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SEVA INTERNATIONAL INC
SOCIAL UNITY IN DIVERSITY
OUR VISION
- A unique Australian South Asian community of migrants of Indian sub
continent ancestry, living in Sydney, NSW, Australia;
- being actively involved in the social and welfare issues which affect
their lives;
- with a commitment to equal partnership between all those involved
through sharing of skills, knowledge, and experience in order to bring
about social change;
- A vibrant, confident, motivated and enterprising community seeking to
enhance the quality and content of their relationship with the wider
Australian community.
OUR MISSION
SEVA International Inc. (an acronym for Social Entrepreneurial Ventures
of Australian South Asians ) :-
- seeks to identify and support individuals and communities to work
together in partnerships to address relevant issues of common concern;
- enables links and liaison between groups (formal and informal) and
individuals to evolve around issues of common concern on the basis of
mutual respect whilst respecting their diversity and differences;
- promotes and develops models of partnerships and organizational
structures (such as self help groups, community action groups,
strategic
alliances and Memoranda of Understanding) to empower local communities to
influence decision makers where required in partnership/association with
business, service providers and agencies at various federal, state and
local government levels;
- acknowledges the specific professional and personal experience and skills
of all individuals in communities to enable them to play a greater role
within the wider community of which they are a part.
SEVA VALUES
Harmony, Humanity, Social Well Being, Partnerships, Alliances, Equity,
Ethics, Access and Involvement.
SEVA's MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE
The following were elected to SEVA s Committee
of Management for 2009-2010.
Mr. Kalyan Ram...........President.
Mr. Tony Colaco .........Vice
President.
Mrs. Bindu
Narula.........Secretary.
Mrs. Patricia
Verma.......Treasurer.
Committee
members.
Mr. Vish Viswanthan
Mr. N. Santhanam
Mr. Kazim Hussain
Mr Ashutosh Agarwal
The following were co-opted to the Committee of
Management.
Mr. Om Dhungel
.. Bhutan.
Mr. Sudarshan Tambimuthu
.. Sri
Lanka.
Mrs. Moushumi Martin
. Bangla
Desh.
Mrs. Paru
Tiwari
Nepal.
Mr. Reji Varghese
.. India.
Under finalization
Pakistan.
Work in Progress: - 2009
2010.
- Scoping study on Building
Community care for Older South
Asians;
- Scoping study on setting up
a SA Womens Cooperative;
- Research on Underemployment
and Underutilization of technically skilled and professional migrants
from South
Asia.
- A review of SEVA s role and
directions for the future.
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