- Creating awareness of the difficulties and injustices faced by so many in Kolkata and the work that we do here at HOPE. This means voicing issues and solutions to local government, local and global societies, and working within the communities facing these challenges to empower individuals and effect lasting change.
- Helping to develop local organizations and people who work with the needy in Kolkata. Empowering them to build long term sustainable solutions, increasing expertise and efficiency.
It’s about building sustainable solutions and ensuring the providers of support services, both people and institutions, are helped and supported in their long term development and growth.
The Hope Foundation realise that focusing purely on practical programmes and solutions, without looking closely at the organizations that manage them, is short sighted and superficial.
Building the capacities of individuals, organizations and institutions is vital for the strengthening of civil society and grassroots development. By increasing the capacity of organizations involved in development, interventions can be made more effective and their results longer lasting.
In response to this need, The Hope Foundation regularly organizes capacity building programmes for institutions and individuals. These provide training and the tools needed to effectively assess their own information needs, set their own priorities and build their own information systems. This program has been developed in conjunction with the Jayaprakash Institute of Social Change (JPISC), a respected college in Kolkata.