YODESS was started in the year 2002 in the East district of Sikkim, India as a social organization, but formally it had been registered under Societies Registration act of 1860 in the year 2006. Since inception, YODESS’s focus has been carried towards development of the poor, youth, women which activities have diversified in multiple developmental fields.
As one of the leading NGOs of the state of Sikkim, it has been able to work with confidence in
rural as well as urban and semi urban areas in collaboration with district
administrations, other government departments and developmental organizations. It aims to provide people from backward areas over the
opportunity to work in evaluated and credible NGOs in Sikkim. Programs are
selected that best match the skills, area of interest, expertise, with a view to strengthen and add value to the
ongoing work of NGOs social development sector. With a brief YODESS’s vision is to influence positive social change. The mission of YODESS is aiming to bridge the distance between people by
providing opportunities to individuals to influence positive social change
through an exchange of ideas, knowledge, skills and learning by facilitating
volunteering in Sikkim‘s social development sector. Volunteering was already happening, but, more could be done to benefit both the
volunteer as well as the NGO by providing them the right match to utilize their
skills in the best possible manner to the beneficiary’s advantage.
The outcome of YODESS’s
community development, implementing the principle of integration, has not been
achieved in isolation. It has been developed through the support and
contribution of many people of the society: those who were part of YODESS in
the past and those on the present, in this quest for human solidarity and
sharing: members of the committee, donors, volunteers, workers and well
wishers. So
far, YODESS’s work at the grassroots level on a variety of social issues
like mainly focusing on rural health & Natural Resource Management (NRM) /
agriculture / environment / water, but simultaneously it giving priority on education,
equal rights, social interaction and rural development etc. and have already
positively impacted the lives of thousands of people living in socially
deprived circumstances, many women have been helped by programs defending equal
rights, many children of all ages have had chances to develop through literacy
programs and other educational activities, many lives have been improved by
well-developed health and awareness programs, our ongoing investment in our
volunteering program will enable us to effectively and positively keep on
impacting the lives of many of India’s most disadvantaged people. YODESS has been operating on this
cusp and has played a confident role in helping the voluntary sector
understand. Even though this often resembles walking a tight rope, this
balancing act is crucial to building effective partnerships. In playing the support role one crucial aspect is building
the capacity of voluntary agencies as its core functions. Since started working on this issue and despite some interesting initiatives and programs over the past couple of years;
we are still some time away from the dream of a significant number of effective
voluntary agencies collaborating with the government on important issues of
human development. Both in terms of numbers of organizations with competence
and the environment for collaboration, which are the two issues on which YODESS has planned its
interventions, the task is still immense.
We are however conscious of it and are on that point
of the learning curve where with little effort we shall be able to scale up
initiatives to levels where we can begin to gain results fairly soon. The initial part of YODESS have thus been extremely
useful in experimenting in the field of development support in the rural context. The issue of partnerships in development is an
evolution of the thinking that YODESS was formed with. An important
change in the year under review has been on the governance side. The changes
have provided YODESS with a greater level of
professionalism and also an opportunity to bring into experiences.
YODESS Legal Status
As on today it has got Registered/affiliated/certified under:
YODESS
Tax exempted
YODESS Organogram
YODESS Governing Body Meet
Please click on the pic
for full screen view
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"We welcome you to provide & share your invaluable experience, guidance, suggestion and support to make the platform more prominent for the under developed
and disadvantaged sections"
We thanking you for your interest with YODESS
Management, YODESS
As one of the leading NGOs of the state of Sikkim, it has been able to work with confidence in rural as well as urban and semi urban areas in collaboration with district administrations, other government departments and developmental organizations. It aims to provide people from backward areas over the opportunity to work in evaluated and credible NGOs in Sikkim. Programs are selected that best match the skills, area of interest, expertise, with a view to strengthen and add value to the ongoing work of NGOs social development sector. With a brief YODESS’s vision is to influence positive social change. The mission of YODESS is aiming to bridge the distance between people by providing opportunities to individuals to influence positive social change through an exchange of ideas, knowledge, skills and learning by facilitating volunteering in Sikkim‘s social development sector. Volunteering was already happening, but, more could be done to benefit both the volunteer as well as the NGO by providing them the right match to utilize their skills in the best possible manner to the beneficiary’s advantage.
The outcome of YODESS’s community development, implementing the principle of integration, has not been achieved in isolation. It has been developed through the support and contribution of many people of the society: those who were part of YODESS in the past and those on the present, in this quest for human solidarity and sharing: members of the committee, donors, volunteers, workers and well wishers. So far, YODESS’s work at the grassroots level on a variety of social issues like mainly focusing on rural health & Natural Resource Management (NRM) / agriculture / environment / water, but simultaneously it giving priority on education, equal rights, social interaction and rural development etc. and have already positively impacted the lives of thousands of people living in socially deprived circumstances, many women have been helped by programs defending equal rights, many children of all ages have had chances to develop through literacy programs and other educational activities, many lives have been improved by well-developed health and awareness programs, our ongoing investment in our volunteering program will enable us to effectively and positively keep on impacting the lives of many of India’s most disadvantaged people. YODESS has been operating on this cusp and has played a confident role in helping the voluntary sector understand. Even though this often resembles walking a tight rope, this balancing act is crucial to building effective partnerships. In playing the support role one crucial aspect is building the capacity of voluntary agencies as its core functions. Since started working on this issue and despite some interesting initiatives and programs over the past couple of years; we are still some time away from the dream of a significant number of effective voluntary agencies collaborating with the government on important issues of human development. Both in terms of numbers of organizations with competence and the environment for collaboration, which are the two issues on which YODESS has planned its interventions, the task is still immense.
We are however conscious of it and are on that point of the learning curve where with little effort we shall be able to scale up initiatives to levels where we can begin to gain results fairly soon. The initial part of YODESS have thus been extremely useful in experimenting in the field of development support in the rural context. The issue of partnerships in development is an evolution of the thinking that YODESS was formed with. An important change in the year under review has been on the governance side. The changes have provided YODESS with a greater level of professionalism and also an opportunity to bring into experiences.
YODESS Legal Status
As on today it has got Registered/affiliated/certified under:
Nehru Yuva Kendra, Gangtok under Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt. of India in the year 2004
Societies Registration Act, XXI of 1860 in the year 2006
Confederation of NGOs of Rural India (CNRI), New Delhi in the year 2007
Voluntary Health Association of Sikkim (VHAS), Tadog, Gangtok, Sikkim in the year 2010
NPS of Planning Commission, Govt. of India in the year 2013
YODESS
Tax exempted
By
having PAN and registered under Section 12AA of Income Tax Act, 1961, Government of India in the year 2012.
YODESS Organogram
 |
| YODESS Governing Body Meet |
 |
| Please click on the pic for full screen view |
_______________________________________________________________________________________________
"We welcome you to provide & share your invaluable experience, guidance, suggestion and support to make the platform more prominent for the under developed
and disadvantaged sections"
We thanking you for your interest with YODESS
Management, YODESS
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