Gres India Profile

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PROFILE OF GAYATRI RURAL EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY (GRES) 1. Name of the organization:

Gayatri Rural Educational Society (GRES)

2. Registered Office

Borubhadra Village, Santabommali Mandal Srikakulam District Andhra Pradesh India PIN : 532001

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Administrative Office

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Bharati Sri Ramulu Nivas, D.No: 02, Opp: Sri Chaitanya Boys College, Bankers Colony, Srikakulam Town Srikakulam District PIN : 532001 Andhra Pradesh India

Mobile:

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+91-9866291276

Off.Phone

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08942-211069

E-mail

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[email protected]

Website

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http//www.gresindia.blogspot.com www.jharkhand.org.in/gres http//ngogateway.org.gres

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Sadasivuni Krishna Kumari, Secretary

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Non-Government Organisation. Registered under the Societies Registration Act.

Name of Chief Functionary 4.

Legal Status

5. Particulars of Registration :

Societies Registration Act. Regd . No. 366/2000. Date : 03-08-2000.

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6. GRES Mission

We strive to bring about equality of opportunity in our society with preservation of regional & cultural traditions, by improving the lives of women, children and youth for sustainableility and by in advancing the right of disable & deprived people; Explicitly we work towards prosperity of rural, tribal & urban slum dwellers through integrated approach, which embodies awareness, education, economic, health, sanitation, capacity building & bio-diversity programmes, with an insistence on women /youth empowerment.

7. GRES Vision

Just and equitable society with greater emphasis on spirituality, compassion and peace on earth”.

8. Aims & Objectives: a. To work for integrated socio-economic development of the Tribal, scheduled caste, rural poor, slum-dwellers, and people in need. b. To establish Old Age Homes & Day Care Centres for taking care of neglected & helpless elderly people c. To establish Destitute Homes for taking care of destitute and Working Women’s Hostel for women in need. d. To work towards substance abuse prevention. e. To establish Sevashrams/ Crèches/ Residential Tribal Welfare Schools for taking care of orphan children and child education. f. To arrange for regular health camps/ eye camps for health / eye care of the people in need. g. To work for abolition of child labour from the society and protection of child rights. h. To work for creation of self-employment opportunities by arranging various vocational training programmes in coordination with state, international & national authorities/organisations. i. To settle family problems like matrimonial relations, dowry etc through family counseling j. To spread the idea of small family norms and help in family planning through women education. k. To conduct literacy programmes, adult education programmes for complete eradication of illiteracy from the society. l. To work for preservation of nature, water resources, and environment protection. m. To educate people for rural development. n. To work for eradication of untouchability and development of living standards of SC/ST/OBC people of the society. o. To organize and develop cultural activities. p. To build-up character and to work for development of morality, friendship, sense of responsibility, qualities of leadership, discipline, standard of citizenship, political consciousness, self respect, patriotism and respect for the nation among the people. q. To coordinate all organizations with noble aims and objectives. r. To work for eradication of AIDS and make people conscious. s. To work for rehabilitation of beggars and eradication of begging from the society. t. To work for rehabilitation of disabled and deprived people. u. To develop the habit of thrift & savings, promote self-help groups both among the men/women; provide micro-credit support marketing support as well as training

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3 support. v. To create awareness in the society as to consumer rights, legal rights, human rights and fundamental rights. w. Establishment of training cum production centres for training and creation of employment opportunities. x. Work towards Research and Development for social development. y. Establishment of research centres for networking and capacity building. z. To work for conservation of bio-diversity and maintain the ecological balance. aa. To work for early detection of leprosy, care and treatment of leprosy affected people, their economic Rehabilitation and social acceptance through awareness among the general mass. bb. To offer socially viable platform to Indian youths to socialize and promote an atmosphere of dignity and harmonious co-habitation among them through mutual respect, love and trust for each other cc. To initiate active involvement of youths in national reconstruction dd. To channelize the energies of youths in community services ee. To help the fellow members in their hours of need through group action among members of Forum ff. To felicitate the members for their extraordinary efforts in their respective fields gg. To promote various activities/programs at regular intervals for members like Cultural Nights, Community services, Sports, Social Gatherings, Debates, Workshops, Field Visits hh. To initiate group action against Social Issues predominant in our Indian Society ii. To promote young talents in the concerned area of their Interests jj. To work towards the overall betterment and upliftment of Indian Youth kk. To seek active participation of Indian Youths in democratic affairs of Country Back Ground Gayatri Rurl Educational Society ( GRES ), was set up as a non-political, non-profit making voluntary development organization on 3rd August 2000 and was registered under the Indian Societies Registration Act 1860 vide Regd. No. 366/2000 Dt.3-8-2000. It was founded by eminent social worker Sri Manipatruni Narasimha Murthy who was passed away during the year 2003 The motto of GRES is to mobilize public opinion and generate resources for supporting development Action. It recognizes the right of every Indian to lead a life with dignity and self-respect in a just and equitable society. It feels the need to improve the capacities of individuals, communities and women, to improve the quality of lives and enhance their ability to negotiate from a position of strength; a strength that would come from being educated, in good health and having the capacity to be engaged in productive work. It takes initiative for the Integrated Development that would arrive out of the felt needs of the people. 27 Small Non Governmental Organisations are working under our organisation.

GRES implements Eight major programs, namely: 1.SustainableFarmingProgram(SFP)

SFP develops farmer-initiated, location specific and sustainable farming technologies in partnership with community organizations to promote appropriate alternatives to

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4 mainstream agricultural processes that have been responsible for losses in farm productivity and income, biodiversity, indigenous knowledge systems, and community control over genetic resources.

2. Sustainable Community-Based Resource Management Program (SCBRMP) SCBRMP enhances people's environmental awareness and builds their capacities in natural resource utilization, protection, and management. Directed towards the formation of community resource management structures, the program aims to promote participatory and community-directed approaches in the protection and rehabilitation of natural resources including coastal and marine, forest and water resources. It also mobilizes community actions to address resource destruction and depletion, biodiversity erosion and unsustainable utilization of land and aquatic resources.

3.Rural Livelihood Development Program (RLDP) RLDP contributes to the development of sustainable livelihood systems and the promotion of greater equity in rural areas by increasing incomes of rural households, both from farm and off-farm sources. The program's key strategies revolve around facilitating the poor's access to credit and market and developing economically viable and sustainable enterprises where the beneficiaries effectively exercise management and control over these activities and receive equitable benefits from the same.

4. Policy Research, Advocacy and Campaigns (PRAC) GRES's research, advocacy and campaigns program generates and promotes information, actions and proposals on key development issues and concerns agriculture and small-scale farmers and HIV/AIDS, Women rights, eradication labour, adolescents and women from trafficking, rehabilitation programs to children, street children etc

relevant affecting of child disabled

5. Women and Children development Program (WCDP)

GRES run the Family Counseling centers for salvation of women family problems in the district with the financial support from Central Social Welfare Board, New Delhi and rehabilitation programmes to the street children, adolescent children, orphans, disabled children with the financial support from Sarvasikshaw Abhiyan run under Women and Children Development Department of New Delhi

6. Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation(TCSE) Prevention of Trafficking and Rescue, Rehabilitation and Re-integration of Victims of Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation

7. Stigma and Discrimination on HIV/AIDS Programs(SDP) Preventing the Stigma and discrimination on HIV/AIDs through mobilizing the population and stakeholders and contribute to achieving the Millennium Development (MDG) Goal 6 “Halt and reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015”. It has linkage to other MDGs, in particular those related to poverty reduction and infant mortality.

8. Women Empowerment Program(WEP) Women empowerment programmes through skill and vocational trainings for sustainable livelihood Forming women former groups SHG groups Micro Finance for sustainable

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5 livelihood..Sofar our organisation has formed 588 SHG groups with regular saving for Rs.41.52 lakhs and sofar 49.00 were provided to the beneficiaries for establishing self employment schemes for sustainable livelihood OUTREACH SUMMARY OF OUR ORGANISATION IS AS BELOW:

PARTICULARS Number of Units Number of Members Number of Groups Number of Active Clients Number of Active Loans Total Number of Loans Value of loans (Rs) Gross Loan Outstanding(Rs)

Apr '05–Mar- 06'

Apr '06-Mar- 07'

Apr '07-mar-08'

2 840 56 399 381 399 3,99,603 3,45,000

3 4,305 269 1,660 1,598 2,059 20,60,241 17,91,241

5 8,820 588 2,092 1,991 21,371 41,52,591 35,64,591

9.Household Sanitation Survey GRES was entrusted the survey of household sanitation in 11 mandal in the district by the district collector under the supervision of RWS department and accordingly GRES has made field visits ,interviewed with each beneficiaries and covered total beneficiaries of 32450 families and furnished report along with C.D to the Executive Engineer RWS Organization Members GRES is headed by a Executive Committee Body with women members composed of academics, farmer-leaders, NGO leaders and development advocates who share a common vision of development and a commitment to genuine people empowerment. Sri.P.Ramesh Babu, M.Com., I.C.W.A having sound knowledge in advocacy, skill development training programs, awareness programs, environment programs, human resource management programs , community development ,funds raising, projects designing is the Project Director of the organization . Smt.Sadasivuni Krishna Kumari, (B.A) who trained in the fields of Rural women development, agricultural sector and environment sector is the Secretary oversees the regular operations of GRES. The organization also maintains a regular pool of experts in the fields of agriculture, genetics, economics, HIV/AIDS awareness, women and children related programs and the environment to provide technical backup to its programs and services Some social recognitions awarded to Smt. Sadasivuni Krishna Kumari Secretary •

International Women’s Day Appreciation letter by the District Youth Welfare Officer , Youth Services Dept, Srikakulam. Programmes 2007

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Joint Director, Agricilture Dept, Srikakulam

Jail Ward Member in the District.

Appreciation letter for remarkable achievement in formation of Women Former Groups and Awareness Programmes on sustainable agriculture in Srikakulam District of Andhra Pradesh. As the Chief Functionary of GRES, the District Magistrate has nominated her as a Jail Ward member

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Domestic Violence

Appreciation letter by the District Youth Welfare Officer , Youth Services Dept, Srikakulam. for salvation of women domestic problems in successful manner through family counseling centre

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Best Rehabilitation Programmes for disabled, street ,orphans and adolescent children

Appreciation letter by the Mandal Education Officer Srikakulam for relief & rehabilitation carried out by her.

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Awareness Generation Programmes

Appreciation letter by the Mandal Revenue Officer Srikakulam for organizing awareness generation programmes to the women in the district in successful manner by her.

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Best Skill and Vocational Training Programmes

Appreciation letter by the Executive Director, S.C. Corporation Srikakulam for successfully imparted vocational training and Skill development trainings to the Scheduled Caste poor women in the district by her

10. Areas of Expertise

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Self-Help Group Promotion & Micro Finance. Capacity Building & Networking at grass root. Relief & Rehabilitation Income Generation Activities. Vocational Training. Environment protection& Disaster Mitigation. Women empowerment. Rehabilitation of disables & deprived people. Reproductive Child Health Care ,child labor eradication and protection of child right. Conduct of Mass awareness campaign. Cluster Development Programme. Care for the Old Aged People. Establishment of Community Based Drug(Medicine) center where there is no doctor. Training cum production centers. Marketing Outlets And Tie Up.

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Seminars/Workshops/Conferences on women empowerment, child care and environment programs Preventive methods on stigma and discrimination living with the people of HIV/AIDS Water resource management programmes

11. The members of the organization, its meeting, the reason of holding the meeting and the decisions generally taken. The member of the organization can be from all strata of the society. The members generally meet annually in the annual general body meeting unless otherwise needed. To run the organization, there is an executive committee consisting of Seven elected members from the general body of the organization. There are as much as four female members in the managing committee. The managing committee meets once in every 1-2 months interval. The committee discuss on all the matters . DISTRICT LEVEL NETWORKING :-GRES has been leading the District Women development Network ’ (DWDN), a forum of around 26 NGOs / VDOs having Regd. Office in the undivided Srikakulam District of Andhra Pradesh and active in pro-poor developmental work of this region. Mrs.Sadasivuni Krishna Kumari Secretary of GRES has been elected as the Secretary cum Convener of the DWDN for the consecutive second term this year.

PARTNERSHIP/MEMBERSHIP PARTICULARS GRES is having membership in the following National, Interanational Level Organisations and District level Organisation 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.

International HIV/AIDS Alliance Aids India Solution Exchange U.N Network NGO Gateway District Women Net Work Wassan Medi India Network Alliance Net Work Stop TB Net Work GVEP International Organization MECS Net Work Asia Micro Finance Network National Women Net Work UNAIDS

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HIGHLIGHTS OF SOME ACHIEVEMENTS. No of No of Description villages persons covered benefited 1. GRES has successfully organised the first ever Mega Health 382 46,400 Camp in Srikakulam district during the year 2006 and 2007 at Borubhadra village, Polaki, santabommali mandals of srikakulam district. This camp named as “Improve the Helath of poor women” rendered health service 2. Another innovative project being implemented by GRES is 12 195 Rehabilitation of Street Children /Beggars & Protection of their children upto 14 years of Age. The Organization had made a survey and identified 275 beggar families. So far, the organization has rehabilitated 195 families in gainful economic activities, provided them house in Srikakulam urban slums and provided them financial assistance for their economic growth through Income Generation Activity. The children of the families are now taught in a “Free Education Centre” being run by GRES. The resources required for this purpose is usually raised by the Organization through “Donations”, “Govt. Grant” and internal accrual. 3. GRES is working on elderly people’s developmental 14 98 activities. So far GRES has promoted nine SHGs among the older people, provided legal / medical / financial and other assistance to problems of older people of the society. 4. GRES has been actively involved in child labour eradication 122 796 as well as development of child labour through educating them in National Child Labour Project Schools to bring them to mainstream schools. At present GRES is running 2 such Child Labour Schools with a strength of 50 in each school. We do provide the mid day meal to the children on school as per the Govt. of India directives. In this process, so far 150 child labours have been educated by GRES and have entered into mainstream school. 5. GRES has successfully imparted vocational training to 179 3,514 unemployed youth and women in different vocations under its vocational training programme, who have been self employed 6. GRES has been conducting training programs on the micro 65 2,860 credit; self help group promotion, different aspects of SHG for the capacity building of the group members of the SHGs and other local NGOs. It has also imparted vocational training to 2860 numbers of Self Help Group members on different trades for their micro enterprises. 7. GRES has been implementing the literacy programme in 256 11,900 its project areas with employment of literacy teachers derived

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8,820

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1,569

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96,453

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6,790

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14,823

2,316

2,06,117

List of projects implemented in the last 3 years (April 2005 to March 2008) Project Donor Amount 1 2

SHG - Micro Credit Prg Rehabilitation of Child Labour ,Disabled Orphons Street Children,Orphons,Adolscents

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SHG GROUPS DCLP, Srikakulam

41,52,591 11,82,049

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Income Generation Training Programs Family Conselling Centre Short Stay Home Rural Livelihood Dev Prog Sustainable Community Dev. Prog Sustainable Farming Programs Awareness Generation Programs Seminars& Workshops onEnvironmen Condensed Course Program Advocacy & Campaigns

APITCO CSWB New Delhi Women Welfare Industries CSWBNew Delhi griculture & public CSWB New Delhi CSWB New Delhi CSWB New Delhi Public

TOTAL

6,75,293 2,96,893 1,08,473 1,36,805 1,71,510 1,39,492 1,58,522 78,226 1,71,850 30,492

73,28,457

Details of the Board of Directors / Executive Committee Sl No

Name

01 Manipatruni Srinivas Borubhadra(V), Santhabommali(M) Srikakulam Dist 02 Dr.Tirupathi Rao Pondur G.Sigadam Mandal Srikakulam Dist 03 Sadasivuni Krishna Kumari, Borubhadra(V), Santhabommali(M) Srikakulam Dist 04 Patnayakuni Laxmi Devi Borubhadra(V), Santhabommali(M) Srikakulam Dist 05 Paidi Maheswar Rao Srikakulam Town, Srikakulam Dist 06 Ponduri Venkat Laxmi Amudalavalasa (V), Amudalavalasa(M), Srikakulam Dist 07 Perigisetti Ramesh Babu Bankers Colony , Srikakulamm

Age

Sex

Edu. Qualification

35

Male

B.A

39

Male

35

Female

34

Female

34

Male

32

Female

38

Male

Designation in the committee

Occupation

Years of membership with organ.

President Journalist

8 years

MBBS

Vice President

Social Worker

1 years

(M.A)

Secretary

Social Worker

8 years

M.ATreasurer Sociology

Social Worker

4 years

MBBS

Member

Social Worker

2 years

SSC

Member

Rmg Mnfg

2 years

Service

1 year

M.Com ICWA

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Project Director

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Details of infrastructure facilities / assets of GRES Motor Vehicles • Four Wheeler • Two Wheelers Office Furniture & Fittings • Office Tables • Wheel Chairs • S Type Chairs Office Equipments • Air Condition • Refrigerator • Internet Connections • Cameras • Cell Phones Computer Equipments • Computers • Printer • Webcam Leasehold Improvements • Tables and Chairs for schools

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NUMBER OF STAFF EMPLOYED WITH THE ORGANISATION Full Time : 36 Part Time : 75 Total : 111 FUTURE PLANS GRES has a strong faith that little intervention in need makes big difference, thus the success as mentioned above has encouraged GRES with following future programme: • • • • • • •

To organize water resource management programs Establishment of Rehabilitation and Care Center for Women in distress Establishment of four Water Harvesting Structures to provide irrigation facility to 12000 Hectares of land. Plantation of 120 acres of Medicinal plantations Establishment of a Rural Hospital Establishment of a Common Facility Center for providing training and skill Establishment of an Artisan guild for jute product /craft workers. Creation of Employment opportunity for 5000Men/Women by Dec’2008.

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Establishment of an Old Age Home for Poor Old Aged People. Establishment of a Crèche for care of orphans, kids and adoption. Organize Seminars at district level on Environment, women empowerment ,child rights etc Prevention of Trafficking and Rescue, Rehabilitation and Re- integration of Victims of Trafficking for Commercial Sexual Exploitation Training programs to the fishermen community To implement a programme on “Reproductive & Child Health Care To establish Indian Forum for Youth

Sadasivuni Krishna Kumari Secretary

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