About Us

About Us

Goodwill Social Work Centre is an Indian Non-governmental organisation registered as a Society/Charity under the Tamilnadu Societies Registration Act 27 of 1975, Government of Tamilnadu {India} and Foreign Contribution (Regulations) Act 1976, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India in order to be eligible to receive donations from International funding organisations, Corporares,individual donors and philanthropists. Our Society's Registration number is: 112/1981 and our FCRA number is 075940124. It is duly registered under section 12-A {b} of the Income Tax Act 1961. We regularly submit our annual returns, reports and audited statements of accounts to the Government of Tamilnadu and Government of India as per the above legal enactments.

Goodwill social work centre has been working in the areas of children's rights, children’s rights through artwork, Children’s environmental health rights, Intensive family preservation for dysfunctional families, non-formal employment training for youth, humanitarian aid, community technology services, environment education and action, social research, NGO capacity building, Global Links Initiative(UK)’s networking in Tamilnadu(India) and NGO consultancy. Causes supported by the Centre are wide ranging from social philanthropy to social development in the spirit of the organisation's aims of professionalism based on the principles of scientific humanism in line with the professional social work model in the management of issues concerning children, youth, women, dysfunctional families, NGOs and civil society groups.

Goodwill Social Wok Centre is highly professional in its approach and its methods are underpinned by a strong academic research ethos. Highly impressed by the professionalism in GOODWILL’s governance and management of programmes, the Global Links Initiative(www.glinet.org) ,a registered company and a charity in the United Kingdom entered into a partnership agreement with GOODWILL on 6th October 2007 to work together to provide services and capacity building programmes for GLI Networkers in Tamilnadu, ndia

One of our achievements is that our organisation has been declared as one of the four winners of “Panda IT Aid”, Panda Software International, Spain (http://www.pandasoftware.com). The other organisations are Save the Children (with a pan-European project),Spain, Fundación Braille (Uruguay) and Paideia (Paraguay). These four winning projects were selected from 15 finalists through a vote held among all the employees of the Panda Group across 56 countries. In a previous phase, the selection committee had selected the fifteen finalist initiatives from the more than 130 projects presented in this first edition of Panda IT Aid. Goodwill Social Work entre has received a cash award and Panda Software solutions for the Community Technology centres created in Madurai,India. You are invited to watch our slide show at:
http://www.slideshare.net/drchristopherdaniel1/panda-software-international-spain-presents-international-solidarity-initiative-panda-it-aid-2006-to-goodwill-social-work-centre-madurai-india