OBJECTIVES OF THE TRUST:
- Protection of abandoned elderly & orphaned children: (a) To support/ operate old-age homes. (b) To support/ operate orphanages. (c) To help the abandoned elderly persons & orphaned children find suitable care homes. (d) To educate the general public towards preventing & eradicating this social evil. (e) To develop/ facilitate educational content and/ or deliver/ support
- Upliftment of destitute & socially disadvantaged: (a) To support/ operate social-welfare organizations that provide emergency food, clothing & shelter to destitute persons. (b) To support/ operate welfare organizations that provide social & legal aid to downtrodden people. (c) To help individual destitute persons find suitable care homes. (d) To help individual downtrodden persons find appropriate welfare organizations. (e) To educate the general public towards preventing & eradicating this social evil. (f) To develop/ facilitate educational content and/ or deliver/ support awareness programmes & skill workshops for long-term sustainability of these activities.
- Disabled-persons development: To drive the welfare of the physically challenged people for improving their self-confidence and skills via seminar and trainings for access to resources, and to provide equipment, skill trainings, education aid, and scholarships for the same.
- Support for Sports, Education & entrepreneurship: (a) To support/ operate Sports, Educational institutions for the economically disadvantaged sections of society. (b) To support/ operate entrepreneurship schools for the economically disadvantaged sections of society. (c) To support poor students with educational scholarships & equipment. (d) To support poor entrepreneurs with business setup & legal aid, including self-help groups & cooperatives. (e) To support/ operate organizations dedicated to enhancing the self-confidence of Indian citizens by educating them on Indian history, cultures, customs, traditions, philosophies, principles, values, ideals, Indic knowledge systems, Swadeshi Indology, Gandhian economics, etc.
- Employment generation:(a) To initiate income-generation programs for men, women and the needy. (b) To provide entrepreneurship development programs for new entrepreneurs. (c) To organize people in cooperatives and joint ventures for the promotion of self-reliance. (d) To organize seminars and conferences for needy people with the aim of developing entrepreneurship.
- Women development: (a) To form self-help groups (SHGs) among women and youth, and initiate credit and saving for their own betterment financially, socially and economically. (b) To facilitate formation of SHG federations, organize multi-skill trainings, seminars, conferences, and EDP trainings for SHG women. These self-help groups are not involved in microfinance. (c) To open job-oriented skill-training centre’s, construction of buildings for specializing in tailoring, embroidery, and computer courses for poor women and without collection of any fees. (d) To setup, establish, finance, promote, operate, maintain, support and/ or help in setting up and/or maintaining and/or running free legal-aid to poor women litigants either by conducting free legal aid camps or any other possible means and/or encouraging/ promoting mediation and conciliation among them.
MANAGEMENT OF TRUST PROJECTS:
- The Board of Trustees shall invite written proposals for social welfare projects directly from its employees/ consultants or indirectly from other social-work organizations. These proposals shall explicitly state the following: (a) Scope of project
(b) Project phases & timelines (c) Itemized project cost (d) Audit plan (e) Potential risks
(f) Communication plan (g) Project team, and (h) Intended beneficiaries.
- Before accepting/ approving projects & disbursal of funds, the Board of Trustees shall designate a project manager to conduct due diligence of the project to ascertain its genuineness & fidelity to the Trust’s vision & mission. This shall be duly documented.
- After confirming project authenticity, the project manager shall execute proper agreements & project plans with the project executors. This is central to the integrity of the Trust.
- During the execution of an approved project, its project manager shall regularly check progress as per the agreed project plan. Any deviations shall be promptly reported to the Board of Trustees for further action.
- After the completion of an approved project, the project manager shall conduct a thorough audit to confirm achievement of project results& then present a detailed report to the Board of Trustees. If satisfied, the Board shall “white list” the project implementers for sanctioning more projects in future. If dissatisfied, the Board shall “blacklist” the project implementers & may pursue legal action against them, if warranted.
- The entire process from project proposal receipt to project completion audit shall be duly documented for review by interested donors of the Trust in order to assure 360-degree transparency & accountability.
- The official year of this Trust shall be a period of 12 months from 1st April to 31st March every year. However, the first year of accounts shall cover a period from the date of this Deed.
- The Trust shall regularly & transparently maintain proper books of accounts, funds properties, and income & expenditure statements.
- The Trust shall duly prepare receipts & payments account for every financial year and also a Balance Sheet as on 31st March of every year.