Community Renovation and Organisation Advancement Trust – COROAT

COROAT is a non-profit organization, registered under Indian Trust Act 1882, on 6.4.2009, by Mrs. M. Padmavathi and her likeminded friends. COROAT’s registration number is 351/2009 and it has received income tax exemption under Income Tax Act sec 12AA and 80G. Approval of COROAT under Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act 2010 was made in October 2013 followed by renewal in 2018 and 2023. Mrs. Padmavathi is a daughter of traditional artisan and she witnessed the issues of utter poverty, unemployment, indebtedness to private money lenders, child marriage, child labour, and low social status of women in her own family / community since her childhood. She was brave enough to concentrate on her own development, continued to study through scholarships and became the first graduate woman from her community. She got opportunities to work in development organizations and government projects since 1998. Her experience on the socio, economic, educational and cultural issues of the vulnerable community and empowerment interventions in development sector has motivated her to promote an organization to fight for the social issues faced by her. She wants to promote the lives of most deprived and marginalized communities in the society. Vision of the organization: “Building a gender just, non-discriminatory, democratic, and humane society for women and children, and disadvantaged people of the society and ensure equal access to resources and sustainable livelihood for them”. Mission of the Organisation: • Mobilising the community together and form them into a forum / groups / federations to understand the power of unity. • Capacity building of deprived and marginalized community and enabling them to understand the realities around them and means of breaking their vulnerabilities. • Link the community forums with external institutions, existing government schemes to enable them to access resources available to them. Uniqueness of COROAT: COROAT want to improve the lives of marginalised communities in the society through rights based approach. COROAT has started working for the unorganised workers / coolie labourers during inception and slowly extended the support to the children of unorganised workers. Gradually COROAT has initiated intervention among transperson. We develop strategies towards capacity building, convergence with government schemes, mobilising marginalised community into a forum in all our target intervention. We keep ensuring our intervention model, vision, and mission in every stages.