Who we are
The Identity
Fransalian Association for Social Transformation is a non-profit, non-governmental, secular, voluntary organization started in 2021 to foster integrated empowerment of individuals and communities. It is the organized and explicit expression of the Missionaries of St. Francis De Sales (MSFS) of the Dibrugarh Province towards the social, economic and educational empowering of individuals and communities, particularly the marginalized and needy in the rural and urban, tribal and non-tribal conglomerations of the states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Manipur, through integral empowerment and education.
Core Values
Our core values underpin the way in which we behave and go about our purpose. They are clearly expressed through our thinking, behaviour and decision-making – together they establish our working organization culture. Values lie at the heart of what brings people together in order to accomplish a common aim or task. People join with others who share and are motivated by the same values. Values drive behavior, both individuals and organizations. While all believers and Christian organizations hold to certain common values, ministries have a set of core values that drive organizational behaviour.
Our Commitment
We acquainted that values cannot be legislated; they must be lived or practiced. No document can substitute for the attitudes, decisions and actions that make up the fabric of our life and work. Therefore, we pledge with each other, before God, to do our utmost for anyone and as Partnership to uphold these Core Values, to honour them in our decisions, to express them in our relationships and to act consistently with them whatever and wherever we are at service.
Our Focus
We place the marginalized communities and persons in the centre because we know that we cannot overcome poverty until all people have equal rights and opportunities. Service beyond Self, Respect for Human Rights, Human Dignity, Eco-Sensitivity, Peace, Justice, Equity, Truth, Honesty, Trust, Transparency, Participation and Responsiveness.
Thrust Area
The following are the thrust areas of Fransalian Association for Social Transformation: Social Justice, Education, Women Empowerment, Child Welfare, Skill Training of Youth, Urban and Rural Development, Environment, Health and Sanitation, Water Harvesting, Livelihood, AIDS Control Programme, Social Studies and Research, Community Based Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities, Campaign against Substance Abuse, Legal Aid.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVE
The, Fransalian Association for Social Transformation, society shall, without any distinction of caste, creed, colour, community or religion, interalia, work with the following broad objectives:
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To promote spiritual, temporal, cultural, educational, agricultural, social and other Interests of the said congregation of St. Francis De Sales in the North Eastern States of India, of the institutions under their charge, and of the people who work with them and for whom they work.
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To establish, administer and run educational institutions for improving education for all, irrespective of caste, creed, gender or language, to enable the educated to gather systematic knowledge, skills, attitudes and the results thereof.
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To provide residential accommodations either free of cost or consideration or to educate, train and assist financially or otherwise in the education and training of members of the public, students, staff, social workers, teachers, aspirants, officials and other personals for the purpose of the society.
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To collaborate with other persons, groups, organizations or agencies to promote spiritual moral, social and cultural and other human values and to educate, encourage and support and help in any manner for the betterment of people everywhere.
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To build, construct, acquire, takeover, establish, maintain, provide manage and run educational, technical and vocational training-cum production centers, convents, orphanages, hospitals, and dispensaries, schools, hostels, residential schools, places of worship, centers and facilities for promotion of studies and research in religion, aspirant houses, novitiates, seminaries for the training of their personnel, philosophy, theology, science, agriculture, horticulture, sericulture, plantation and estates, animal husbandry and other fields.
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To propagate, contribute, improve assist or aid in the promotion of general welfare and physical, mental, material, spiritual, moral and cultural advancement of general public for all, irrespective of their caste, creed, gender, or language.
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To aid, assist, guide, finance, undertake and carry all sustainable care, gender quality, economic development, education, environment, family welfare, health, nutrition, social development, and appropriate technology in any manner as may be deemed expedient.
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To perform and take up activities in the sphere of health and family welfare for attaining general awareness for the abuses of alcohol, drugs, and other substance-addiction and other social evils and to provide assistance and support to the needy, sick, poor, weak, downtrodden, old, and handicapped and in any manner as may be deemed expedient.