwill Social Work Centre, Madurai, India: Our Experiences

Goodwill Social Work Centre, a registered Indian Non-governmental organisation based at Madurai, India founded in the year 1981 has been working in the areas of children's rights, children’s rights through artwork, Children’s environmental health rights, humanitarian aid, Intensive family preservation of dysfunctional families, Youth and women development, non-formal employment training for youth, community technology services, environment education and action, social research,, NGO capacity building and networking and NGO consultancy and Corporate-Nonprofit partnership initiatives in and around Madurai,Tamilnadu,India.

The Goodwill Social Work Centre has been actively involved in partnering with multinational companies and International funding organisations in taking up cross sector collaborative development projects for children, youth and women since 1996.

We invite you to visit our organisation online at : http://www.goodwillsocialworkcentre.org, and watch my video on YouTube at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhkVeoo5mQE

The first CSR project was launched by the Goodwill Social Work Centre in 1996 in partnership with the US based DuPont South Asia Limited, Madurai under Safety Health and Environment (SHE) award(1996-1998) for organising rights based environment education and communication programme for school children at Therkkutheru village,Madurai,India.Theprogramme components comprised 1.environment rights education and training 2. Participatory training 3. Field study and exposure visits 4.Media interventions (Traditional and modern methods of communication applications).I invite you to watch our slide share at:http://www.slideshare.net/kalaneethy/environmental-education-and-co... 

It is a proud moment for us that the Goodwill social work centre was declared as one of the four international winners of “Panda IT Aid,2006”, Panda Software International, Spain(http://www.pandasoftware.com) to create community technology centres for children and young adults in low and moderate income families in and around Madurai, India. As CEO of the Goodwill social work centre I have been instrumental in winning the most prestigious “Panda IT Aid 2006 Initiative: Panda Software Digital Solidarity Grants Program” for the Goodwill social work centre awarded by Panda Software International, Spain. The Panda IT Aid Project has been managed by a team of professionally trained social workers, Development professionals and IT training specialists headed by Dr.J.Christopher Daniel,Executive Director and Project holder. Please check out my link: https://plus.google.com/photos/105970981309755050824/albums/5082592291991565073?banner=pwa

to watch photos of our Community Technology Services project for children,youth and young women in low and moderate income communities supported by Panda Software International,Spain

In recognition of our achievements in  providing digital opportunities  for children and young adults in low and moderate income communities through our Community Technology Centres, supported by Panda Software International(Panda Security)Spain, the INFOSYS BPO Limited,(www.infosys.com/bpo) ,a global IT company,Bangalore,India has selected our organisation for the donation  of 10  computer systems under the CSR-computer donation program 2010.   The computers  donated by INFOSYS BPO Ltd have been added to our Community Technology  Centres located in three places within our project area,which are being used by children and youth under our 'Non-formal Employment Training project'.It is indeed a feather in GOODWILL's cap! We are really proud of this achievement!

We invite you to view our web album  containing photographs of the donated computers and the use of computers by children and young adults at our various Community Technology centres in and around Madurai,Tamilnadi,India at:http://picasaweb.google.com/chrisdangswc/GoodwillSocialWorkCentreReceivesDonationOfComputersFromINFOSYSBPOLimitedBangaloreIndia?feat=directlink 

As part of the CSR initiative, E.I.Dupont India Pvt Ltd,Madurai,India,a U S based multinational company has been partnering with our organisation in taking up a community development projects relating to health,water and sanitation at the adopted village areas,Therkutheru,Madurai.Please follow the web album links:

https://picasaweb.google.com/105970981309755050824/EIDUPONTINDIAPVT... .

https://picasaweb.google.com/105970981309755050824/EIDUPONTINDIAPVT...

Our  CSR partnership initiative under the aegis of E.I DuPont India Pvt Ltd is the ‘Life skills-based hygiene education for School Children in the Corporate’s adopted village, Madurai,India during 2013-2014. This is a pilot project which focuses on empowering children with information dissemination through the use of traditional and modern media of communications. The curriculum includes children rights with a focus on environmental health rights, water, sanitation and waste, personal and food hygiene, water and sanitation related diseases that have an impact on health and facilities for water, sanitation and hygiene within schools, households and community.

Our experiences have shown that the cross sector collaboration between Corporates and Goodwill social work centre has not only been partly 'philanthropic' ,'transactional' and’ but mostly developmental’. We are expectantly looking for more business collaboration for social development activities in rural and urban areas in our project region in state of Tamilnadu, India.

We invite Corporates to partner with us and support our causes.

Dr.J.Christopher Daniel,M.A.,Ph.D
Executive Director
Goodwill social work centre
No:5,South street Extension
Singarayar colony
Madurai-625002
India
http://about.me/dr.christopherdaniel
Email:chrisdangswc@gmail.com
Website: http://www.goodwillsocialworkcentre.org
Telephone:+91 0452 2531175