MASUM - NGO

MASUM is an NGO and I was associated with this NGO while I was in Pune. For the Exemplary work which this NGO does, I was bound to write about it on my Blog. If this interest you or you wish to get associated for an NGO, feel free to contact MASUM's office and there are many needful people who would require you help, case and assistance.


1. Name of the organisation : Mahila Sarvangeen Utkarsh Mandal (MASUM)

2. Registration : Registered with Charity Commissioner, Pune region.
Registration Number - E/ 1284 / (Pune)

About MASUM

MASUM is a non-profit organization working in the rural areas of Purandar (Pune District) and Parner (Ahmednagar District) Blocks of Maharashtra with the oppressed, marginalised and minority groups with an emphasis on their participation in all activities and programmes. It aims at creating awareness about various forms of exploitation and abuse faced by the underprivileged and the minority groups in the community and help them organize themselves to deal with such violations. MASUM is a development group with a feminist perspective and a democratic approach. MASUM works mainly on the issues of Health, Domestic Violence, Women's Resource Development and Self-Employment, and Capacity building with rights approach.

MASUM's objectives :

· To make women self reliant and conscious of their human and constitutional rights and to put pressure on the state for fulfilling its obligation towards its people.

· To nurture women's physical and emotional health.

· To provide vocational training and credit facilities to women for self-employment.

· To create a sustainable and humane mode of development through people's active involvement in rural Maharashtra.

· To create a progressive space in society for all it's deprived people, and to specifically resist casteism, sexism, religious chauvinism and homophobia.

· To work towards the elimination of discrimination, inequality, intolerance and violence - both, within and outside the home.

· To work towards the creation of a society based on equality, freedom, democracy, diversity and peace.


MASUM is headed by a board of trustees including Ms. Nirmala Sathe (chairperson), Dr.Ramesh Awasthi, Ms. Manisha Gupte, Mr. Anwar Rajan and Ms. Anita Borkar.

The organization has a staff strength of about 65 people - rural and urban. As a policy MASUM gives priority to employing people from minority and marginalized groups.

Contact Persons : Dr. Ramesh Awasthi (Trustee and Co-Convener) - 09960807276
Ms. Manisha Gupte (Trustee and Co-Convener) - 09890870120

Contact details :

B1-41 Kubera Vihar,
Hadapsar Gadital,
Pune – 411028,
Maharashtra.


Tel – 91-20-26995625
91-20-26995633


SASWAD OFFICE

Mahalsakant Society,
Kodit Naka,
Saswad,
Purandar Taluka,
Pune District,
Maharashtra
India

Tel:- 02115-22969/33 (917-22969 from Pune City)


MALSHIRAS REGISTERED OFFICE

At Post Malshiras, (Bhuleshwar),
Purandar Taluka,
Pune District,
Maharashtra
India

Tel:- 02115-262167 (917-262167 from Pune City)

RALEGAN OFFICE

Gramin Mahiti Kendra(MASUM),
At Post Ralegan Sidhi,
Parner Taluka,
Ahmednagar District,
Maharashtra
India.

Tel:- 02488-40-221



Email : masumfp@vsnl.com
masum.puneindia@gmail.com

Website : http://www.masum-india.org/