Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Independent Committee of Social Development

ICSD welcome to you
ICSD is a non-governmental, non-profit and grass roots development committee. It began in 2005, to support the poorest of the poor in socially and economically disadvantaged community groups. ICSD is working in the Ampara district,

ICSD has been working in a total of 16 Villages of Ampara districts in Srilanka to achieve the following goals

(A) To eliminate extreme poverty, hunger and malnutrition.

(B) To combat unfairness in human treatment, violence and discrimination and to build a human rights culture.

(C) To remove illiteracy

(D) To foster solidarity, peace, secularism and non-violence in domestic, social, and political life.
Philosophy of the Development - Poverty Elimination

Everyone knows that poverty is a main impediment for economic progress, good health and social prosperity for mankind.

ICSD believes that poverty elimination is one of the main tools to start up and promote the development of the marginal and weak in society. At the start of this process, ICSD is trying remove the poor from the impacts of poverty and to comfort them by ensuring at they gain least 2 times their current food provision through access to some sort of livelihood, a little land for the farmers for agriculture, convenient shelter, and education. For this purpose, savings, micro-lending, timely micro financing and vocational skills courses are effective instruments. ICSD used them to struggle against poverty.

VISION
* Perform a facilitator role in eradicating poverty through development of communities socially, economically, and culturally by adopting a participatory approach to achieve excellence in service through effective mobilization, utilization and management of available resources.
* Our extensive views which is people with psychosocial vision who all get together to generate prosperity life.
* To join together all in worldview with the aim of humanitarian people
* To exert for world peace
* The capacity to care for others gives life its greatest meaning and improving altruism
* To generate new world with aim of the humanitarian vision for children, refugees, elders, and all. and providing support to build up peace, prosperity, democratic, fair and freedom life.
* Our ultimate goal and vision is to satisfy all human kind in basic needs and social service, and to see reduced poverty, developed human resources and self-supportive citizens.
* The major developmental objectives of ICSD are to improve the living conditions of the farmers, women, and children through promoting better way of carrying out their livelihood by implementing projects targeted to improve the socio-economic conditions of the community such as education, health, job opportunities, skills, food availability, environment and financial services.
* Co-operate and co-ordinate with other relief organizations working in the same field to maximize the benefits for the recipients of our help.
* Composed of people who, from the basis of a belief in the power of love and truth to create justice and restore community, commit themselves to active nonviolence as a way of life and as a means of transformation - personal, social, economic and political. main areas of works which are disarmament and peace-building, interfaith co-operation, nonviolence education and training, women peacemakers, and youth empowerment.
* ICSD connects young people from all over the world to help them create their own international projects to enhance intercultural understanding, learning and sustainable development.
* Promotion of social, political, economical and cultural development in developing countries for enhancement of human progress.
* Promotion of people’s participation in the development process through enhanced communication skills and appropriate technologies.
* To serve as a youth empowerment platform where people can develop their initiatives and pursue their dreams.
* The capacity to care for others gives life its greatest meaning.
* Increase the intercultural understanding and reach this ICSD organise camps in almost all of member countries where youths from all over meets, interacts and got to know each other across all borders.
* Youths get together from different countries and background to create cross cultural, international understanding.
* We believe in humankind and in everything that touches on the recognition and respect of persons, and in the universal right to a dignified and decent life in all spheres of existence: from basic human necessities to culture, freedom, justice and full respect for human rights. And this dignity entails having structures that make it possible.
* We oppose arms trade and are demanding a faster nuclear disarmament process. and to exert for “world without wars and violence

MISSION
1. Support and guide couples, parents and children to lead a happy and meaningful life.
2. To promote education, morality, spiritual and mental development of the widest possible range of groups.
3. To encourage, empower and support people to develop their own initiatives to organize themselves and solve their problems using non-violent methods.
4. To assist all people, especially women and children who have been victims of abuse and violence, through counseling.
5. To organize recreational activities for the affected, disabled and neglected / abandoned children with nutritional support and handling handicapped children.
6. To active and improve people’s Reconciliation and power of understanding for all community.
7. Promoting reconciliation and ethnic integration and non-violent conflict resolution.
8. To assist the handicapped, poor, and orphaned children by providing and promoting education aimed at sustaining their long-term development and make the children accepted by the society.
9. To provide relief, re-settlement and rehabilitation to refugees and other persons displaced
by natural and man-made catastrophes.
10. To giving advocacy, guideline and service for the family care.
11. Giving assistance to setup production from the resources and make an opportunity to marketing for society people.
12. To get back the education for the students, to implement of improvement, make routine of work, and schedule them.
13. To Provide conceivable needs and aids for disabled person, anonymous persons psycho logically affected persons, and to lead them.
14. To create conductive environment for children to play in and overcome their psychological problems.
15. To promote peace, harmony, understanding and inculcate human and human values.
16. To provide psychosocial support and relief to victims of stress and trauma.
17. Improving the quality of life of voiceless and vulnerable people to live peacefully.
18. Eradicating poverty and creating sustainable livelihoods and to help poor people get sustainable income.
19. Protecting the human rights of and empowering men, women and children.
20. Promoting a safe and ‘Green’ environment and to take all appropriate steps to protect nature and the environment.
21. To be alert to, investigate and represent the interest of the public in instances of abuse of public trust, finances and administrative procedures.
22. To assist and sustain people in difficult circumstances.
23. Bring to the attention of all sections of society the needs of people and lead them.
24. To encourage dialogue between different communities, to develop peace in different areas of the country so as to begin the process of healing.
25. To promote the adoption of culturally and humanly sensitive interventions and support strategies by humanitarian, developmental and community initiatives through interventions at academic, policy and implementation levels.
27. To enhance the level of income and employment generation among the target populations by way of infrastructure development, training and promoting innovative financial mechanisms.
28. To provide education and resources to improve the lifestyle of the community and to advocacy and lobbying for man and woman.
29. To strengthen youths to cope with the present youth’s problems in the society.
30. The organizations promote private sector development and poverty reduction through: the financial sector and microfinance, trade and business development services, rural development and appropriate technology, small enterprise development and policy reforms, community development and social protection, gender and participation, environment and health, research, training and education to Encourage the woman for the leadership and management.


ICSD strongly believes that the empowerment of grassroots community groups can transform unjust social systems. Building community competence and community self-help skills are the way to accelerate equitable social, economical, cultural and human development. It believes in the principle of true grassroots democracy in planning and administration and that local people should be in control of all matters relating to village life.
The Core values of ICSD can be seen in the project activities:

(i) Gender equality

(ii) Social justice.

(iii) Community participation

(iv) Democracy

(v) Self- reliance

Major Activities ICSD works through integrating the following initiatives -

Promotion of Self- Help Groups
Micro-Finance
Income Generation
Employment Generation
Alternative Education
Health Empowerment
Awareness Generation
Environment Initiatives Training and Capacity Building
Herbal Plantation and Training Skill
Training Human rights
Rainwater Harvesting
Modern Agricultural Training
Campaigning on Various Issues

OUR PROJECTS
1.Saving Schemes
2.Self Employment Loan Schemes
3.Peace Program and world peace training
4.Man, Woman, Child Development Program
5.Educational Development Program
6.Health & Nutrition Program
7.Pre-School Program
8.Library Program
9.Environment Devt. Program, Tree planting composing of fertilizer, Awareness Program etc.
10.Construction of Rural Housing
11.Vocational Training
12.Home gardening and Herbal Gardening
13.Handicapped person, Elders Care centre
14.Bringing children back to school
15.Social Awareness Training
16.Sanitation Planning
17. To perform necessity schemes of human society occurring at regular intervals
18. family-to-family care package
19. Especially make use of peer-to-peer education techniques
20. To feed the hungers and Compassion with Common Sense
21. Motivate youth saving system
22. Peace and co-existence
23. Social mobilization
24. Volunteer works in all fields