अपलिफ्ट विषयी

Who are we?

UpLift India Association (UIA) is a non-profit company registered under Section 25 of the Indian Company’s Act 1956. Formed in December 2004, it is an Association of organization working in the areas of Microfinance, Health and Family Development in the urban and rural areas of Maharashtra.

UpLift India Association shares its technical support for its activities through one of its association members, Swabhimaan.

The organizations that are part of the Association are autonomous in their functioning, each defined under a legal status and governing structure.

History

In 2000 Swabhimaan, a Pune based technical support organization was set up with the support from Inter Aide, a French NGO. In 2001 five NGOs viz. Swabhimaan,Pune; Inter Aide, France; Navanirman Samaj Vikas Kendra, Mumbai; Parwarti Swayamrojgar, Pune and Annapurna Parivar Vikas Sanstha, Pune formed Uplift Network in order to improve their impact from Microfinance activities.

In 2002 Uplift started community based health Mutual Fund research with Annapurna Pariwar Vikas Sanstha in order to provide its members proper coverage in case of major health problems.

Disha Kendra, Pune; DISHA, Pune and Annapurna Mahila Mandal Credit cooperative Society, Mumbai joined the network in 2003.

In 2004 Uplift India Association formally incorporated as Section 25 company under the Indian Companis’ Act 1956.

Currently  UIA is a network of Nine organizations involved in activities improving and strengthening the livelihood of the poor in Pune, Mumbai and now also extended to Marathwada region & Kolkata. 

Vision

UpLift India Association Members are working together to accomplish the following vision:

“Enriching Lives of the Poor…together”

Mission

The UpLift India Association Technical Support Team works with the mission of providing various tools and services to NGOs to help them to provide economically sustainable development services to the urban poor.
The objective of such professionalism input for NGOs is to provoke a chain reaction on the final user living in the slum discovering through the services offered instruments leading his family toward an improvement of his livelihood security both economical and health wise.
In order to achieve this undertaking the UpLift India Association lays down the following objectives:
- To improve the livelihood of the poor in generating income through sustainable activities and improving their risk management system through responsible behaviors in solidarity health or accident mutual security funds,
- To Share means, tools, information, human resources, capacities for maximum efficiency,
- To Co-ordinate activities together for a greater and more consistent impact,
- To Innovate and to create new sustainable, solidarity based products/services in the domains of Micro-finance and Micro-insurance where users have a responsibility towards the system,
- To promote quality through our activities in order to improve our impact to the maximum number of people via new member organizations

Values

The vision has its roots in the following values:

·                     Solidarity: One for All, All for one

·                     Entrepreneurship: Action oriented and creativity

·                     Professionalism: Responsibility, Reliability and Accountability

·                     Transparency

·                     Simplicity: In problem solving and solution providing

·                     Respect: For people, environment, rules regulations and information

Goals for 2010