OUR INTEGRATED FOCUS

Janrukula is a community based Non - Governmental Organization established by Upali sumithre, who had worked under the hundred one Million housing program of the National Housing Development Authority as a community Organizer to Organize urban poor to carry on self help housing schemes in urban area and two other members engaged in spreading poverty alleviation program for poor women in Sri lanka.

It's strategy is to organize poor women of equal economic and social status in to small 5-15 women's mutual help groups. The mission of these self help and mutual help group is to put the resources, ideas, and support of their own members to raise their economic and cultural status on principal of the self help and mutual help without depending on government and external support.

These 5-15 members should meet at one of the member's houses at least once a week to discuss their socio economic and cultural problems and to save Rs. five for a week. At these meetings they should elect a group leader, vice leader and secretary at the first meeting. Group leader should be the Treasurer. All saving collected should be kept in custody the group leader. Janarukula will provide cash boxes to these small groups.

Five Groups operating in close proximity should be federated in to primary society. This primary society all members of the small groups should enroll as shareholders of these primary society by buying at least one share of the share capital of the primary society by paying rupees one hundred. These primary societies will function as branch of WOMEN'S DEVELOPMENT FEDERATION and they will come under scrutiny of the Janarukula.