Spastics Society of India|National Resource Centre for Inclusion (NRCISS) India Expand view Bandra Reclamation K.C. Marg Bandra (West) Mumbai 400 050 The organisation networks with organisations working towards rehabilitation, including the disabled, cancer and leprosy patients, women and substance abusers. NCCP, SSI has disabled staff and board members. They have a resource centre which is open to the public and an enquiry service which is accessible by letter or telephone http://www.nrcissi.org
Sri Lanka Association of Professional Social Workers (SLAPSH) Sri Lanka Expand view 191, Dharmapala Mawatha Colombo 07 SLAPSW's aims include: Upkeeping professional standards of social work; Training and research in human resource development; Working with the National Institute of Social Development in Sri Lanka in producing a quality workforce for social development; Produce local social work literature for public education; Undertake community development work in all parts of the country. The SLAPSW resource centre is open to the public
Voluntary Health Services Society (VHSS) Bangladesh Expand view 273 Baitul Aman Housing Society Road No.1, Adabar Shyamoli, Dhaka 1207 VHSS aims to help advance health policies and priority issues in Bangladesh by promoting need orientated activities that are appropriate, realistic and equitable in partnership with NGOs and Government organisations to achieve optimum Health for All. The VHSS resource centre is open to the public
AIDS Prevention Council of Kerala (NWWC) India Expand view Ariyancode Ottasekharamangalam PO 695 125 Kerala NWWC work towards poverty eradication, health education, continuing education, material collection and distribution, networking, SHC information, savings and crdit union activities, rural development, child welfare, etc. NWWC have a resource centre that is oopen to the public
Nest Sri Lanka Expand view Kåie House 241 Beach Road Hendala Wattala Aims to see happiness, promote justice and freedom, lift the stigmatisation of labelling, promote understanding and promote coping mechanisms within the community
SOMA (Social Organisation for Mental Health Action) India Expand view PO Box 6116, Trivandrum Kerala - 695 041 SOMA aims to: develop and implement programmes in the areas of health, environment and development; initiate sustainable development programmes for the needy and to initiate research, capacity building programes and development management programmes. SOMA has a small resource centre that is open to the public
CBR Development and Training Centre Indonesia Expand view J1. Adisucipto KM.7 Colomadu Solo 57176 The CBR DTC aims to solve disability issues through community development. This will be achieved by promoting the use of CBR as the most efficient way of preventing disability and improving quality of life of people with disabilities in every family, community and country. The CBR DTC resource center is open to the public
Mount Horeb Glory Ministry (Individual) India Expand view House 1-3-447/A/3 Kavadiguda Hyderabad 500080 The Ministry aims to undertake social service works by opening social service camps to serve the poor and deserving; mainly rural folk. Priorities are: HIV/AIDS prevention activitites and medical aid; Public health education centres and information exchange programmes
Association for Welfare of the Handicapped (AWH) India Expand view P O Box 59, M'Square Complex Pavamani Road Calicut 673 001 Kerala The mission of AWH is facilitating rebabilitation of people with all kinds of disabilities, the welfare of women in distress and children. The AWH resource centre is open to the public http://www.awhonline.org
Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS) India Expand view 25 Bhai Vir Singh Marg New Delhi-110001 Aims: To see women as active participants in politics and in plans for national development and not merely as passive recipients of marginal hand-outs. To focus attention on women's pressing and special needs for maternity protection, child care, literacy, education widening opportunities for and resources form various sections of society. To re-examine educational and other values generating processes which promote mystification, ignorance and distortion regarding women and the roles insociety. The CWDS resource centre is open to the public
Institute for Indian Mother and Child (IIMC) India Expand view Vill- Tegharia Post- Sonarpur Dist- 24 Pgs(S), WB IIMC is a Voluntary NGO working for the poorest of the poor in the field of primary health, education and rural development. IIMC is concerned with health education and health promotion, working towards their main objective of the total development and upliftment of the community. Women empowerment programmes and Micro Savings and Credit programmes aim to fulfill the basic needs of the community as they work towards self sufficiency. The hospital/clinic contains 20 beds.
Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC) India Expand view Khetwadi Municipal School 1st Khetwadi Lane Mumbai 400004 Work in housing and basic amenities for urban poor which are the foundation on which health interventions are based http://www.sparcindia.org
Movement for Rural Emancipation (MORE) India Expand view V/357-A Appa Rao Gardens Madanapalle, Chittor District Andhra Pradesh 517 325 Aims to improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities (PWD), empower them and ensure their integration into mainstream society. Its specific goals are to carry out and develop CBR; to lobby for and ensure that the rights of PWDs are met; to take up training programmes and pilot research in CBR; and to network with other groups/agencies with a view to enhance CBR
Save the Children (UK)|SC (UK) China Expand view 16-A, CITIC Building 19 Jianguomenwai Dajie Beijing, 100004 Save the Children works to achieve benefits for children within the communities in which they live by influencing policy and practice based on its experience and study in different parts of the world. In all its work Save the Children endevours to make a reality of children's rights
Mother Saradadevi Social Service Society (MSSS) India Expand view 115 Gandhi Nagar Oddanchatram-624619 Dindigul District T.N Its mission is to promote the sustainable health and well-being of people in need. Aims to improve the sexual and reproductive health of people in need; provide care and support to PLWHA and vulnerable children through a sustainable community based approach; to sustainably improve the income of poor households so that they can support and contribute to improving their family health; and promote sustainable grassroots institutions of women. Runs a resource centre that is open to the public http://www.health4needy.org
