The Founders
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Father Vincent Ferrer |
Father Vincent Ferrer & Mrs Anne Ferrer are the founders of Accion Fraterna
(AF), which has started its operations in 1982. He is also founder of Rural
Development Trust (RDT), established in 1969. AF is an autonomous sister
organization of Rural Development Trust.
RDT is striving for multisectoral development of the dalits, tribals, and other backward and marginalized communities. It is striving for drought-proofing and to enhance agricultural production in the drought prone district of Anantapur.
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Father Vincent Ferrer & Mrs. Anne
Ferrer Father Vincent Ferrer and Mrs. Anne Ferrer are
well-known social workers in India. Father Ferrer was born in Spain in
1920 and came to India in 1952. Mrs. Ferrer born in UK came to India in
1964. They have been relentlessly working on issues of poverty and
underdevelopment in India. They founded Rural Development Trust (RDT) in
1969, after moving to Anantapur from Maharashtra, where Father had began
his work in the mid-60s. They strongly believed that voluntary organizations
should serve the poor without being subservient to any one ideology or
the other. Father Ferrer and Mrs. Ferrer have integrated various
conventional ideologies and approaches in their development philosophy
and practices. Father Ferrer was recipient of many International Awards, including the Prestigious Principe de Astuias de concorde (Prince of Spain Award for Peace and Development) and two honorary doctorates. Father Ferrer died on 19-06-2009 at the age of 89. Their son Mr. Moncho Ferrer, has also been involved in their work for the past 15 years. |
Some of his quotes:
“Concern for others”
“Why do I need to search for the truth when any single good action contains in it all the philosophies, all the ideologies and all the religions”
“Poverty and suffering are not there to be understand but to be resolved”
“If you are not a brother another, you are not yet a man. A man is the one who acts for another”
