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AIMS OF THE SALESIAN SOCIAL FORUM (SSF)
� To provide space and opportunity for reflection, analysis, concept clarification, theorizing, and growth.
� To ensure the relevance of our work in the context of marginalisation in which we live and work.
� To challenge the members of SSF regarding their meaningful participation in larger secular processes with regard to human rights and social justice.
� To build up solidarity and mutual support among members, and to recoup, to re-energize and to update themselves.
� To offer mentoring space for young Salesian on social action issues

AREAS OF INVOLVEMENT OF SSF
� Contributing towards making the formation process justice oriented and becoming catalyst of social consciousness and social audit.
� Developing an approach to our apostolate based on human rights.
� Being a channel for our works for networking and partnership with secular groups
� Contributing with our grass root experience towards influencing policy at higher levels in the congregation, church, state and civil society.
� Intervening wherever Human Rights Violation takes place.
� Informing Salesians, especially provincials, and the people we work with about the gravity of calamities, Human Rights violations and social unrest.
� Mobilising resource support as well as volunteers for specific Justice and Human Rights related tasks.

CORE PURPOSE / IDENTITY OF SSF
� Human rights based approach
� Human rights as the basis of our spirituality ( preventive system)
� Commitment to peoples` movements
� Working for social justice (gender, caste, class, ethnicity, age, and so on)
� Secular and inclusive discourse and approach

MEMBERSHIP FOR SSF
Salesians, Salesian Family Members, Lay Collaborators, and Associates from larger secular processes who subscribe to the above principles. 


The Follow up Team:
T.D. John, Forum Contact Person (FCP)

Local Contact Persons (LCPs):
 Ricopar Ryan (Tamil Nadu),
Jerry Thomas (North East),
Baxla Zephyrinus (Guwahati),
Scaria Nedumattom (West Bengal, Jharkand and Orissa),
Devassy K. (Karnataka, Kerala) and
Jose Maliekal (Formation).

This team would make efforts to contact like-minded confreres and form local teams in all the provinces so that the forum will be truly representative of South Asia. 
 

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