Aims & Objectives

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=150 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>T.I.S.I. (NZ) Sangam</B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><B>     |     </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="T.I.S.I. 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the founder of the Sangam in Fiji.  He is popularly known as the father and the Patron Saint of Sangam</div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=330 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Aims & Objectives</I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To promote South Indian Culture, Languages and Traditions</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To carry out, promote and sponsor religious, cultural and sporting activities</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To carry on educational work, and to impart and promote the study of Science, Art, Industry and Technology</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To construct, purchase, lease, rent, maintain and/or alter any property or building for the purpose of the Sangam</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To build, manage and maintain temples, rest-homes and monasteries</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To obtain and retain<I> </I>affiliation and work in co-operation with the "Then India Sanmarga Ikya Sangam of Fiji".</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To promote, encourage and support members in business</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To establish, maintain, assist and manage Schools, Colleges, Libraries, Orphanages, Workshops, Laboratories, Dispensaries, Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Houses for Infants, the Invalid and the Afflicted, Boarding Houses, Hostels and other similar educational and charitable works and institutions</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To impart and promote the study of Hinduism and its scriptures, and to promote the study of comparative Theology, and to assist and bring about the harmony of all religious.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To print, publish, sell and/or distribute newsletters, books, pamphlets, journals and periodicals</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To sponsor underprivileged children for educational purposes</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To establish and maintain institutions or shelters, and to carry-out charitable work that provides for the welfare and well-being of the underprivileged or elderly</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To form and manage any trust, agency or business which may seem conducive to any of the objectives of the Sangam</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To undertake and enter into any business ventures and to use the income to promote the objectives of the Sangam.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To incorporate other organisations that have objectives similar to those of the Sangam, and co-operate with other persons in order to achieve those objectives</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To liase, communicate, and exchange information and ideas with other groups, community organisations that have similar interests, aims and objectives </div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To undertake fundraising activities, and to raise and borrow money in order to achieve the above objectives</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.gif" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">To carry out any other activities or functions that help achieve the above objectives</div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>