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Social Responsible Personalities State of Andhra Pradesh, INDIA. |
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| Chaitanya Educational and Rural Development Society (CERDS) was established in 1996 by a group of rural natives interested in the field of humanitarian and rural development services. It was registered as Society under Indian Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860. CERDS was created to work exclusively in the dry-land and coastal regions of Prakasam and Guntur Districts of Andhra Pradesh, to help poor communities to overcome the affects of poverty and create new futures for themselves and their communities. It has been an uphill battle for CERDS, confronting and surmounting the social, economic and political realities within which the NGO sector is operating. However, given these limitations, CERDS has been attempting to explore various possibilities, in becoming more relevant to the needs of the disadvantaged poor in Prakasam and Guntur Districts. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| AWARDS RECEIVED BY MR. SRINIVAS RAO NARRA GARU | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| WE APPROACH | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CERDS trusts that the development of India mainly depended on the rural areas progressiveness and any effort to promote Educational and Rural Development strengthens the Rural areas in turn Nation. CERDS approach assists whole communities develop the capacity to overcome the affects of poverty and create a new future. CERDS believe that promotion of sustainable and self-reliant communities is possible, when the poor themselves are the initiators in resolving the problems of poverty. CERDS use a development process that intimately involves the poor themselves in their own development. We call it the Participatory Community Development Process (PCDP). PCDP is a participatory, non-violent process of problem solving, consciousness-raising and empowering the poor. CERDS approach mobilizes people to act and solve their problems. It has proven to be an effective method of resolving problems or issues such as poor community health, clean water supplies, food security, inadequate sanitation, absence of schools for children, barriers of farming communities, lack of ideas on optional livelihoods and the lack of basic public services.This approach of working with people from poor communities equips them with the necessary skills, knowledge and appropriate values and attitudes to act and manage their own development. It catalyzes the emergence of alternative structures and systems (i.e. cooperatives, people’s organizations) which become instruments of the people to effectively and collectively assert protect and contend for their own interests. |
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| CERDS's OBJECTIVES | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CERDS is established for the following objectives: 1. To educate people and make them conscious and concerned about self-reliance, social justice and co-operation, so that they may be prepared and equipped to work out for themselves and for others and keeping in further with their own human dignity and destiny. 2. To help, devise schemes and projects and help to execute them which will assist the country towards elimination of poverty and misery. 3. To promote all types of activities that are aimed at the integral development of persons and communities. 4. To channelize the energies of our people towards constructive national work in the social, educational and cultural fields in co-operation with Government wherever feasible. 5. To defuse useful knowledge such as social, spiritual and economical life of the country and the children become good citizens of the country. 6. To study and conduct Research on Social, Civic, Arts, Literature, Science, Cultural, economic aspects of the Rural Communities and promote them |
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| OUR STORY | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"CERDS” was promoted by a team of rural natives interested in the field of social and rural development services. The organisation was started with a greater aim of “promoting sustainable self-reliance village communities through changing the attitudes among the public”. To attain this task, right from the inception, organisation is working in a different way following a unique approach i.e., promoting and working with community organisations according to the identified felt-needs of the communities. At present CERDS is working in 95 needy and deserving communities in Prakasam and Guntur Districts of Andhra Pradesh. |
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| OUR WEBSITE : www.cerds-india.org | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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H.No: 3-68/1, 5th Lane, Pandaripuram, Chilakaluripet, Andhra Pradesh, India-522616 |
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