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Tribute to Jimmy
It was in
June 1992that the idea of OUTREACH, as an NGO took shape
with Jimmy and his two colleagues as the founders.
Jimmy's vision was that OUTREACH as an NGO, would be different in approach and should play a
private role in capacity building of small NGO'S.
To support himself and his two colleagues, he worked as a consultant taking up
training assignments, appraisals and impact assessments
of donor funded projects on request. After a few
months he realised that this arrangements was not enough for the cause of rural poor. He
strongly felt besides training and capacity building process of NGO's donors and
governments departments and researchers that community participation in the development process was very
essential and introduced the participatory methods and
techniques in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating, where
the community was involved in all the stages. This approach
played a very important role in the success of the project, and was appreciated by the people
involved.
Success and appreciation's did not stop him from training out innovative ideas and making
possible, the impossible. Sometimes his decisions would
seem foolish, but the end result would create, such an impact that it
would create, such an impact that it would leave
people speech less and astonished. that was how powerful his vision was.
The mere presence of Jimmy would facilities a wide range of ideas and
discussions. The personality and commitment of jimmy earned him
recognition, far and widen the international level
and through him to the organization. This saw an inflow of experienced people who were willing to work in OUTREACH,
and be a part of the new Development Approach initiated by
Jimmy. This was one of the reasons that the OUTREACH gained recognition as an
organization, which had experienced and committed rural development workers.
Apart from all the commitment, leadership qualities and his awesome
personality, he was a very simple human being as he was easily approachable and the people working with him could
discuss new ideas including their personal problems which he would listen to with utmost interest and give them quality advice and suggestions, as
to how to tackle their problems. His advice and
suggestions, as to how to tackle their problems. His advice and suggestion would instill confidence into any kind of
individual regardless of their problems. His advice and suggestions would instill confidence into any kind of individual
regardless of their problems and drawbacks.
Though he is not physically present with us today, his
spirit, his ideologies and his vision are with us, which gives us immense strength to carry on the flame of commitment started by him
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