Mahatma Gandhi National Foundation
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Mahatma Gandhi National Foundation
Mahatma Gandhi National Foundation,Kerala, founded in December 2000, is aims at propagating the ideals and perpetuating the memory of Mahatma GandhiMahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...
, father of nation. Mahatma Gandhi National Foundation(MGNF) is a mission of collective action to provide better future to the most vulnerable sections of Kerala
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
Society - women, children, disabled persons the aged and other disadvantaged groups - by providing educational training, protecting their health and environment
Environment (biophysical)
The biophysical environment is the combined modeling of the physical environment and the biological life forms within the environment, and includes all variables, parameters as well as conditions and modes inside the Earth's biosphere. The biophysical environment can be divided into two categories:...
, improving their living condition and strengthneing their family and community.
The paradigms of MGNF revolves around five crucial elements, research and development on science and technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
for the dissemination of eco-friendly rural technology to the poor, human resource development, attitudinal change and self management, and economic empowerment to the poor. "Development can be self-sustaining only if it brings about a change in the entire socio-economic matrix governing the lives of the poor" says Shri. Eby J. Jose
Eby J. Jose
Eby J Jose is a journalist and human rights activist from Kizhathadiyoor village, Palai, Kottayam District in Kerala, India. His wife Sindhu is an employee at the LSG department and father of Three children – Liya Maria, Diya Ann, Niya Elizabath and Joseph Kurian...
the Chairman of NGO.
National level lecture series
The Foundation is organising a nationNation
A nation may refer to a community of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, descent, and/or history. In this definition, a nation has no physical borders. However, it can also refer to people who share a common territory and government irrespective of their ethnic make-up...
al level lecture series to be held annually in different metropolitan cities of India.