lundi 14 juin 2010

The philosophy of child sponsorship

The philosophy of child sponsorship programme lies mostly in building love and affection between sponsors and children who are at different corners of the world. Right from the world war times children particularly orphaned destitute and neglected have been the focus of sponsorship programme. In due course what started as a humanitarian gesture towards the children who are lacking love and succor, turned out to be major movements in building human relations across the globe, in general and in the development of underprivileged children in particular. Today the reason is not world war but the scenario is same with the children fighting in fatigue against the war of illiteracy, unemployment, poverty, malnutrition, child trafficking, girl child infanticide, child marriages and similar social evils. The children in the villages are considered as burden or liability until they earn for the family. So the children though they cross the age of childhood they never enjoy childhood.

The "ensemble agissons" sponsorship program through the partnership of Vimukti Pothnal gives the right type of linkages, access and continuous contacts required for fostering relationship between children and sponsors on a long term basis. The initial focus on children through education and personality development input and family support promises the child a bright future. The main goal of sponsorship is child education through which rest all the weaknesses turn into strength. – Knowledge is Power.

There are those unfortunate children who are born in this earth but are burden to the family. The future of these children is at stake. Given any chance to themselves these children are not able to find a better prosperous future for themselves. But yes! We can together bring meaning to this child’s existence; we can help the child for its future in a better way. " Ensemble, agissons" along with its Indian/Raichur Partner has a plan to bring smiles on the faces of these children.

Arun Lobo, Director of Vimukti Pothnal


mercredi 9 juin 2010

Account given by Bernadette

How to bear witness of this journey?
How to find the right words to transmit, reveal, help others to perceive the emotion of this transformation?
Try to describe and observe in a different way, stripped of useless carapaces and embellishments.

"Indian imprints ...
A journey towards the esssential,
It is by openeing to the other that we go towards our own truth ..."

14th February 2010
Earth ... Mother, open to the diversity of colours of the skin, generous with warmth and light, dry, arid and at the same time luxuriant ... a land of many facets ...

17th February 2010
Faces that light up from the inside ... at the exchange of a glance, a complicity is born ... The heart and the body receive the warmth of the interaction between the people, with the women and the children, in the simplicity and authenticity ...

20th February 2010
Vital energy is circulating, linked to the heart ... it furthers the access to another level of conciousness of the present moment ... in its entirety and in all its dimension ...
The centring becomes more refined, the alignment becomes precise, the relaxation comes to the surface.

23th February 2010
Shared nourishment, mutual apprenticeship, engagement for a common cause ...
Admiration of the relentless action with the youngest ...
Approaching the poorest ...
Greeting all without dsicrimination of religion, conviction or origins ...
Taking care of the most destitute,
Helping with the education of the children,
Accompanying the women and the families ...

26th February 2010
Accompanying the children towards autonomy, responsability and awareness ...
Because the children carry the future,
Because Asia is the continent where the day breaks,
Because a lot can be done with so little,
Because joy trancends the optimism and pessimism and allows one to look at the other with more attention ...

lundi 7 juin 2010

The first General Assembly

Conviviality and sharing reigned at the first General Assembly of the association "ensemble, agissons", which was held on the 1st and the 2nd May in the Beaujolais region of France. During the first day, Daniel, Bernadette, Isabelle et Guy recounted their experience in the heart of the Project, last February, in this very poor and isolated region in the north of Karnataka. Backed up by photos, their underlined the difficulties met by the local populations that they witnessed: the lack of water and electricity, the extreme poverty, the insalubrities, the pollution, the discrimination between sexes, the arranged marriages, the separation of the castes, the weight of traditions, the damage caused by the floods.


"We have implemented an education and health programme with the Vimukti association, our partner locally, to carry out fundamental work with populations who have been forgotten by government programmes."


The two partnered associations have also drawn up a Charter specifying the modalities of child sponsorship. "We will be very attentive to a personalised follow-up between the sponsors and the children. The sponsorship must allow the children to develop within their families without creating supplementary discriminations and benefit indirectly to the entire community.