ABOUT CECOWOR
Our mission
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We seek to empower marginalized peoples like lower-castes, gypsies, tribal people and women by making
them aware of their rights and of the importance of education as a key to long-term change.
- We think that the people should be involved as much as possible in their own development and liberation,
and so gain control over their own lives.
- We work with everybody regardless of gender, creed, caste, class or ethnicity.
- We also want to help other small grass roots organizations with less expertise and are involved in training NGOs,
promoting democracy and developing a strong civil society.
How we started
Our founder, Mr M. Susairaj, is from a poor remote village in Tamil Nadu but managed to get a university education.
He wanted to help others from his own community and in 1990 he set up CECOWOR with a group of educated and
socially concerned individuals;
they worked in the villages using informal education.
In 1992 it was registered as an organization and since then has extended its activities to include human rights advocacy,
skills training and economic development.
Mr. Susairaj has completed a thesis on
The role of voluntary organizations in eliciting people's participation
and has worked as a project consultant at the India Social Institute in New Delhi, assessing NGOs in Tamil Nadu.
The organization
We have a turnover of about £42,000 a year. Our donors include
Action Children Aid Denmark,
Danish India child care Denmark,
Just Trust U.K. and the Tamil Nadu government.
We have a good reputation in the area and recently won a national award for our performance.
At present there are about 30 full-time staff and 30 part-time staff. They are encouraged to undergo further training.
