C.A.P.R.N. Ltd.

The foundation of C.A.P.R.N. Ltd., lies in the issue based action development and education groups that are form the Network of the Limited Company. The originating group was, and is, the Cork Combat Poverty Resource Project. This was the group that evolved in 1980, out of the pilot project under the auspices of the E.U. National Programme of the Pilot Schemes to Combat Poverty (1976- 1980).The Cork Combat Poverty Resource Project evolved the philosophy and methodology of the work in the community, that was to be taken up gradually and on an emerging needs basis, by other groups as they developed. These groups include, Write Together Adult Literacy Scheme, Cork Women’s Action Group, Mna Feasa Domestic Violence Project, Men’s Education Programme, Young Women’s Group and Cork City North Mature Women’s Action Group. They were facilitated and resourced by the Core Project to respond to specific areas of need.

Philosophy

The philosophy of the work of C.A.P.R.N. Ltd is: 

•  A commitment to basic social economic and political change in Ireland (and the world) as a way of combating poverty, social exclusion and marginalisation.
• A belief in a co- operative egalitarian way of working and the active Participation of those involved in the work, at the level at which they are involved.
• A commitment to sharing resources between different project groupings and of the stronger groups supporting the work of the emerging new groups or those groups who are margin.alised because of the strands they take their work for social justice.
• A commitment to resourcing community people so that they will become spokespeople with a direct non-mediated voice.
• The C.A.P.R.N. Ltd. project has a strong commitment to equality in terms of gender, class race and religion.
• The work to be self directed and defined with the active solidarity of Committed resource people who will ensure that the work of all groups and projects are self directed.