Who Are We

Concern for Community is a Social organisation formed in 2001 to work in rural areas amongst poorest of the poor in India’s north eastern region, and other parts of the country. In the initial stages of our mission, we wanted to concentrate on education more than in any other sectors of our focus areas, because we strongly felt that education, particularly to the girl child, was one of the surest way of removing poverty and thereby reducing instances of conflict. However, we soon realised that condition of abject poverty was pushing the tribal people, who are otherwise the natural guardians of the forests, into destroying the forests even as their livelihood hinges on the forest itself. Therefore, from 2014 onwards, we took up the issue of environment protection alongside education as “priority focus areas”.  We however, continue to work on other areas such as women health, preservation & protection of tribal culture, empowerment of women etc. CFC’s outreach is primarily through spreading awareness, carried out mainly by conducting campaigns, health camps, financial assistance for schooling of children from poor families through payment of fees, purchase of books and uniforms etc. We also conduct free health camps to educate women on child health and health and the health of their family members, giving emphasis on sanitation, cleanliness and safe drinking water. Awareness campaigns are also conducted to educate the rural population on ill effects of deforestation and eco-system degradation. We encourage Social forestry with the help of village organisations, women groups, clubs and Church bodies in villages we target. We train young volunteers to be leaders of tomorrow.