Who we are

The Organisation

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Vision & Mission

Vision
Every individual is empowered to lead a meaningful & quality life, attains new heights of excellence in whatever he/she desires to do & also help fellow human being to attain the same

Mission
To build empowered youth committed to the wellbeing of the fellow human beings and to encourage them to create a better world.

The Objectives

• To initiate Indian Youth Movement through strengthening of local youth’s organizations and to inculcate a spirit of pro-activeness in dealing with the aspirations, problems and challenges facing the youth in general and rural youth in particular.
• Youth’s organizations under the Indian Youth Movement will work towards finding out the solutions of the societal problems and take on challenges to fight against evils, corrupt practices, factors contributing divide in the society, and work towards realizing the vision and mission of greater equity & justice in the society
• To provide opportunities to the youth to come up with "out of box" solutions to the local, national and international problems and work on them
• To identify the hidden talents in all spheres, specially from the rural areas and provide enough space and opportunities for growth so as to attain a new heights
• To nurture children and youth and provide opportunities for innovation, experimentation and for creating new path and challenging the existing beliefs and practices which are detrimental to the societal growth
• To create and build centres of excellence in the field of education, sports, culture, scientific inventions, leadership development so as to develop in youth the qualities of discipline, respect for justice, sporting spirit and a scientific temperament in their thinking and action
• To mobilize the socially motivated people, (be it children, youth, professionals, labourers, "retired but not tired ones- all)" of the society to bring on to a common platform to create a critical force for societal transformation
• To work towards finding out in-situ solution of the local problems which would be culturally and environmentally acceptable
• To work towards Positive Imagining of the community and the society
• To network with like minded organizations, institutions, networks, alliances working on the issues of children & youth
• To encourage and promote participation of youth in community led processes and motivating them to act as catalysts for desired social change
• Channelize energy of the youth towards building a better world

The Distinguishing features

• The Board members are distinguished in their own areas of work. The members are from social field, media, academician, teachers, IT professional and represent different parts of India.
• Initiatives under Matribhumi will be based on voluntarily basis/contribution and volunteerism will form the organizational process
• It will neither receive a large donation, fund from any individual, institution and organization, nor will it support any formal or non-formal organization financially
• It will raise its own resources and work towards the set vision, mission and the objective
• Local initiatives under Matribhumi will be undertaken with local contribution, donations and voluntary actions and will not be based on any large external support
• Financial contributions, donations will be used for the purpose defined in the bye-laws of Matribhumi and will not form the part of administrative expenses in normal course
• It will not be restricted to certain issues, themes as such. Primary work will be to motivate, mobilize, capacitate, empower youth to take on the local problems, challenges faced by the youth itself in particular and society in general
• The activity of the organization will be based on the dream of the local people and will not have any fixed package of programmes. Mostly it will depend on the initiatives of the youth organization.
• To reduce the administrative expenses, it will operate through virtual office and the Trustee and the board members are responsible/ accountable for the functioning of the organization.

The Idea

The youth of India, representing one third of our population, constitutes a vital and vibrant human resource. Youth shapes its own destiny and carves the future of the society of which it is a part and hence is the source of energy for societal actions and transformations. Change in the socio-economic base and the political fabric of the Indian society in the process of globalization has affected, to a large extent, the youth force, specially in the rural area. In the process, creativity and potential of the youth too has suffered. At the same time, burdened with undue and heavy responsibilities, the youth is losing its youthfulness, creativity and potential.

Today's youth are disheartened, frustrated and directionless. There are only few to guide and streamline the energies of youth towards constructive processes.

Youth tend to dream, build high ideals, are attracted to adventures, innovations, experimentation and are not averse to taking risks .Their dreams, innovations and experimentation are not restricted to themselves but include the nation and the entire humanity. Need is to shape the dreams and provide opportunities to realize their dreams. They have a right, as well as an obligation, to participate actively in national development processes and in shaping the destiny of the nation and in turn shape their own destiny. The need, therefore, is to create increasing opportunities for the Youth to develop their inner self and their functional capabilities so as to make them economically productive and socially empowered. In this back-drop, Matribhumi, with the world view of local knowledge, culture & socially relevant traditions, experiential learnings of the region will inform all programmes of action enabling the youth to build and strengthen the society for greater equity and justice.

Matribhumi believes that youth have a special role to play in building the society and the nation. With their indomitable courage and dynamic creativity, they can overcome the existing challenges of the society. All they need is proper guidance and opportunities to develop and maximise their potentials, sharpen their talent, build their commitments and skills so that their service to the society are explored and utilized.

The Genesis

The desire to establish an institution-"MATRIBHUMI" is fueled by ours dream to build our own motherland (birth-place) through youth’s action. We, the few, who had an opportunity to grow physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually (?) are lucky ones and we suppose, in turn it is our moral obligation/ duty to pay back through our services to the motherland. This is an initiative to bring together all the individuals having similar dreams, desires and commitments and make the world a better place live and respire in.

Matribhumi is a forum of all such individuals/ collectives who are troubled by the plight of their own people, are concerned about the pain and sufferings of their own people and wish to do something about it and invest in the development of his/her area & the people. Matribhumi is a forum of all those who are willing to take up the challenge of bringing change in the state of their own native place and the people. It is an organization that reflects their aspirations, desires and needs and gives them an opportunity to directly shape their own destiny. Whoever you are, if you have a passion for the wellbeing of the community of which you are a part, then you are a part of Matribhumi. You too can make a big difference to your community! You can join the group of committed youth who are trying hard to bring about positive changes in the society.

Matribhumi as an institution is registered under the Indian Trust Act, 1882 to facilitate development and cultural activities among youth for bringing about positive changes in the lives of people. It gives special attention to the more disadvantaged youth of remote rural areas. In this backdrop, Matribhumi focuses on the "YOUTH" as a constituency of its work.