Goals & Vision:
JMF envisions a policy of development for the region and its people which pursues a “holistic” approach in which the people and their surrounding environment are able to prosper in a sustainable manner.

Furthermore, JMF’s vision is of a widespread acceptance of non-violence in the people’s campaign for change as part of an effort to contribute to peace building in the region, complementary to the steps for peace taken by the Government of Bangladesh.

JMF also envisions a community of people who are independent of foreign and national aid and lead self-sustaining lives with employment and education opportunities and health and food security.

Mission:
JMF’s mission can be reduced to three inter-related principles: (a) unify and empower the Indigenous people towards self reliance (b) alleviate the causes of poverty by providing education, job training and job opportunities (c) rehabilitate the impoverished through the provision of affordable and accessible healthcare and housing.

Objectives:
The objectives of JMF are to uplift the social, economic and political conditions of the impoverished indigenous minority people, especially women and children, through community organization, education, training, economic activities on crucial social issues, environmental and sanitation activities, healthcare and to mobilize local resources to establish the people’s rights in society. More specific objectives are as follows:

1.    Raise social awareness by helping the indigenous people learn about options for pursuing what’s in their best interest

2.    Increase the level of interest in improving self-sufficiency and involvement in the development process

3.    Mobilize and organize the disadvantaged and marginalized, targeting women and children

4.    Increase efficiency and behavioral change by providing human and skills development training

5.    Help ensure widespread participation in all development activities and processes by increasing literacy

6.    Alleviate poverty by creating a generation of self-employed people through credit support programs

7.    Teach non-formal education to children who are unsuccessful in or drop-out of school

8.    Develop connections with the government and National and International Development Agencies for wider support and co-operation

9.    Undertake ICT related projects to ensure the growth of ICT use by the indigenous minority communities

10 .Ensure environmental protection and ecological balance by undertaking related projects in sustainable agriculture and    environmental programs

11 Improve health and sanitation conditions by providing software and hardware support to the disadvantaged

12 Preserve and increase the knowledge of human rights, especially of women and children, through programs and workshops

13 Undertake programs increase involvement of the indigenous communities’ in the local and national decision making processes towards the realization of participatory democracy.

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