KOLPING INDIA Programme

In 1962, Mr.Karl Konermann from Rheine/Westfalia founded the first Kolping Family in India, in Worli, a district of the dockland area in Bombay Kolping House was constructed on the church property of the parish Worli where membership meetings, educational and training courses were conducted. In 1977, George Rodriguez, the president of the Kolping Family Worli visited Germany. This led the Kolping Family to join a fishing cooperative that enabled the members – with the support of the International Kolping Society – to buy boats and modern fishing nets which provided for sales at a fair price.
Vision:
To build Up a Society in the Diocesan area based on Love, Truth, Justice, Brotherhood and Cooperation, Rooted in Communion with God.
Mission:
Creating a new order in the Society based on Love, Peace, Truth, Justice, Solidarity and Fraternity wherein the values of the Gospels are translated into action with a stress on basic Christian atmosphere spiritually and with a focus on self sufficiency, economically, both enabling the members to live a life in accordance with the divine plan of salvation.

Objectives of Kolping India:

• To help people live in the operational area of QSSS especially the poor to free from hunger, injustice and lead a dignified human life befitting the creation.
• To promote groups of the target people on the basis of the principles of Bl. Kolping and motivate them for savings.
• To implement, various developmental and welfare programs for the group members.
• To enable the group members to attain self-sufficiency in all spheres such as spiritual, economic, cultural and social and to live a community life based on harmony, fraternity and freedom