“The highest prayer in this world is service. The greatest devotion is loving the people around us and the noblest character trait is divine compassion for all living creatures.” - Swami Chinmayananda

 

 

Chinmaya Seva: Seva with a Difference.

 

Our Goal: Spiritual transformation for both the sevak and the recipients. 

 

Vision: To facilitate integrated and sustainable development in rural India through self empowerment processes

 

CORD – www.cord.org.in

 

Chinmaya Organisation for Rural Development(CORD) was Initiated by Poojya Gurudev in 1985. Rural Development in undertaken in Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Srilanka with assistance from Indian Govt., Canada & USA

 

Participatory, Integrated Activities of CORD:

 

Community Based Livelihood in the farm and allied sector

 

Access to Microfinance, Financial empowerment through self-help groups Social Justice and Gender sensitization

Mahila Mandals

Strengthening Local Self-Governance

Health, Nutrition & hygiene

Social Justice and Informal Legal Cell

Community Inclusion and Rehabilitation

Adult Literacy

Alcohol Abuse Awareness & Management

Participatory Natural Resource Management

Balavihar & Yuva Mandals

Reaching out to 726 villages within 275 Panchayats in India serving 50,000 people directly and five million indirectly.

 

Chinmaya Samaj Sevak Course - A course to get trained systematically in rural development work. 

Chinmaya Vijaya - Orphanage for Girls at Vijaywada, Andhrapradesh. Founded by Dr. Apparao & Sumati Mukkamala. Inaugurated in 2007. 114 girls are growing up here. 

 

Design Notes

 

Social Service, Cultural Preservation, Patriotic & Universal Vision

 

The display for this section has been designed specifically to allow refreshing/replacement of the visual content.

Each of the subsection is a composition of circular visual montage panels with text, of varying radii around a central circular panel of metaphoric significance that represents the subsection’s core value.

The Sun is used as the metaphor for Lok Seva, surrounded by panels for CORD, Chinmaya Hospital and Chinmaya Vijaya.

The OM is used as the metaphor for Dharma Nishta, surrounded by panels for CIF, Temples, Chinmaya Purohit course and Chinmaya Dharma Vir & Dharma Sevak CourseDharma Vir course. The Ashoka Chakra is used as the metaphor for Desha Bhakti, surrounded by panels for recent activities taken up by the Mission