Who We Are?

NEED from northern region of India is an Organization of passionately commited social entrepreneurs focused on promoting women and children and enabling livelihoods through sustainable economic developement, micro-finance, healthcare and education. Currently, our grass-roots network reaches 2700 villages and 450,000 people in the rural districts of Uttar Pradesh & Bihar, India.

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

NEED’s journey began in the mid-1980s when the founder, Mr. Anil K. Singh came, immediately after passing out from country renowned Xavier Institute Ranchi, into contact with another pioneering institute, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad wherein a golden learning opportunity to work, study & grow with a committed faculty, including then Director of IIMA, the late Ravi Mathai, a person with an exceptional human touch.

Since Anil himself comes from a peasant family, he could very well feel the pain of their living conditions and above all the social exclusion that deprived communities, particularly women and children, face in their lives. Even after being associated with autonomous and government-led institutions and after working at senior level positions, he always remained in constant touch with grassroots professionals, spiritual leaders, trainers, and behavioral scientists, including his rural parents who always (and still do) prove to be his closest friends and inspiration. It is the blend of his interior and exterior realization based on his traditional wisdom, experiential skills, and capacity to grasp grassroots challenges, followed by his practical visionary approach that together have enabled Anil to stand, struggle, and strive with a vision of empowering poor societies. He always wanted to create A BIG HOME for self-reliance through social, economic and political upliftment. Therefore, after working about 15 years in the formal sector, he developed an urge to change and NEED’s collective mind and mission was thus born on 22^nd day of May 1995.

NEED has grown since that time from a completely voluntary organization to a professional stature with activists, teams, volunteers, and networking organizations, who together persistently provide process oriented educational inputs, create demonstrative models, and endeavor persuasively for widening the circle of impact on the lives of deprived women and children. NEED began with an experiential learning idea. There are millions and millions of women and children who need and wanted to be mobilized, organized and educated functionally for their fight, right, might, ignite and respect. There are numbers of like-minded organizations that possess energy, enthusiasm, and time to reach out to these primary stakeholders. And here existed the package of relevant information, resources, and holistic environments. The simple idea then, was to bring together the three: women, children, and teams of activists through networking and cooperation. Once the connection between these three was made, the milestone of NEED was born to undertake its journey to fulfill the people’s needs.

MISSION

Maximize the human resource potential.

Create positive change in the Socio-Economic, Political and Environmental Spheres of the deprived, disadvantageous and dispossessed community.

Upliftment of deprived citizens of society, especially Women and Children.

VISION

A responsive and responsible human development initiative that keeps people at the nucleus of organization, towards empowering the deprived section of community

Core Values

Concern for learning and growing together.
Connectivity to community through Information, Experiential knowledge bank and treasure of human resource towards community driven self-venture & sustenance.
Always endeavors to Plan to Team Up & Team Up to Plan.
Development driven Collective concern, Commitment and Cooperation (C³).
Value driven integrity, participation with transparency and openness.
Trickle-up effect by ensuring the trickle down result of organizational time, energy and resources.
Last, but most importantly, “Equity for Equity”.

GOVERNANCE