GOODWILL
SOCIAL WORK CENTRE,MADURAI,INDIA
Children's
rights through artwork project-A rights based programming combining
children's rights and artwork,India
Become a Partner and support our cause!
Become a Partner and support our cause!
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I.Introduction:
Goodwill Social Work Centre is an Indian Non-governmental organisation registered as a Society/Charity under the Tamilnadu Societies Registration Act 27 of 1975, Government of Tamilnadu {India} and Foreign Contribution (Regulations) Act 1976, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India in order to be eligible to receive donations from International funding organisations,Corporates and Individual donors. It is duly registered under section 12-A {b} of the Income Tax Act 1961. Our Society's Registration number is: 112/1981 and our FCRA number is : 075940124.You are invited to visit us at http://www.goodwillsocialworkcentre.org.
The term ‘Goodwill social work’ is a philosophy, a practice mode and an approach, which is preventative, rehabilitative and developmental in perspective and based on the principles of scientific humanism in line with the professional social work model. It combines social philanthropy, professional social work and social development. ‘Goodwill social work’ is inclusive where children, youth, men and women participate in the social and economic life of their communities. It attempts to treat the symptoms through social protection, remove as far as possible the barriers to better social outcomes and tackle the root causes through social investment. It is committed to a particular set of professional values of social work including respect for worth and dignity of every person, the client's right to self-determination, confidentiality, advocacy and social action that promotes social justice, which are reflected in the word 'GOODWILL' as shown below:
Goodwill Social Work Centre is an Indian Non-governmental organisation registered as a Society/Charity under the Tamilnadu Societies Registration Act 27 of 1975, Government of Tamilnadu {India} and Foreign Contribution (Regulations) Act 1976, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India in order to be eligible to receive donations from International funding organisations,Corporates and Individual donors. It is duly registered under section 12-A {b} of the Income Tax Act 1961. Our Society's Registration number is: 112/1981 and our FCRA number is : 075940124.You are invited to visit us at http://www.goodwillsocialworkcentre.org.
The term ‘Goodwill social work’ is a philosophy, a practice mode and an approach, which is preventative, rehabilitative and developmental in perspective and based on the principles of scientific humanism in line with the professional social work model. It combines social philanthropy, professional social work and social development. ‘Goodwill social work’ is inclusive where children, youth, men and women participate in the social and economic life of their communities. It attempts to treat the symptoms through social protection, remove as far as possible the barriers to better social outcomes and tackle the root causes through social investment. It is committed to a particular set of professional values of social work including respect for worth and dignity of every person, the client's right to self-determination, confidentiality, advocacy and social action that promotes social justice, which are reflected in the word 'GOODWILL' as shown below:
G
stands for goodness in all we do for the community
O stands for overflowing with love, compassion, and peace
O stands for outpouring care for others, especially
children, youth and their families
D stands for dutifulness in helping others to help themselves
W stands for willingness to serve the poor and downtrodden
I stands for integrating professionalism in social work practice
L stands for linking itself to serve locally and globally
L stands for lighting up the face of the less fortunate and the
unfortunate
O stands for overflowing with love, compassion, and peace
O stands for outpouring care for others, especially
children, youth and their families
D stands for dutifulness in helping others to help themselves
W stands for willingness to serve the poor and downtrodden
I stands for integrating professionalism in social work practice
L stands for linking itself to serve locally and globally
L stands for lighting up the face of the less fortunate and the
unfortunate
Since
its inception our organisation has been working in the areas of
children's rights, children’s rights through artwork, Children’s
environmental health rights, humanitarian aid, Intensive family
preservation of dysfunctional families, Youth and women development,
non-formal employment training for youth, community technology
services, environment education and action, social research,, NGO
capacity building and networking and NGO consultancy. GOODWILL is
highly professional in its approach and its methods are underpinned
by a strong academic research ethos. Highly impressed by the
professionalism in GOODWILL’s governance and management of
programmes,the Global Links Initiative(www.glinet.org)
,a registered company and a charity
in the United Kingdom had entered into a partnership agreement with
GOODWILL on 6th October 2007 to work together to provide services and
capacity building programmes for GLI Networkers in Tamilnadu,India.
II.
Our rights based programming for children at a glance:
1.Children's
rights through artwork project-A rights based programming
combining children's rights and artwork
As
part of our Children's rights through artwork project supported by
ART VENTURE,Singapore, Goodwill social work centre has formed
'Children's rights through artwork groups' of girls and boys who are
in the 7-17 years of age with a view to building a holistic
understanding the United Nations Convention on the rights of the
child and various children's rights and the issues which affect
children,combing arts with a study of the UN convention on the rights
of children as a way to promote children’s understanding of their
legal status in society and developing art skills, improve self
confidence and enhance creative and enjoyment in the arts and to know
of their rights to childhood.Through the formation of artwork groups
a social awareness is created among the children and local
communities as well concerning various rights based issues namely
poverty,education,food and nutrition, health and shelter
,peace,discrimination,disability,child labour,armed conflicts,
sexual exploitation, environment,violence against
children,media,children in conflict with law.
Children
are trained in various forms of arts namely water
colouring,painting,pencil sketching, oil on canvas Painting,miniature
painting, cartooning and computer graphics,pottery painting,portrait
and figure drawing ,floor painting – rangoli and kollam,crayons
and oil pastel work,modern painting,clay modeling,glass
painting,Tanjore painting,pencil drawing, pot painting and embossed
painting, folk arts and dances,which are used to portray and convey
messages relating to children's rights to
survival,protection,development and participation that are enshrined
in the UN Convention of the rights of the child. Children learn of
the various issues and concerns which affect them through their
active participation in the artwork.The most celebrated forms of folk
arts used in the training include Kuravan- kurathi Aattam(Gypsy
dance), Bharathanatyam(classical dance), Karagaattam(with a brass
vessel on head), Peacock dance,Dummy Horse Dance dance,Dummy Bull
dance, kavadiattam,kollattam(using two batons), Puppetry, Oyilaattam
(Ribbon dance), folk songs etc. In point of fact, the art painting
and folk art media serve as power tools to promote and propagate the
rights of children among the children and local communities. Children
in these artwork groups not only get themselves empowered but also
sensitise other children to their rights and needs and also adults
as to their responsibility in protecting and promoting the ethos of
'Children First' through their artwork.
The
artwork of our children's groups may viewed at our web albums and
video links:
http://picasaweb.google.com/chrisdangswc/ChildrenSRightsThroughArtworkGroupGSWCMaduraiIndia?feat=directlink
The
Children's rights through artwork is a unique project which is aimed
empowering children in the age group of 7-17 with information on
their rights,developing skills in them in arts and learning to
combine arts with the study on their rights and inspiring them to
discover their unique talents through a variety of hands-on workshops
in arts and crafts and folk arts. These children put their creative
energy into their artistic expression. They show a high level of
creativity in their artwork and a inner-connective knowledge and
awareness of child rights issues and concern which affect them and
children worldwide.
2.GOODWILL'S children give water a voice to promote the right to water in International poster contests organised by NV-OC,USA,2008- 2009
2.GOODWILL'S children give water a voice to promote the right to water in International poster contests organised by NV-OC,USA,2008- 2009
Through
our Children's Rights Centre our organisation is able to take up
children's rights through artwork supported by ART VENTURE,Singapore
and a Rain centre for local children and communities supported by
Nature's voice-Our choice,USA. A phenomenal achievement is that five
students from our children's rights through artwork programme were
selected as winners at the international poster contest 2008 on theme
'What Water Means in my Life' organised by the Nature's Voice-Our
Choice,USA. The following web album links may be viewed to see our
five International poster contest winners and our winners at the
preliminary poster contests held in Madurai,Tamilnadu,India
Three of our children from Madurai,India (out of six non US international students) under our 'Children's rights through artwork project' supported by ART VENTURE,Singapore have been declared as International poster contest winners at the Second annual International Poster Contest 2009 sponsored by Nature's Voice-Our Choice,USA.
As
part of our art training programme for children we conducted a series
of poster contests on the themes 'Water and Culture" and 'right
to environment' for school children from February,15, 2009 to March
10, 2009 in and around Madurai,Tamilnadu,India.Of 2440 posters made
by children, 966 posters were selected for submission to the Nature's
Voice-Our choice,USA for the 2009 World water Day International
Poster contest.It
is a proud moment for GOODWILL to make known that three children
under the Children's rights through artwork project have been
selected as international poster contest winners.
Of
3000 children from 8 different countries and throughout the United
States participated in the Second annual International Poster
Contest 2009 sponsored by Nature's Voice-Our Choice ,USA. Of 12
children were selected as International poster contest winners 3
children are from Goodwill Social work Centre,Madurai,India. Our
Three winners and their winning posters can be viewed at our web
album link:
Invitation
to check out URL
http://www.naturesvoice-ourchoice.org/students-give-water-a-voice.html
from
the website of Nature's Voice-Our Choice,USA
It
is a proud moment for us to share this URL:
http://www.naturesvoice-ourchoice.org/students-give-water-a-voice.html, from
the website of Nature's Voice-Our Choice,USA, which contains
information on our children under our 'Children's rights through
artwork project' giving water a voice at the world water day
International poster contests 2008 and 2009 organised by the Nature's
Voice-Our Choice,USA. Five children from our project were selected as
International poster contest winners at the 2008 poster contest and
three children at the 2009 International poster contest. You may
please check out the video in the URL to see our children at artwork.
Please click on “Students awards and recognition” to view our web
album about the award distribution function organised by Goodwill
Social Work Centre,Madurai,India.
The Children's rights through artwork is a unique project which is aimed empowering children in the age group of 7-17 with information on their rights,developing skills in them in arts and learning to combine arts with the study on their rights and inspiring them to discover their unique talents through a variety of hands-on workshops in arts and crafts and folk arts. These children put their creative energy into their artistic expression. They show a high level of creativity in their artwork and a inner-connective knowledge and awareness of child rights issues and concern which affect them and children worldwide.
The Children's rights through artwork is a unique project which is aimed empowering children in the age group of 7-17 with information on their rights,developing skills in them in arts and learning to combine arts with the study on their rights and inspiring them to discover their unique talents through a variety of hands-on workshops in arts and crafts and folk arts. These children put their creative energy into their artistic expression. They show a high level of creativity in their artwork and a inner-connective knowledge and awareness of child rights issues and concern which affect them and children worldwide.
Goodwill
social Work Centre believes that the art painting,murals,art models
they make and the learning of children rights through folk arts and communication applications(traditional and modern) will
make an impact on children and inspire them to become more
proactive in the protection and promotion of children's rights,which
is an adult obligation .
Become a partner of Goodwill Social Work
Centre and support our cause!
We
strongly realise the need for replicating this rights based
programming to cover more children and local communities in India
in promoting the rights of children through artwork.We invite
partnership initiative from potential donors and funding
organisations who might be interested in supporting this innovative
project for children in India.
Prof.Dr.J.Christopher
Daniel,M.A.,Ph.D
Executive Director
Goodwill social work centre
No:5,South
street Extension
Singarayar
colony
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