Mythri Sarva Seva Samithi (MSSS) means “friendliness and service to all’ is a registered, non-profit, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) started in 1987. MSSS began work in Bangalore, with children living on street especially waste picking children to help them integrating within the mainstream of the society. Since then MSSS has grown to embrace multiple aspects of urban/rural poverty and environment.
Its focus and expertise includes addressing issues related to waste picking families, child right activism, women empowerment, promoting micro-enterprise through self help groups & federations, community development, advocacy in good governance, solid waste management (SWM), rurban horticulture, ecological sanitation, creation of water and sanitation facilities in rural and urban communities of Karnataka.
Over the years, our vision has changed. We have become not only a development oriented agency, but an advocate, protagonist and a change maker. In the beginning of our work focused on children on the street, it was a compassionate approach, helping those who were on the street without families and evolving a support system for them to fall back. During those years, we identified and partnered with deprived communities and host of organizations that has concern for them and learned from them relevant approaches. Later we narrowed our engagement with creation of contextualized solutions for those with whom we worked in the areas of water, sanitation, clean environment, housing, jobs, and improvement in livelihood. We have come a long way. At this point in time, we concentrate on training, capacity building, advocacy and enduring solutions for poverty eradication, water, sanitation and solid waste management
Our vision was reshaped by engaging ourselves in ground realities and stands as “Engaging with and empowering deprived communities within our reach”
To create lasting impact on communities with whom we work, to engage, enable and empower them to bring about enduring change in their lives and in the context where they are placed.
Our mission today is articulated as -
“Connecting through food and enhancing life in all forms”
Sounds strange – that is what life is. Every one of us is nourished by food we eat. The space it occupies in survival is so little. Our body and all its vitalities survive through food. We believe in Guarantee of safe and nourishing food as the game changer. We strive for fair share of safe food for every life form in this planet. Safe food changes the face of poverty
Our Logo symbolizes Freedom to Grow and Protection from Vagaries of life
To partner and collaborate with Governments, Nongovernmental organizations, Private companies and Global networks to link and learn continuously for growth and outreach. Using this as a platform, our is mission is to, to engage, empower, to inspire, to deliver quality work and become a change maker in propagating enduring solutions in areas of water, sanitation, environmental protection, poverty alleviation and dissemination of information.
Our Logo symbolizes Freedom to Grow and Protection from Vagaries of life.