Nagas helping one another at home and around the world
Vision: Overseas Naga Association believes in Nagas helping one another at home and around the world. As an international Naga community away from the homeland, we seek to provide opportunities for collaboration and understanding across national borders and to strengthen ties with our people back home. Our aim is to complement and strengthen the existing Naga associations in various countries by offering members a common global link and forum. We are a non-profit organization and we invite all persons of Naga descent and their families living outside the Indian subcontinent to join us.
Goals:
1. To promote community links and understanding among the Naga global diaspora, and to work for the common good and unity of all Nagas back home irrespective of political and ideological differences.
2. To provide the younger generations of Naga descent living abroad with opportunities to interact with each other and with their counterparts in the homeland through well-organized programs, such as “Journey to my Heritage” during festivals, visits to Naga villages, workshops on cultures, cultural immersion experience, running Naga stores and stalls overseas.
3. To set up and run twin Think-Tanks (one composed of overseas Nagas and one in the homeland) whose function will be to brainstorm ideas and help implement programs aimed at improving the Naga society in all areas of knowledge, as well as material progress, so that Nagas can become a competitive people in the fast changing world of the 21st century.
4. To collaborate with educational institutions in the homeland and around the world on projects and programs for improving student learning and experience in professional work that will make students competitive with their peers in the rest of the world.
5. To make available a team of experts with experience in various fields that any Chief Minister of Nagaland and his/her administration can seek advice from.
6. To organize conferences/summits both in the homeland and in different countries, so we can celebrate our common Naga heritage and share ideas on specific timely issues as well as broad themes that need addressing.
Visier Sanyü, President, ONA
Paul Pimomo, Secretary General, ONA
Vision: Overseas Naga Association believes in Nagas helping one another at home and around the world. As an international Naga community away from the homeland, we seek to provide opportunities for collaboration and understanding across national borders and to strengthen ties with our people back home. Our aim is to complement and strengthen the existing Naga associations in various countries by offering members a common global link and forum. We are a non-profit organization and we invite all persons of Naga descent and their families living outside the Indian subcontinent to join us.
Goals:
1. To promote community links and understanding among the Naga global diaspora, and to work for the common good and unity of all Nagas back home irrespective of political and ideological differences.
2. To provide the younger generations of Naga descent living abroad with opportunities to interact with each other and with their counterparts in the homeland through well-organized programs, such as “Journey to my Heritage” during festivals, visits to Naga villages, workshops on cultures, cultural immersion experience, running Naga stores and stalls overseas.
3. To set up and run twin Think-Tanks (one composed of overseas Nagas and one in the homeland) whose function will be to brainstorm ideas and help implement programs aimed at improving the Naga society in all areas of knowledge, as well as material progress, so that Nagas can become a competitive people in the fast changing world of the 21st century.
4. To collaborate with educational institutions in the homeland and around the world on projects and programs for improving student learning and experience in professional work that will make students competitive with their peers in the rest of the world.
5. To make available a team of experts with experience in various fields that any Chief Minister of Nagaland and his/her administration can seek advice from.
6. To organize conferences/summits both in the homeland and in different countries, so we can celebrate our common Naga heritage and share ideas on specific timely issues as well as broad themes that need addressing.
Visier Sanyü, President, ONA
Paul Pimomo, Secretary General, ONA