Kora foundation is an organisation registered in 2010 under the Andhra Pradesh Societies Registration Act, 2001 (Act) No 35 of 2001.
Aims and Objectives
To develop, encourage and promote Indian crafts, hand looms and local skills all over the country.
To train, educate, assist, promote crafts people and create facilities for crafts people.
To train and create self-reliant craft groups who are able to take responsibility for their own design, production, accounting and marketing and work towards the removal of social prejudices of gender, caste, religion and profession
To take up research and documentation in traditional and potential crafts, activities, technology and resources anywhere in India.
To aim to preserve traditional arts of the region by making them culturally and economically viable.
To assist craftspeople to use their own skills as a means of employment, income generation and economic self sufficiency and improve other aspects of their lives such as education, health and nutrition.
To provide space and a catalyst for women’s employment through crafts.
To connect rural livelihood skills to the market in an equitable way and contribute to the development of an Indian urban market, foreign export market for hand looms and handicrafts through the design, diversification, technology and production of competitive products and publicity for and display of crafts products in urban areas.
To establish projects for the re-settlement, rehabilitation and improvement of the economic conditions of the weaker sections of the community anywhere in India.
To provide organize, maintain, develop control and conduct projects in the field of tourism, Health and family welfare, environment and tribal welfare in different states of India.
To accept, hold or administer any gift donation or contribution in kind or money and whether upon trust or not and to undertake and execute any trust which may be deemed conductive to any of the objects of the society.
To take such steps by personal or written appeals or by advertisements or the holding of exhibitions, displays or competition or otherwise as may from time to time be deemed expedient for the purpose of publishing the functions and activities of the find of the society, in the share of donations, subscriptions or otherwise.
To purchase, take on loan lease or in exchange or otherwise acquire an movable or immovable property, rights or privileges which may be deemed necessary, expedient or desirable for any of the objects of the society.
To establish maintain, control, conduct and close down branches or representations of the society in any places in India and on such terms as the Board of management may from time to time deem expedient or necessary.
To subscribe to or aid financially or otherwise benevolent, charitable, philanthropic or otherwise institutions or objects of a public character or which have any moral or otherwise claims to support or aid from the society by reason of the locality of its operation or otherwise.
To enter into and carry out arrangements for joint working, or for amalgamation with any other association, society or institution having similar objects or within the objectives of the society in India, or to carry on all the activities pensioned there in the aims and objectives of the society anywhere in India.
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To negotiate and enter into any agreement with any government, state, chamber of commerce, Municipality or any ;other public or private authority which may be conductive or beneficial to any of the objects of the society or to be intended to be enhanced, improve or render more efficient any property right, privilege, work or activity of the society.
To improve moral, cultural, social, agricultural and economic prosperity and understanding of humanity.
To help the needy children, aged, physically handicapped, mentally retarded, widows, orphans and other destitute and to promote all welfare activities in providing a status and dignity for them in the society.
To promote, develop and implement various projects and programs for the socio-economic enlistment of the rural, urban and suburban poor and destitute.
To attend and help the poor patients, T.B., Cancer, Blindness, Deafness and Dumbness, etc. and to provide them with needed medical aid Assistance.
To provide nutritious food for the needy and poor children, lactating mothers and aged and other disabled in the rural, urban and slum areas.
To help and to undertake relief and rehabilitation programs for the victims of natural calamities like floods, cyclones, droughts, earthquakes, and fire accidents.
To organize seminars, conferences, and literary and cultural activities and to undertake research woke to benefit the various sections of the human society.
To collaborate with other agencies and society in India and abroad interested in similar objectives for promoting the welfare to the needy poor.
To collaborate with other agencies and society in India and abroad interested in similar objectives for promoting the family welfare, AIDS awareness and better hygiene and health.
To promote self-help, self-employment and economic development projects including agricultural and irrigation projects for improving food production and to help farmers, rural artisans and agricultural laborers.
To undertake formal non-formal and adult education programs to educate the poor.
To promote community Development Programs.
To provide free legal advice and assistance for the poor.
To help the poor children for their education providing scholarships and maintain schools, hostels and other institutions to benefit them.
To create awareness among the downtrodden people and for the upliftment of their living standard.
To create promote and implement income generating programs to benefit the poor and needy.
To do all such things and to perform all such acts as may be necessary or proper for the achievement of any or all of the above objects.
