Coro
About Us:
Over the last three decades, CORO has developed a community-based approach to facilitating change from within India's most marginalised and oppressed.
Vision- To create a society based on equality and justice with no discrimination based on caste, gender, class, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and age, amongst other factors.
Mission - We work to build a world based on equality and social justice by working with the most marginalized communities on facilitating leadership from within these communities to steer rights (entitlements) based, collective actions for social change.
CORO was formed with the aim of propagating adult literacy in the slums of Mumbai. Literacy was seen as a tool to mobilise marginalised people to solve their own issues. CORO was established primarily by privileged individuals (eg upper caste, well-educated people from different social organisations) who came from outside the community. Over the last 25 years it has evolved into a grassroots-owned organisation led, shaped and managed predominantly by Scheduled Caste and Muslim women and men.
Issues:- Grassroots leadership, gender education, empowering women, regional campaigns
