About Us – Ethical Foundation Trust
Ethical Foundation Trust has been created to promote resident’s collective initiatives and innovations with the mission - Shreshth Community (Great Community) and Active and empowered residents.
It was registered in early 2019 with the goal of establishing civil societies in all the communities and spreading TALASH messages. Innovating various programs under the umbrella programs हम-निवासी, facilitation of resident’s meeting and TALASH monthly first Sunday meeting, Ethical Foundation has shown impacts of resident’s collective initiatives at the very local level. Impact report of हम-निवासी and Niwasi Sabha programs is attached. Currently working with two field facilitator staff in Patna and near-by areas it has attracted attention of various organisations and prominent individuals.
Field facilitator staff are also encouraged to be Bridge Business Partner, as they are in contact with different stakeholders in the community.
Mission is: Shreshth Community (Great Community).
Key messages: हम-निवासी, मिलें कुछ करें. (we residents, meet and act collectively).
Goal: Collective initiatives of the residents easy and effective! Residents collectively achieve ‘great community’ for themselves
Method:
- Facilitation of ‘collective initiatives of residents’ to be easy and effective by deploying trained facilitators and field coordinators.
A few examples of collective initiatives of residents that we drive is:
- ➣ niwasi sabha - agenda giving, sharing views in the meeting, decisions recording, follow up and achieving the decision’s outcome etc.
- ➣ addressing common agenda
- ➣ facilitation action to complete collective decisions
- ➣ tracking quality
- ➣ promoting creativity amongst students and youths
- ➣ sambaad (speech-debate competition) and other community based projects
- ➣ helping each other
- ➣ financial contributions for common services and more.
- Running programs. Those are:
- ➣ Ham-Niwasi workshop
- ➣ Community and door to door campaign
- ➣ promoting creativity amongst children and youths
- ➣ identifying needy and helping hands
- ➣ grading
- ➣ educational and other service specific facilitation
- ➣ resident’s get together
- ➣ resource mobilisation
- ➣ paid services under Bridge Business
- ➣ capacity building of youths to be facilitator of collective action by residents
- ➣ IT solutions
- ➣ social media
- ➣ collective initiative tourism and more
- Promote Community Based Organisations.
- promote Bridge Business for facilitators in the community, and vice versa ie Bridge Business Partners also spend some their time and resources for spreading collective initiatives.
Core Programs are: (1) Facilitation of Niwasi Sabha, (2) Ham-Niwasi (it has various sub-programs as per methods mentioned above). http://facebook.com/hamniwasi . We implement programs in Patna urban area engaging two field team members.
Further details:
How do we facilitate resident’s meeting ? – ‘Resident’s Meetings’ has to be agenda driven. It is based on the written agenda and recorded decisions. Decisions are in two sections.
- Section 1 ‘What will resident themselves do’ and
- Section 2 ‘What information, expectation or complaint residents will send to their local, state, or national governments or service providers’.
In a community (in the local geography), if residents want some new public service-facility or want to solve any challenge that they face, we propose they follow the following steps so that they collectively address such issues.
- residents write their agenda in an agenda form ->
- collect information on the agenda status quickly ->
- make a status report for their community ->
- agenda is taken for discussion in the resident’s meeting ->
- discuss status report on agenda in the ‘resident-meeting’ ->
- decide together ->
- take some collective initiatives or do something collectively to fulfil their decision.
What is Ham-Niwasi program? – There is a trained facilitator person placed in a community who conduct all types of activities to achieve the goal of Shreshth Samuday, and active and empowered residents. All the field activities presented below come under the Ham-Niwasi program.
- ➣ Ham-Niwasi workshop
- ➣ Community and door to door campaign
- ➣ promoting creativity amongst children and youths
- ➣ identifying needy and helping hands
- ➣ grading
- ➣ educational and other service specific facilitation
- ➣ resident’s get together
- ➣ resource mobilisation
- ➣ paid services under Bridge Business
- ➣ capacity building of youths to be facilitator of collective action by residents
- ➣ collective initiative tourism and more.
How do we promote CBOs ?
- we try to organise a workshop on TALASH key messages and Talash method in an area
- Interested individuals take initiative to be convenor of Talash chapter in the area.
- We assist further the convenor in oragnising the Talash local chapter meeting.
Who developed the Ham-Niwasi program modules.
The modules are developed with the experience of Talash members and staff of Sunai Consultancy. Sunai Consultancy is a private limited company whose service is conducting surveys and studies for social development sector. Sunai exposure to different aspect of social sector drives to develop module that are very much focused on resident’s collectiveness and that any action should be driven by facts on ground. One of the trustees, Pranav Chaudhary, is also the director at Sunai Consultancy.
Picture Gallary
Niwasi Sabha
Street renovated and constructed on the initiative of a Resident Sabha
Workshop with mothers
Ham-Niwasi Campaign (education – every child can read at least, and quality education for all of them)
मिलें तो सही बातें तो हों (meet and discuss) – in pictures
Registered address : K-73, P. C. Colony, Kanakarbagh, Patna – 800 020.
Legal status and registration
Legal Status : Ethical Foundation Trust is registered as a Trust on January 21, 2019.
Ethical Foundation is registered under section 12AA and 80G with IT department of Government of India.
Trustees are:
Dr. Avinash Prasad: मेरा जन्म कमजोर आर्थिक परिवार में आजादी पूर्व बिहार राज्य के वर्तमान नालन्दा जिले के दोसुत गाँव में हुआ। मैंने 11 वर्ष के उम्र से गाँव के बच्चें एवं सहकर्मियों को पढ़ाने का काम करता था, जिससे लेखन-सामग्री, पुस्तकें एवं अन्य जरूरतों की पूर्ति होती थी। प्रारम्भिक शिक्षा गाँव से 5-11 कि.मी. दूर, दुर्गम रास्ते तय करके किया। मैंने पशुचिकित्सा विज्ञान में स्नातकोत्तर (स्वर्णपदक के साथ) की शिक्षा ग्रहम की। 1983 में मद्रास पशुचिकित्सा महाविद्यालय में Milk - Induction की खोज की और राष्ट्रपति से सम्मान प्राप्त हुआ। मुझे भिन्न-भिन्न संस्थानों द्वारा पशुचिकित्सा के क्षेत्रों में उत्कृष्टा के बारम्बर पांच बार स्वर्णपदक दिया गया। बिहार पशुपालन सेवा करते हुए 2003 में उपनिदेशक पशुपालन – बिहार से सेवा निवृत्त हूँ, और अपना निजी-चिकित्सालय चला रहा हूँ।
प्रारंभिक समय से समाज-सेवा से जुड़ा रहा हूँ। मैंने अपने गाँव में सरस्वती-पूजा, लक्ष्मी-पूजा, गणगशोत्सव का प्रारम्भ किया हूँ। गाँव में नाटक, सामाजिक गोष्ठी इत्यादि का जनक भी हूँ।
गाँव-गाँव में पपीता और अमरूद का पेड़ असहायों के दरवाजे पर अपने मेहनत और पैसों से 10-वर्षों तक लगाया।
प्रत्येक वर्ष उसका निरीक्षण किया, जिनके वृक्ष जिन्दा रहते उन्हें 50-50 रू. प्रोत्साहन राशियां दी। अमरूद और पपीता के वृक्ष लगाने के प्रति उद्देश्य था कि यह एक-साल में फल आता है और पौष्टिक - स्वस्थ आहार है।
पांच-वर्षों तक गांव के अन्दर उत्सव या श्राद्ध में जो भोजन बच जाता था उसे मांग कर भूखों में बाँटता रहा।
अमीरों के पुराने कपड़़े, जूता-चप्पल, नेल पालिश, रीवन-नारा, लीपस्टिक जिसे वे लोग फेंकना चाहते थे, बल्कि साबुन के छोटे-छोटे टुकड़ों को प्राप्त करके जरूरतमंदो के बीच बांटा।
सामूहिक-शादियाँ, पारिवारिक विवादों में भूमिका।
मैंने 2008 में अपना जीवन-दान कर दिया हूँ।
अपने जातीय संगठन में अहम पदों पर रहे। 15 वर्षों से बिहार पेंशन समाज-पटना जिला, सभापति। 12 वर्षों से वरिष्ठ नागरिक कल्याण समिति बिहार (पटना), अध्यक्ष। तलाश, सदस्य एवं पूर्व-संयोजक। एथिकल फउंडेशन ट्रस्ट, अध्यक्ष। पशु स्वास्थ्य एवं मानव स्वास्थ्य के प्रचारक के मुख्य वक्ता
मैं स्वास्थ्य हूँ, आशीश आप का, वर्धरत-प्रमात्मा का।
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हिम्मत है तो एक भी दीये जलाकर दिखा दो तो जानु।
Brig. Krishna Murari Pd. Singh: He served India Army from 1974 to 2010 with highest honour Brigadier. He, now a days, contributes on various social forums. He is the chairperson of the board of trustees of Ethical Foundation Trust. He has been an active member of Talash.
Ajeet Sinha: Ajeet Sinha is a young man in his age late 70, fully dedicated full time for the welfare of the human being. He started his career with Bihar Government in 1972, and held the post of the Welfare Officer for a short duration. Later appointed Auditor in A. G. Bihar in September1973. He also contributed at Bihar State Electricity Board as Labor Welfare Officer from June1976 onwards. He retired from government job from the post of Deputy Director, Personnel at Bihar State Electricity Board.
Ever since, he has fully devoted his life for the welfare of the whole society. He is a founding member of TALASH – Ek Vaicharik Abhiyan. He also had been associated with Pratham for a short period. He is one of the founding members of Red Society. He also helps Prayas Bharti in their endeavor of women empowerment and fight against their suffering. He is the founder trustee of the Ethical Foundation Trust.
Pranav Kr. Chaudhary: Pranav Chaudhary is Treasurer. He closely drives Ham-Niwasi programs at Ethical Foundation Trust.
He graduated from IIT Mumbai in civil engineering in 1998, and soon after he joined the development sector with Pratham Education Initiative in Mumbai. He initiated Pratham’s education initiative in Patna, Bihar. He founded Sunai Consultancy in 2005 a survey, research and capacity building firm based in Patna. Development research projects implemented by Sunai have been of national, state and local scale.
He established community-based program that he continued to build which is named Niwasi Initiative – हम निवासी, मिलें कुछ करें! Niwasi Initiative is very grassroot orientation initiative with the strong IT backing. He is the founding member of the Ethical Foundation Trust with the prime goal of achieving societal goals by facilitating collective initiative of residents in a community.
Pradeep Rai: Pradeep Rai has worked at Sunai Consultancy in various community and survey projects as field coordinator for about 20 years. He has been fully dedicated to the cause of resident’s collective initiatives.
He contributed highly in developing Niwasi Sabha which led to existence of the Ham-Niwasi program. He appreciate well that community should take ownership of its own development including common services and facilities.
Rajkumar Mishra: I belong to Bihar and served Electrical Department, Government of Bihar. Since beginning I has been very active in social domain in his area where he served in his job. He initiative Talash chapter in Shahpur Patori, Samastipur. Under his initiative, Talash meeting has been very impactful locally. Talash group at Shahpur Patory ran environmental campaigns, social campaigns and organsied Talash meetings in villages.
