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www.vikasmaitri.org |
website for rural and tribal development |
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Vikas Maitri |
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Voluntary Development Society in Jharkhand |
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The Programme Centre building of Vikas Maitri is located near the commercial centre of Ranchi, the capital city of Jharkhand. It has a conference room, guest rooms, dinning and kitchen facilities ideal for holding conferences and short term training programmes. German family visits Adivasi villages Mr. Eckhard Bitterich along with his uncle Rev. Dieter Hecker and his three children visited some villages in our project area in early January 2008. Mr. Bitterich is himself a farmer in Germany and is an Agricultural Engineer. He wanted to see the life and condition of farmers in adivasi villages.
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Who are we? Vikas Maitri is a composite of two Hindi words - "Vikas" means development and "Maitri" means friendship or alliance. Maitri also connotes amity , fellowship and solidarity. It is striving to work in solidarity with the adivasis of Jharkhand in India. Vikas Maitri is a union between the three major churches (Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church, Church of North India and Roman Catholic Church) and a few others founded in the late 1960s for socio-economic development of the tribal regions of the then Bihar State, more particularly in the Chotanagpur region of India. Today Vikas Maitri is known by the people it is working with as a movement towards solidarity and development. Its main areas of concern are motivation and training of the people, assistance in self-help micro projects for a group of people, promotion of organic farming, production of organic fertilizer, social forestry, women activism and community organization. It has been able to inspire the people to start and consolidate a three- tier people's organization, starting from the village councils.One of the unique endeavours of Vikas Maitri is the floating of a duly incorporated public limited company owned by the ordinary Adivasis of the villages. The main objectives of this company are "to carry on business to invite, accept and receive deposits at interest or otherwise for fixed periods from members and to lend the fund on terms and conditions formulated by the company to promote different saving and financial help and benefits to its members or to carry on the business of being a finance company". Members of the Governing Body His Eminence
Telesphore P. Cardinal Toppo Staff
This site is designed by Dominic Bara, Vikas Maitri |