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HISTORY
Since its founding in 1973, IMSE has been trying to organise the poor,
deprived and exploited sections of the society and to create awareness among
them so that they can raise a united voice for a better society free from
exploitation. In the past decades, IMSE was able to help for more than one
million people with its activities. Besides our successes, IMSE has
unfortunately also experienced a lot of negligence by society, resistance of
landowners and even serious threats and violence against IMSE activists.
IMSE has chosen the district of West Bengal as its field of activities. It
is impossible to describe the full history of IMSE, but with the following
overview of the activities of IMSE for the past decades, we hope to give you
a general view of our history that was so important to the current IMSE
organisation.
Vision
- A society based on democratic philosophy and food sovereignty
- Achieve a value oriented sustainable society based on social orientation,
economic growth, local capacity building and empowerment of people for a
complete social transformation.
- Reaching the unreached ones
- Popular participation
- Women as vital figure in programs
- Social awareness can be the major motivatorv
- Micro - Credit programs
Mission
IMSE motivate people towards self-employment. It fights for land reform,
provides loan to the poor especially women for small business, encourages
programs on health, sanitation, rights, gender issues and food for all.
IMSE`s mission is to end socio-economic exploitation by enabling people to
claim and exercise their egalitarian rights through social movements and
participate in democratic decision making and stimulate voluntarism among
people to organize the poor, deprived and exploited sections of society, to
create awareness so that they may raise their voices for a better society,
free from exploitation and where social justice prevail.
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