About
Stimulating people for empowerment, awareness and
knowledge through research as well as education, an initiative to
engage the society in creative, innovative and constructive work for
strengthening the very foundation of society and people living out
there.
This organization is a platform from where a dream of creating
knowledge based society can get its real shape. It’s an effort to
create a society, where everyone is aware about his/ her rights,
duties and capable of empowerment through knowledge attainment.
Creation of a society, where justice prevails in all its forms and
the freedom of individual is respected and different multi-cultural
as well as ethnic identities live together in harmony. This vision
is not a utopian rather a well thought out and articulated action
plan, which could be achieved, if young minds are actively engaged.
Each society has its own reservoir of knowledge, that is “knowledge
capital”, which provides meaning to its existence and in which
society finds its solution to its problems. Our organization would
endeavour to decipher and understand that very knowledge base of
society, which keeps all the realms and institutions of society
intact: political, economic and social.
In an era of knowledge economy the whole world is pre-occupied with
the issue /concept of knowledge and this organization would like to
contribute in this regard by working on the issues like Social
Impact Assessment (SIA), Resettlement and Rehabilitation (R&R),
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Intellectual Property Rights
(IPRs), Socail Auditing and many more.
In contemporary times society is grappling with various problems,
people are living cheek by jaw and myriad problems pertaining to
society, polity, environment, health come to fore. Interestingly
enough the solution to all these problems lies in society itself.
All one needs is an active engagement and intervention into the
working of society to trace the roots of various malice. Our
organization strives to work in this direction.
The foundation follows the participatory approach where people would
act as actors, we as initiators and the government as facilitator.
We also provide people a ‘vocal platform’ and follow the principle
of active engagement rather than practicing the principle of
detachment.
Every society has its own unique way of responding to the external
stimulus and has its own mechanism to deal with problems. People
within a community develop certain kind of patterns of behaviour or
attitude towards everything existing in and out of their
geo-political boundary, which in turn is derived from beliefs and
ideologies prevalent in their socio-cultural matrix. These beliefs
and ideologies constitute the cultural baggage of knowledge, which
is carried forward from generation to generation. Therefore, we
adopt scientific and reflexive methodologies to unravel the
structure of knowledge of society embedded in their socio-cultural
milieu. This allows us to get an in-depth insight into the
community’s psyche.
Thus, this ethnographic insight of their knowledge capital would
work as an instrument for stimulating them for empowerment,
awareness and knowledge with their own cultural ways. And this is
the aim which SPEAK Foundation uphelds.