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The Goodwill Social Work Centre, a professional social work organisation deeply committed to the development of children, youth and women was founded by a professionally trained Social Worker in November 1981 in the temple city of Madurai, India with the prime objective of performing a wide spectrum of roles in the development of children, youth and women and undertaking a comprehensive action through professional approach with a preventive, curative and rehabilitative perspective. It aims at utilising positively the scientific methods of Social Work for problem identification, problem solving and problem prevention for the multifaceted development of children, youth and women who are at a disadvantage. It is a Non-governmental organisation registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act 27 of 1975 and Foreign Contributions (Regulations) Act 1976. The centre is a regular member of the World Association of Non-Governmental organization(WANGO),USA, CRIN(U.K) and ENCSW,Belgium. Our Society's Registration number is:112/1981 and our FCRA number is:075940124
About the Founder
     Prof. Dr.J.Christopher Daniel is the Honorary Executive Director of Goodwill social work centre, Madurai, India. He is a Practicing Social worker and involved in child rights promotion work and family social work.
        He is a Professor of Social Work and human resources management at the Madurai Institute of social sciences,(Affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University), Madurai, India. He received his master’s degree in Social work with Human Resources Management as a field of specialisation from the Loyola College (University of Madras), Chennai in 1971 and Ph. D in social work from the Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai in 1988.He holds a Certificate in International interdisciplinary Course on Children’s rights awarded by the University of Ghent, Belgium in 1996.

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