AHEAD INITIATIVES

AHEAD initiatives was founded by a group of seven members with collectively many decades of experience in Rural Development stretching from exemplary grassroots Action Research & Capacity Building to successful Advocacy who presently constitute the Board of Directors. It has been constituted as a Not-for-Profit Association under Section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956 to ensure greater transparency, accountability and monitoring which would help inspire public confidence and participation. It hopes to transform itself into a widely held Not-for-Profit Association which, while focusing on basic issues of Hunger will also endeavour to bridge the cultural divide and work towards redefining a more sustainable development paradigm. The main objectives as per its Memorandum of Association are to: 1) Alleviate poverty by addressing hunger and food insecurity as the primary focus of its development endeavour 2) Engage with development in the context and through the medium of human cultures 3) Promote a society where people of diverse cultures are able to define their own development paradigm and fulfil their economic, social, cultural and spiritual aspirations