Our Values
ACID’s foremost ambition is to respect the dignity of each and every marginalized and vulnerable individual,
to empower them so that they can become self-reliant and self-respectful.
ACID acts as both the bearer and the facilitator of the following values:
INTEGRITY : The organization follow and act according to the highest standards of loyalty
and behavior, never compromising the reputation and always acting for the best of the marginalized and vulnerable communities and
children. It maintains transparency and never makes fake promises to its beneficiaries.
ACCOUNTABILITY : ACID has taken up the entire responsibility to use the resources efficiently,
and has achieved results more than what was expected and are also accountable to its partners and supporters, target groups and mostly
children.
PROFESSIONALISM : The members are efficient and effective in delivering the implement projects
on time and by conducting regular follow ups.
RESPONSIBILITY : The members work selflessly to uplift the social and economic conditions of
their beneficiaries .They have also developed some connection with the stakeholders.
PASSION : The members are compassionate towards their approach while implementing projects for
each marginalized and vulnerable communities. They value all their beneficiaries, especially children. Heart and brain are the important
organs of human body, so all of them adopt extra measures to sponsor and nurture every child to achieve fulfillment and full health in life.
PARTNERSHIP : ACID respects each of its partners and supporters. With their support the members
have been successful in implementing projects and supporting the marginalized and vulnerable communities. It respect and value everybody,
and work with constant support of its partners to make a significant difference for children and marginalized and vulnerable communities.
PARTICIPATION : The organization encourages and involves participation from all levels in decision
making processes and in managing day to day activities. It values the decision of children and the community members.
LEARNING :The members are ready to learn new things and approaches. They constantly try their level
best to adopt themselves to new social approaches of dealing with various issues. They are committed towards result oriented outcome through
constant monitoring and evaluation activities and learning new methods as well for the improvement of outcome.
CREATIVITY :We love new ideas and always like to innovate, learn and implement new things and accept
change for sustainability and development of children and marginalized and vulnerable communities.
PROACTIVITY :The members are always active and efficient with responses and have never gave up adopting
newer approaches regarding various issues.
Cyclone YAAS has devastated the lives of vulnerable and extremely poor communities in Hingalganj and destroyed
infrastructure, thousands of houses, agricultural field, assets, life and livelihoods. People - men, women,
elderly and children are homeless with empty stomach, looking for safer places. Saline water has come inside the
villages and agricultural fields due to breach of embankments in several locations. It’s a very upsetting and
painful scenario; we stand in solidarity with these families and communities..jpg)
Chanda Mondal, her husband and their six years old daughter, live in Dakshin Gobindakati village of Hingalganj
block in North 24 Pargana. Her husband lost his low-salary job and returned lately, since lockdown started.
On the night of the cyclone Amphan they were in their mud-house and at around 1:30 AM, they shifted to a nearby
concrete building to take shelter for the night as the thrashing wind shook their house and the over flown pond
water reached their door-step. Next day morning, they found, their mud house in a crumbled situation. They have
lost most of their belongings along with their daughter's books and essential documents. Now they are living in
a tent made out of tarpauline and can not avail any aid from local government authorities since they have lost
those documents.
A national workshop "Problem of Accessibility in Primary Education by Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward
Classes: A Study in Hingalganj Block" & "Impact Study on Sponsorship Programme of FADV: A Study of their Partner Organizations
in West-Bengal and Assam" organized by the Department of Social Work, Visva-Bharati in association with Fondazione l'Albero
della Vita (FADV) and Andrewspalli Centre for Integrated Development (ACID) on 17th August' 2016 at Conference Hall ,
Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. Participation from FADV partner organization, save the children, Students and Professors from
Visva-Bharati University, UNPECT international and other national level NGOs are presented in that workshop. The study report
was also published in this workshop written by Dr. Sukumar Pal and Mr. Neelmani Jaysawal.
A team from Italy namely The Goodfellas Travel Team had visited in our project area from 10th to 11th August to see our livelihood
and sponsorship projects, interacted with project beneficiaries and communities to acquire first hand knowledge on how people are
getting benefited from the interventions. They interacted with the 'Padmabati' Self Help Group in Jogeshganj village and also their
activities like fishing, vegetable cultivation, livestock farming etc. They also visited in our Samsernagar tuition centre, interact
with students and suggest them to learn English for better communication with them.
Mrs. Samprita Sengupta, Programme Managar of the Sponsorship project made monitoring visit in Hingalganj project area. She visited 50
new children house and filled up the bio data form and also taken photographs in Gobindakathi village. She interacted with parents of
the Gobindakathi tuition centre and talk about importance of parental care at home. In Madhavkathi tuition centre she observed teaching
learning method using puzzle, games, and local resources. She taught children spoken English and how they should interact with newcomer.
She had meeting with Sponsorship project team of ACID and set plan of action for the year 2017.
Dr. Maity and Dr. Mondal made monitoring visit of their research project on demonstration of resilient livelihood activities in saline
soil collaboration with ACID. They conducted training on rice and vegetable production in Jogeshganj project site office of ACID. They
organized a demonstration programme on rice seed purification by using water and salt to increase the production of rice. They also made
field visit and interacted with farmers to solve problems regarding vegetable cultivation. They had also conduct meeting with DRR project
coordinator and discuss about vermicompost kit and agricultural survey in the 12 villages of Hingalganj Block.
