Causes Taken Up By An NGO Or Non Profit Organisation
by Kanan James NGO INDIANGO is an acronym which stands for a
non-government organisation. They are voluntary citizen based non profit organisations
who work for causes directly or indirectly benefitting the supressed and the
deprived sections of the society. These organisations can function on a local
scale, a national scale and even on an international scale.
In India an NGO is also referred to as a non profit organisation and as the
name suggests profits earned by these organisations cannot be distributed or
gained from. They have to be either reinvested or used for the better
performance of a social cause.
The source of funding for an NGO may be in
the following forms:
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Donations,
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Monetary grants obtained from
unilateral as well as multilateral agencies,
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Membership fees collected,
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Interests or dividends obtained
from investments made in its name and
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Other miscellaneous sources.
In India, the types of associations which
can be classified as an NGO are:
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A registered trust with one or
more trustees which can register itself as per the provisions of the Indian
Trusts Act of 1982 and
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A company which is registered
under section 25 of the Companies Act of 1956,
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A society which has been registered
under the Societies Registration Act of 1860,
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A statutory body which has been
constituted by a stature consisting of members,
·
A charitable organisation made
under the provisions of the Charitable Endowments Act of 1920,
·
Any other social work
organisations which is similar to a society.
However the World Bank classifies NGOs into
two groups. They are:
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Operational NGOs having a
primary focus on development based projects and
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Advocacy NGOs who are
constituted to promote and work for a certain specific cause.
The work of an NGO is not limited by any
boundaries. They play a very critical role in the betterment of society as a
whole by devising projects which help to develop the society, improve
communities and encourage and promote the participation of its citizens in the
various developmental causes and projects taken up. Their activities thus deal
in causes related to the:
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Environment which deal with
making the people understand the importance of nature, its role in our lives
and the harmful results which can crop up from its misuse,
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Society as a whole by
introducing better thinking, good hygiene, promoting family relations,
encouraging respect among its members, providing elder
health care etc.,
·
Advocate human rights by
helping to stop human trafficking, illegal selling of babies and children,
child labour, prostitution, saving the girl child etc.,
·
Promote education mostly among
the downtrodden by providing for free education and free aids to ensure
children and even adults develop the need and habit for going to schools and
obtaining education,
·
Protect the dignity of the girl
child taking steps to stop their killing in the foetus, ensuring better
treatment, etc.,
·
Help to build up
self-dependency and financial independence by helping people to learn different
types of work so that they can live with dignity, etc.
The work of an NGO is unlimited since it is
not limited by boundaries. Also anyone wanting to work for a cause is
wholeheartedly welcomed by the people forming and working for these causes.
With the society undergoing a gradual degradation in several avenues, it is the
NGOs who work as the social conscience thus keeping the society and the world
as a whole on the right track.
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