A Reward

गेल्या ९२ वर्षाच्या आयुष्यात जमिनितुन एवडे पिक आलेले बघितले नाही। अफार्म च्या कार्यक्रमामुले पडिक नापिक जमिनितुन आमच्या कुटुम्बाला वर्षभर पुरेल एवडे अन्नधान्य मिळाले आहे। - श्री कृष्णाजी गढ़िरे, वाणी चिन्चाली, सोलापुर

Experience in ConnectIT workshop

This is very nice oppurtunity for us to recall and expand our knowledge about IT for non profit. Though we are used to MS Office since last few years, here we knew lot of new things which were not touched by us. All the learnings will certainly helpful for us to track up our works within stipulated time period.

Ashutosh imparted the training in very kindly, friendly manner. He is delivering lectures since last 3 days without any obstructions. His continuity, enthusiasm, skills are too good to understand IT for para computer literates. We are thankful to him, Vikas, Rumi, Santosh and Guidestar.
Thanks for nice photographs and support for creating our blog.

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Mission of AFARM

1. AFARM Origin :
AFARM (Action For Agricultural Renewal In Maharashtra) was born out of an acute need for an Apex Institution to co-ordinate efforts of Non Government Organizations (NGOs) in their tasks of providing Drinking water and agricultural extension services to villages in drought affected Maharashtra. It was one of the first organizations to operate as an Apex institution, in the country
Prior to 1967, Missionary Organizations were engaged in making available the drinking water to the rural comminutes who were facing scarcity of drinking water. Number funding organizations also took up the said program on their agenda and supported the missionaries with drilling units & equipments. The independent work of the missionaries in the said program later on aroused the need of coordinating organization. Therefore seven Missionaries came together and informally started coordinating the program of supplying drinking water to the rural communities as Maharashtra Regional Water Resource Development Group’. Later on registered the organization as “Action for Agricultural Renewal in Maharashtra” (AFARM) on 18th November 1969.
The seven Missionary Organization’s who formed AFARM are,
· WAR on WANT – Churches of Scotland Mission, Jalna. (Dr. John Christopher Wiggle’s worth).
· Saint John Church – Ahmed Nagar.(Fr. Leo Havelock Desai).
· Electro Technical Institute, Shrirampur, Ahmednagar. (Fr. Edmund D’Souza).
· Vadala Mission, Ahmed Nagar. (Reg. Gifford Hough Towel).
· Rita Cottage, Manmad, Nasik. (Henry D’Costa).
· Rose Cottage, Ahmednagar. (John Malcolm Hennaing).
· Maharashtra Prabhodhan Seva Mandal, Nasik. (Fr. A.L. Fonseca)
2. Vision :
Provide a forum for interaction amongst voluntary organisations (VOs) and other funding and developmental organizations, including the Government for sustainable development of the society.
3. Mission :
Build the capacity of VOs and their staff/ volunteers to enhance the effectiveness of Voluntary Sector.
4. Goals :
· Promotion of Voluntary efforts in the field of Natural Resource Development, Human Resource Development and Socio-Economic Development of down-trodden and Community Development.
· Promote and support co-ordination of the programs of the Voluntary agencies with plans of Government in above mentioned areas in the State of Maharashtra.
5. Thrust Area
Networking,
Natural Resource Management ,
Human Resource Management,
Study, Monitoring and Evaluations

About AFARM

http://www.afarm.org