THE WHAT, WHY & HOW OF SW

1. Social work as a goal oriented, planned, systematic, change process.
2. Creative Responses to needs – cases:
CASE 1: Childline – Jeroo Billimoria
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Vision
A child-friendly nation that ensures the rights of all children.
Mission
CHILDLINE will reach out to every child in need and ensure their rights and protection through the 4 Cs.
· Catalyze systems through active advocacy.
· Collaborate through integrated efforts between children, the state, civil society, corporates and community.
· Connect through technology to reach the "last mile"
· Communicate to make child protection everybody's priority.

CASE 2: MAITRI
CASE 3: SAKHI – www.culturalacademy.org
CASE 4: CSR of GMR Varalakshmi foundation http://www.gmrgroup.co.in/branchindex.aspx?branchid=23
To make a difference, in the areas of Education, Community Service, Health, Hygiene and Livelihoods, through empowerment and capacity building of the poorest of the poor and their institutions, especially in rural India with humility, compassion and empathy.
CASE 5: CRY
Rippan Kapur, the airline purser who founded CRY, was an ordinary person driven by an extraordinary dream - the dream that no Indian child would be deprived of rights as basic as survival, participation, protection and development.Like all of us, Rippan got upset to see the disparities that exist between privileged and underprivileged children. He hated to see children begging and working as servants. Unlike most of us, though, he did something about it. In his case, the action started young.He joined his school's social service club and read to the blind, visited children in hospitals, held reading and writing classes for street children, and started a free dispensary at a slum the Club adopted. To raise funds for these activities, the Club sold milk. It even won a shield for the best Interact club!These qualities of resourcefulness and determination were to come in handy when Rippan and 6 of his friends started CRY with Rs. 50/- around Rippan's mother's dining table. That was 29 years ago, in 1979. They felt that something needed to be done to improve the situation of the underprivileged Indian child.

What makes people like Rippan, Beena, Jeroo, Fr. Jose Alex/P.O. George to do things that others did not think of?
To do things in a manner different from what many others would?
What makes them do whatever they did and how they did?
WHY? WHAT? HOW?
The answer is both the history and philosophy of Social Work?
What makes people do what they do, the way they do – this is the (their) philosophy of social work.
When we examine carefully we find a frame of mind – a pattern of thinking – a set of values; often having their roots in some sort of religious/spiritual/secular ‘ideologies’.
Ideologies
A set of values and beliefs held by individuals, groups and societies that influences their conduct. Ideologies are systems of abstract thought (as opposed to mere ideation) applied to public matters and thus make this concept central to politics. Implicitly every political tendency entails an ideology whether or not it is propounded as an explicit system of thought