CORP (Community Outreach Programme)
For the last twenty five years, CORP (Community
Outreach Programme) has been in the business of teaching
people to fish. Or, in other words to fend for themselves.
At CORP, we believe that self-sufficiency and not dependency
is the key to a life of dignity and self-respect. This
is the belief that gave birth to CORP and is the common
thread that binds all its activities through the last
two decades.
Beginning with three staff members and
a four year grant from the World Hunger Project of Methodist
churches in Southern Asia, CORP has grown to a staff
strength of more than one hundred today.
Its programmes focus on one of the most deprived
and neglected sections of society - the slum dwellers
of Mumbai. Activities stretch from Kaner near Virar
to Dharavi, Jogeshwari, Kurla, Matunga, Thane, Ambemath...
all the way to Talegaon.
CORP's dedicated staff is often drawn from
very communities they serve which means they can better
understand and empathize with the problems of the people
they work with. In fact, CORP owes most of its achievements
to its team of committed and trained individuals. They
have worked tirelessly to improve conditions in the
slums where health, education, and poverty are some
of the fundamental issues that CORP has chosen to tackle
head-on.
MISSION STATEMENT
Give a man a fish and he will live for
a day. Teach him to fish and he will live a life time.
CORP's vision is one of marching towards a holistic
development of the underprivileged children, women,
youth and senior citizens of our society.
Our focus is on providing education to children,
health care facilities to the children and senior citizens,
empowerment of women by making them economically independent
and providing conditions, which facilitate this process.
CORP believes that self-sufficiency and
not dependency is the key to a life of dignity and self-respect.
This is the belief that gave birth to CORP and is the
common thread that binds all its activities.
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