Rural Development Trust Annual Report 16/17

Rural Development Trust Annual Report 16/17 Management Community-based Rehabilitation Regional Directors Dasaratha Ramudu Executive Director Adoni Anne Ferrer Habitat D. Shanmuka Rao K. Sagar Murthi Programme Director Bathalapalli Moncho Ferrer Ecology M. Mallikarjuna G. Nageswara Reddy Chairman and Director, Sponsorship BK Samudram M. Thippe Swamy Culture and Sports H. Vannurappa M. Nirmal Kumar Directors for India G.R. Prameela Kumari C.R. Sudheendra Rao Education D. Chandra Sekhar Naidu Communications G. Narayana Reddy E.F. Xavier Women Madakasira Doreen Reddy Monitoring and Evaluation M. Krishna Veni C. Harinarayana Rao Health Srisailam B. Sirrappa Central Procurement K. Mahammad Rafiq G. Mohan Murali Hospitals Dr. Bala Subbaiah Finance P. Mahaboob Bee Sanjeev Sangwan

Abbreviations and definitions AIDS GSN Patta Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Gram Swaraj Nidhi (Small Republics Legal papers pertaining Fund) to ownership of land Anganwadi Rural mother and child health care centre HIV PWD of the Government of India Human Immunodeficiency Virus Person with Disability/ Persons with Disabilities ART IFI Anti-retroviral Therapy India for India RDT Rural Development Trust ASV ITDA Sports Village Integrated Tribal Development Agency SHG Self Help Group CASA KRC Church’s Auxiliary for Social Action Key Resource Centre Vana Samrakshana Samithi Forest Protection Committee CBR LSIP Community-based Rehabilitation Large Scale Interactive Process VFF Vincent Ferrer Foundation, USA CDC M&E Community Development Committee Monitoring and Evaluation Vikalangula Sangha/Sangham Self help group of persons FVF Mahila Sangha/Sangham with disabilities Fundación Vicente Ferrer, Spain Women self help group WaSH Water, Sanitation and Hygiene inside...

01 02 03 01 03-07 09 Message from Context Timeline Executive Director The people and the land RDT approach Snapshot 2016-17 Broad areas of focus Districts covered by RDT 23-33 35-36 04 11-21 05 06 Empowering the Community Empowering the Individual Nurturing the Land Education for empowerment Learning and skills for employability Ecology: water and land Education as long term strategy and entrepreneurship use management for empowerment Vocational training Water management Education snapshot: a then Farming-associated livelihoods Land use management and now picture Outside farms: five-year Building awareness and solidarity Special-needs schools perspective Promoting equality Unconventional energy Community organization Culture and excellence sources Community groups and their Excellence in sports areas of focus India for India Achievements of organized community groups Healthcare Planning community assets Hospitals Women empowerment Primary health at grassroots level Self help in handling community issues Community-based rehabilitation 39 40-41 07 37-38 08 09 Creating Community Assets Awards and Recognitions Human Resource and Habitat Sector Capacity Building in RDT Achievements 2016-17

10 43 11 44-47 Partnerships in Financial Statement Resource Mobilization Vicente Ferrer “Hope is a beautiful word that should never disappear from our lives.” 01

Message from Executive Director

One of the highlights of 2016-17, These LSIPs bring together people, to support them in building was the joint effort of the Andhra representatives: men and women a better future for themselves and for Pradesh government and RDT to from all villages in a region, to talk their children. In 2014, RDT decided help almost 300 families relocate about their needs, to look for solutions to take stock of the direction the organization was headed in and in from a cemetery in Nellore. These and to promote a closer working plotting a course for the future. 540 families will now live in houses relationship with government officials. The objective is to promote leadership staff members, external consultants constructed by RDT, on land qualities in men and women so that and over 600 community members provided by the government. they can take greater responsibility in participated in the articulation of One more step towards a just the development of their communities. strategic plans for the next 10 years and equitable life for all. and the organizational changes The professional school of languages required to get there. RDT’s geographic footprint has reached started in 2012 and has had great RDT’s overall goal is to see that Bhoopalpally district of Telangana state. success. More than 80% youngsters all discriminated persons and We have initiated work in 276 villages secured good jobs every year in the communities, most particularly with Chenchu tribals who have been cities. So RDT opened a new school relocated from the forest, under the children, women, persons with in its complex at Bukkarayasamudram. aegis of the Forest Rights Act, and disabilities and drought affected With this additional school, RDT are facing the challenges of making farmers become empowered and make can accommodate, every year, 100 a life for themselves and their children a giant leap in their ability to exercise youngsters – boys and girls. In this in a new environment. RDT has a team their rights, and in their quality of life. work, we appreciate the dedicated there, of three staff, who are working effort of the highly motivated with people, discussing their problems Our thanks to all of you and to the volunteer teachers from Spain and exploring solutions. many people whose hard work and and other countries, who impart contribution makes everything possible. skills and share their knowledge An important focus in 2016-2017 with the youngsters. has been the strengthening and Anne Ferrer continuation of Large Scale Interactive November 2017 As was Vicente’s dream, RDT is always Processes in all the regions of RDT. trying to reach more villages, more

01 Vicente Ferrer “Poverty and suffering are not here to be understood, but to be resolved.”

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Context

The people

RDT’s goal is not just to make RDT approach The story of RDT is the story of poor communities economically Sustainable, long-term B. Nagalakshmi, who dropped out of school in Class 9, but has ensured self sufficient. RDT’s goal is to enable development as a goal the poor to be self-reliant through that her daughter completes her education and learning so that Community as main actor in its BSc in Nursing. they can be the prime movers in development their growth and development. The Knowledge, awareness, learning, It is the story of Lok Sai, a child with poor occupy the fringes of society: skills and community organization disability, who brought home a gold economically, socially, politically. This as empowering means to take medal in the Special Olympics is the community that RDT works with. decisions, assert autonomy and of 2015. move towards greater security It is the story of one of the most The land drought-prone regions of the country becoming the fruit basket Anantapur suffers from a natural Snapshot 2016-17 of Rayalseema. disaster every year. Drought— The poor are not so poor, not so the absence of rain, or untimely, backward, not disenfranchised. It is the story of increasing autonomy, unpredictable, scanty rainfall—is a Not just wards of the state, not self-reliance, self-confidence, self- natural disaster. The land is turning ‘beneficiaries’, but contributing respect and dignity of a community into a desert. Rocky, uneven terrain, members of the society in which whose main impediments to these the non-absorbing thin top layer of were a lack of financial resources soil, the lack of vegetation—does not they live. and a social hierarchy that limited help. The land yields grudgingly, in an The story of RDT is the story of their opportunities. area where 36% are farmers, entirely Suryanarayana, who was destitute dependent on unreliable rainfall. once upon a time, and who now helps The last good rain was in 2010. others by contributing `3000 every This year, Anantapur received year to the India for India fund. 98 mm of rain.

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Broad areas of focus RDT has spent 48 years in the Community organization Primary and secondary care field. Each step forward has been Balancing community and individual in community health a stepping-stone to the next step. interests, self-help, self-governance, Basic health; water, sanitation Each step has been arrived at with democratic participation of diverse and hygiene; rural clinics; hospitals a view to long-term resolution of groups, collective decision making deep-rooted issues. 3. Nurturing the land 2. Empowering the individual Solutions have been the result Ecology of understanding what is valuable Skills for income and livelihoods Water harvesting, conservation to an individual and the community Resilience through better coping and management; decision making and distilling these down to the mechanisms, improved skill sets, that is suited to the land that is most responsive strategies in alternative opportunities, especially getting increasingly desertified; alleviating poverty: for more vulnerable members of non-conventional energy sources the society 1. Empowering the community Creating community assets Education for empowerment Awareness and solidarity Creating corpus in the form of Investment in the child to build Awareness and understanding community assets and secure community potential to come out of rights and resources, community housing, village development funds, of poverty feeling and solidarity microfinance through SHGs

05 Anantapur Bhoopalpally Kurnool Region Mahabub Nagar Prakasam Nalgonda Guntur Jayashankar Bhoopalpally

Vijaywada

Srisailam Region Kurnool

Adoni Region

B.K. Samudram Uravakonda Region Region Nellore

Kalyandurg Region Bathalapalli Region

Kadiri Region

Madakasira Region

Districts covered by RDT

RDT’s work extends to 3662 villages RDT started working with Lambada discuss needs, problems and issues in eight districts of and Chenchu tribal communities in and act on them. and Telangana across 40 operational Jayashankar Bhoopalpally District areas covering eight regions, namely in Telangana in 2016. There are Communities have organized to BK Samudram, Bathalapalli, Kadiri, 525 families living in 19 tribal hamlets. mobilize government resources Kalyandurg, Uravakonda, Madakasira, The Chenchu are hunter-gatherers. They like ration cards, drinking water, Adoni and Srisailam. collect forest produce and barter these electricity and housing sites. for rice and provisions with Integrated RDT conducts awareness workshops Districts covered are Anantapur, Tribal Development Agency (ITDA). on children’s education, health, Kurnool, Prakasam, Guntur, Nalgonda, nutrition, sanitation and on gender Nagar Kurnool, Bhoopalpally, Nellore. RDT has set in motion a system of discrimination and violence. regular meetings where communities

06 Context

07 Vicente Ferrer “I have witnessed at first hand that this world can change.”

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Food for Work programme 1970-75 with funding from CASA

Community organization and land 1978 development with ICCO-EZE Health programme initiated Timeline Initiated Education programme with Action Aid 1982 Cultural programme Women Sector SHGs formed

1985 Aide et Action (AeA) Sponsorship

1987 Initiated Ecology work Immunization programme

Community-based Rehabilitation 1993 for people with disabilities 1969 Special needs schools set up Launched Fundación 1995 Vicente Ferrer (FVF) in Spain Vicente Ferrer and Anne Ferrer set up Rural Development Trust Inaugurated Anantapur Sports Village 2002 and upgraded sports programmes

Srisailam as base to work 2010 with Chenchu tribe

New resource mobilization 2012 centre in Mumbai India for India (the hundi movement) 2014 Strategic planning workshop

Washington office, Vincent Ferrer Foundation (VFF), in operation 2015 Work begun in three new areas in Kurnool district 2016 Expanded to Bhoopalpally and Nellore

09 Vicente Ferrer “I have faith in people and their capacity for action.”

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Empowering the community

Education for empowerment

In Anantapur, the most compelling 100% motivation for education has come 90% from children who went ahead and 80% did well. 70% From cajoling first generation learners to stay in school, today, RDT has 60% to hold a common entrance test 50% to screen students competing for scholarships for higher studies. 40% 30% Education as long term strategy for empowerment 20% RDT started education outreach in 10% 1975-76. Communities accepted Student retention percentage in secondary school 0% the idea of education as a means to advancement and empowerment only 1970-75 1985 1990 to Present day in the 1990s. It was slow progress 2016-17 because it required a change in attitude. In 1970s, only 15 out of 100 RDT persevered through the simplest Creating community assets/ public children went on to secondary of methods in the early days: spaces where children could be school. Making parents aware of the value groomed for school By 1985, this number changed to of education Vesting power in parents and 30 out of 100 children staying on. Encouraging enrolment communities, through community development committees, to have Between 1990 and 2016-17, Rewarding retention a say in supplementary school retention climbed to 70%. Creating means for students functioning, regularity of children Present day retention is 99.5%. to catch up with peers through and teacher recruitments. supplementary schooling before and after normal school hours

11 Education snapshot: a then and now picture In the 1980s, dropout rates Forty years ago, a poor child going were 70%. to school was an achievement. Today, retention rates are 2016-17, we have 99% and 99.5%, and children vie for 99.5% enrolments in primary and RDT scholarships to study secondary government schools. beyond 10+2 schooling.

In the 1970s, the gender ratio was Yesterday, day-to-day subsistence 1:5 in favour of boys in primary living was a challenge. school. In a cluster of ten villages, Between 2010 and 2016-17, there would be 1 girl attending 80 boys and 38 girls who came secondary school. through RDT’s special education Today, the boy : girl ratio in primary programme got government jobs; and secondary schools is 1:1. 106 boys and 89 girls are in corporate positions.

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Every number is an individual

Achievements in education “I am Rajesh from Gajekhanpalli village, 125km from Anantapur. Scholarship Goethe Institute and Institute I am a government engineer now. 30% of the education budget is of Foreign Language and Culture. But the journey was long and hard. So far, 138 girls and 135 boys spent on providing scholarships for I had this ambition of becoming have completed the course undergraduate and postgraduate a government employee since I was and 131 students (71 girls) courses. Students who perform well a child. But my parents were too poor in secondary schools are incentivized are presently studying. to pay my school fees. to attend quality colleges and universities and secure higher-level Knowing that education alone makes Incentivizing girls to employment. 40% are girls. poverty irreversible, I studied hard up continue school to Class X in the village government Coaching Girls dropping out of school usually school with good results. At this juncture, RDT recognized that a degree was coincides with underage marriage. RDT came into my life. With RDT support, not enough to compete in the job Persuading girls to complete I got into Sri Chaitanya Junior College market. The students needed to work intermediate is a tactical manoeuvre and then, Sri Venkateswara University on skills like language, articulation to offset early marriage. To incentivize Engineering College in Tirupati. RDT continued education, 1016 girls and expression; computer skills; sponsored my education and hostel were given bicycles. Till date, 15,273 personality development in order to accommodation. Soon after my bicycles have been distributed. compete in the job market. As part graduation, I got a job with TCS. of general education aid programme 112 potential early marriages were to individual students, 22 boys and prevented through counselling by But I was not satisfied. I went on to 41 girls are undergoing long term social teams facilitated by inter- do my post graduation and became coaching for professional education; sectoral staff. Assistant Engineer in AP government 934 students (431 girls) are studying Power Generation Centre. My father, in professional colleges. Venkata Ramana, still works for daily Talent outside textbooks wages as an agricultural labourer. Not Professional school for See report on identification for long. I am educating my brother and foreign languages of talent in sports and culture, sister. Poverty is now a thing of the past. on pages 26, 28 and 29. In addition, students undergoing My children will not believe, when I will coaching learn French, German, tell them that their grandparents once Spanish or Portuguese for one year, roamed like nomads for work. They will in tie up with Alliance Française, think it is a folk tale.”

13 Special-needs schools

What does it mean to have a special The health programme and community needs schools inclusive from the needs education? Special needs based organization, Vikalangula academic year 2017-18. children need specific resources. Sangham for the differently abled, RDT has developed the first sign converge efforts to identify children 683 students with disabilities language dictionary culturally relevant with special needs in the Early are pursuing higher education to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh Detection, Early Intervention effort. and 241 students technical/ professional education. after two years of field research. The Early detection and intervention helps dictionary has 2400 words, and age- families through timely rehabilitation In the international arena, they relevant language textbooks are being of children with special needs. wiped the floor with host country, developed for each class. Education and CBR Austria, in the floor ball finals in special-needs schools and got home a Winter Special Special teachers translate class Olympics gold medal in 2017. textbooks to Braille. RDT has a Braille See Lok Sai’s story on the opposite printing press that uses recycled paper RDT has 16 special-needs primary page. created in the Skills and Development schools and two secondary schools. unit of the special-needs school. The plan is to make all special-

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Every number is an individual

Lok Sai’s mother, Nagamani, is proud In 2010, Lok Sai’s mother heard about for the India floorball team for Winter of her son. Lok Sai was born to a poor RDT’s special school for intellectually Special Olympics, 2017, in Austria. family at BK Samudram. His intellectual challenged children at Uravakonda and The Indian team was pitched against parameters were below normal and she admitted him there. Lok Sai started hosts, Austria, in the final. Lok Sai stole his parents could not understand what by learning life skills like bathing, the show and scored four goals and was wrong. They went to doctors in brushing, dressing and eating. He India won the Olympic gold. This has Anantapur, Bengaluru and Hyderabad, learnt dance. His teachers identified his changed not only Lok Sai, but also spending thousands of rupees. The potential for sports and admitted him his family. Lok Sai now communicates doctors told them that Lok Sai was in the Bathalapalli Special Olympics effectively and has developed mentally retarded and there was no coaching centre. Lok Sai attended floor leadership qualities. medical remedy. hockey and floor ball coaching camps in Himachal Pradesh. He was selected

15 Vicente Ferrer “We cannot make every poor person rich, but we can make an organized community strong.”

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Community organization

When we started in 1969, Organizing communities has made RDT was the prime decision maker the following possible: Creating groups/Sanghams that focus on issues pertinent to these in its project area, in the battle against Getting the community talking. groups. At village level, then at poverty. Between 1969 and 2017, Getting women talking. To RDT. mandal level. The graphic on pages the community has taken ownership To each other, to their families, 18 and 19 shows the different of issues through participatory, to the government. groups that are joined by common informed decision-making. Creating shared community assets. purpose. In the form of public meeting Involving people in collective RDT, now, largely plays a facilitating spaces, which the community can decision-making. Organized groups and guiding role to communities in call its own: where people meet, are forums that allow voices to be varying stages of development. discuss, celebrate, and school heard, resulting in more democratic their children. outcomes.

17 Community groups and their areas of focus

Community participatory bodies

Community Self Help Group Development (SHG) of women Committee (CDC)

Networks participatory creation of SHGs of community assets

Women community decision leaders making

Mini banks, Women gender sensitization; health and hygiene, Development counselling and food and nutrition utilization of funds Fund workshops for men for women, children and aged

vocational training, girl child education, entrepreneurship prevention of early development focus marriage.

economic independence through income generation programmes under women development

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Vikalangula Community India for India Sangham health workers

Federation of PWDs via mandal rural clinics and OPDs individual for the and district community: collection Samakhyas through hundis

early detection and intervention early detection participatory and intervention, decisions regarding fund utilization counselling and medical regime training to parents follow up for and family members chronic conditions

volunteers

RDT special-needs awareness outreach schools WaSH women health and nutrition HIV/ AIDS utilization of funds

collaboration with government health programmes Community Groups

The work they do

19 Achievements of organized community groups

Planning community assets Women empowerment Self help in handling 1,02,178 women in 1586 villages Mahila Sanghams were formed in community issues have been independently managing 1982-83. Women needed economic Community Development Committees mini banks with monthly savings, assets to have an identity and the (CDCs) work on issues of community which they rotate as credit among Mahila Sanghams of the first 20 and village development through themselves to meet basic and years helped them build savings and mobilization of government resources emergency needs. Once in a while, become entrepreneurs. Today, there for community needs. This decade’s they withdraw part or all of their are 8138 Mahila Sanghams, with focus has been on the functioning of savings for use in income generating 1,12,367 members. government and community schools. activities or for individual fixed deposit bonds to meet future needs. The focus for this decade has been Of the 27,148 members, 13,627 are A mini bank amount of `25,85,98,970 gender equality and social justice. women. 13,292 women leaders, across was in circulation as on 31 March 2017. But what is the use of sensitizing 1258 network groups work towards only women? Men were roped in as strengthening women groups and RDT has constituted Gram Swaraj Nidhi advocates of gender equality after supporting social action teams working (small republics fund) in 988 villages. sensitization training in issues of on violence against women and girls. Under this, a fund of `130.57 crores, gender discrimination. Currently, covers 65,395 families in the form 405 social action teams are working In the Chenchu tribal region (Srisailam), of fixed deposit bonds. The annually on issues of violence against women 2139 members (1089 women), are accrued interest will be utilized for and on early marriages. working across 267 CDCs towards their prioritized collective or individual own development, and in particular, needs by communities (for example, Six women’s counselling centres towards mobilization of government approach roads, domestic toilets/ at Dharmavaram, Kalyandurg, resources. Leveraging the statutes bathrooms, electrification, drinking BK Samudram, Uravakonda, of the Forest Rights Act to obtain water, compound walls, community Gandlapenta and Kokkanti Cross, individual land rights has been a major centres etc.) counselled 638 women in 2016-17. achievement of the Srisailam CDCs.

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Every number is an individual

Community-based rehabilitation Leveraging state resources “My name is Nadimidoddi Adilakshmi. RDT’s Community-based Rehabilitation There are 2460 Vikalangula Sanghas I am 29 years old. I was struck by polio sector focuses on the needs of persons with 29,682 members working for when I was 8 months old. I joined school with disabilities. solidarity, justice, health, education, but other children made fun of me employment and economic Vikalangula Sangha—groups for because I was physically disabled. development, welfare and equal and by persons with disabilities I was very depressed, became irregular, (PWDs)—are the most evolved of the opportunities for PWDs according to PWD Act 2016. and eventually dropped out. My elder organized groups. They are organized sisters got married and I was alone with into mandal-level and district-level Vikalangula Sangha work closely my parents. My parents and I joined federations, called Mandal Samakhyas with the health and education the Vikalangula Sangham of my village and Zilla Samakhyas. sector for early detection and in 2003. In the Sangham, we learnt early intervention of children Vikalangula Sangha have a rights- about savings, government resource with special needs. dased approach with a clear philosophy mobilization and working on issues of of non-dependence. One of their These groups act as vital support people like me with disability. Then RDT mandates has been the implementation for parents of children with started a papier mâché centre in of the recently passed PWD Act 2016. disabilities, training them for BK Samudram. I joined it. Having missed They were the first in India to publish special needs care and more proper education, I was determined the Act in vernacular (Telugu) so as to inclusive, less discriminatory to be a good craftsperson. I became make it accessible to the community. outlook for their children. so efficient, that I was appointed as The CBR sector plans to cover new Till date, 33,708 PWDs have instructor in 2013 in the same centre villages and create awareness on mobilized `47,97,40,327/- where I learnt my trade. My confidence Niramaya Health Insurance Scheme from government programmes, went up. Twenty-six young women are of the Government of India. RDT also for livelihood activities. This year’s training under me. Our products are sold plans to initiate supported living figure is `3,43,55,600/- towards in the international market. We feel programme for persons with severe 1775 PWDs. so proud. The craft has made us self- and multiple disabilities. reliant. Having seen my worth, one of my cousins proposed to me. I made it clear to him that I will continue to work in this centre even after marriage. He gladly accepted.”

21 Vicente Ferrer “If we show people that they need not be poor, we will lead them out of misery.”

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Empowering the Individual

Learning and skills for employability and entrepreneurship

In Anantapur, where 72% population Women and people with disabilities A group earns `10,000/- for a temple is made up of farmers, non-agricultural who traditionally had never ventured festival or marriage. This seasonal entrepreneurship has grown out of home and were discriminated opportunity provides them an annual significantly as a result of alternative by, both, family and society, have found supplementary income of about skill development programmes by dignity in labour. They are financially `20,000/-. government, RDT and other NGOs. self-reliant and contribute to family income. Education and development This year, eight young persons from three villages were trained in tailoring. Diversifying livelihoods is a key funds for women and PWDs, and skill On average, they earn approximately strategy against the unpredictability training programmes are designed to `8000/- per month. Eighteen young of rain and uncertain income from further enhance their quality of life. persons from 17 villages were trained the farm. Alternative means of in data entry in 2016-17. earning protects the farmer against Vocational training the exigencies of drought and In the last 10 years, 39 students Women focus crop failure. have completed degree or diploma In the last decade, the Women Sector in professional courses related to Meanwhile, education has set the has trained 8346 women in income music, dance and sports, and have generation skills like agartbatti rolling, younger generation on the path to secured jobs in government or at tailoring, chalk making, book binding, greater learning and employability. RDT or are working as freelancers. kalamkaari, making sanitary napkins There are many facets to education Six hundred and twelve young men and herbal phenyle. Those trained in which bring out various talents in from 404 villages were trained in book binding and sanitary napkins children. Children with interest and driving (77 from 61 villages 2016-17). work in the RDT production centre, talent in culture and sports are given Eight groups of 13 young men each others are self employed. higher cultural and sports education were trained in Ram Lakhan drums. so that they may excel in those fields.

23 PWD focus Every number is an individual Handicrafts are a creatively and satisfied with the ANM course. I am now aesthetically rewarding occupation. “I am B. Nagalakshmi. I am from 284 young women with disability Kadiridevarapalli village, 20kms from doing the GNM course. If everything are currently undergoing training in Kalyandurg. When I was in Class 9 and goes well my daughter will also various handicrafts: in papier-mâché, only 16 years old, my parents got me graduate as a nurse. I am happy that making disposable plates and bowls married. By the time I was 22, I had a I am able to look after myself and my with tree bark, embroidery, creating daughter and a son. Meanwhile, my family with dignity. jute products, jewellery making, husband met another woman and tailoring, in making artisanal hand deserted my children and me. I came crafted paper. The finished products back to my village and started working find a market through handicraft as farm labour. Farmer focus outlets and are also sold on the Mitigating agrarian risk RDT Anantapur campus through the Some women told me about RDT Given farmers’ dependence on rain, Handicrafts Department of RDT. The Hospital at Kanekal and I joined as and Anantapur’s drought-prone nature, products have entered Bangalore a cleaning staff there, leaving the agrarian entrepreneurship is risky handicraft melas, and are exported to children with my mother. I decided that business. RDT encourages farmers to Spain. The handicrafts section is tied I should continue the studies that I explore alternative farm-associated up with the World Fair Trade Forum. was forced to stop when I got married. enterprises that are comparatively I passed Class X through Open School impervious to the uncertainty of the Six hundred and fifty eight students Society and went on to complete my rains and do not degrade the land. with disabilities are pursuing higher intermediate. I did not stop there. studies and 241 students are in I passed the ANM course and became Anantapur has a rocky, uneven technical/professional courses. terrain. Every year, RDT helps farmers a nurse in the same hospital where clear some of this land in order to I had worked as cleaning staff. I felt make it cultivable. Till date, RDT’s very happy. land development programme has carried out this exercise with 68,804 My daughter also became a general farmers across 1515 villages, clearing nurse and midwife. She now works in 1,42,381.12 acres of land. This year, Star hospital in Hyderabad. My son 5365.28 acres of land belonging has passed his intermediate. I was not to 1869 farmers in 52 villages was

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cleared of boulders and bushes, Farming-associated livelihoods Every number is an individual releasing an additional 4299.25 acres. Livestock and pisciculture provide a safety net to farmers in drought months. Raganapalli village is about 100km One of the ways that farmers are from Anantapur. A group of 16 families, RDT distributed 722 milch cattle seeking to spread risk over the year 15 of them landless, approached RDT benefitting 722 families in 48 is through horticulture. Anantapur in 2014-15 to support a dairy farming is now considered the fruit bowl of villages in 2016-17. enterprise. RDT facilitated purchase Rayalseema, supplying rainfed-suited Poultry is another component of of 18 jersey and half crossbreed cows. fruit like mango, sapota, jamun. The contingency planning for drought. The dairy farmers started delivering milk diversification into fruit orchards also 8861 birds were distributed has ecological ramifications: Turn to among 884 families in 125 villages to the Nallamada dairy on bicycles. In page 36 in Ecology reporting, for more in 2016-17. 2016-17, the group size increased to 26 members and made it practical for on this. 355 piglets were distributed the dairy workers to visit the farmers under piggery farm development Livestock rearing is an integral part programme in the last five years, for milk collection. The farmers have a of the productivity of mixed, rainfed benefitting 21 families in 21 net income of `12,500/- per month and farming systems; linked to agriculture villages. are repaying their loans for purchase but not subject to the impulses of the of cows at `2500/- per month. RDT 1,77,48,916 fisherlings and 83 weather. Livestock is a more equitably provides free fodder in the difficult fishing boats were distributed distributed asset, engages both genders, summer months. and for landless farmers, livestock is under the pisciculture programme insurance against hard times. in the last five years, benefitting 1982 families in 53 villages. The landless earn additional income from wages, and the landed say, “We 60,726 poultry heads were distributed under the poultry can get organic manure for our fields development programme, from dairy. We have better crops in our benefitting 9655 families fields.” All of them say, “Once our loans in 549 villages in the last five are repaid, we earn `15,000 per month. years. Of these, 8861 birds were We can buy an additional cow every distributed among 884 families year. We can have LIC policies. Our in 125 villages in 2016-17. children are receiving a good education.

25 Dairy farming and fodder growing constitutional rights and that they to spread awareness on are not affected by rainfall. We need are equal before the law. These superstitions among the not migrate. We will slowly emerge disadvantaged communities are Doddi Golla, a backward caste, as a dairy village with more members moving forward with self-respect for awareness outreach. joining. We will also form a milk- and solidarity. A training of trainers for 160 marketing co-operative and a milk The Chenchus, have leveraged youth prepared them to assist collection centre. We now contribute government policies that help cultural organizers in awareness to RDT through hundis.” them assert their rights and cultural performances and in training heritage, as well as access resources children in special cultural schools. and services made available by Fifty-two staff members and their Building awareness the government. teams were trained in Kuchipudi and solidarity Women hold 50% of the leadership dance, modern theatre, musical The tools to help communities positions in community and village- instruments and makeup. This negotiate injustice, discrimination level leadership forums. They take resulted in 1444 cultural camps involving 4804 schools and and inequality with dignity are varied. the lead in addressing issues of violence and discrimination against 6248 children. Here we focus on promotion of the women and girls. 13 students have taken up music idea of equality, sports, culture, and and dance in undergraduate studies. the India for India scheme as positive Persons with disabilities are battling tools to promote solidarity, pride and for equal rights and opportunities 312 youth were trained in Ram social harmony. in all areas of development. One Lakhan drums this year, which helps of their primary resources is the them earn a living. Promoting equality PWD Act 2016. Community groups and leadership Culture and excellence deal with issues that concern their life and relationships with The RDT Cultural sector produced others. They are aware of their a feature film, Moodha Nammakalu,

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27 Excellence in sports

Excellence in sports cuts across the spotting and counselling helps draw Achievements in sports education very rigid social and caste barriers in the best talent to the sports academy. Anantapur and helps promote social 459 students are being coached inclusiveness from a very young age. The ASV infrastructure supports in cricket, hockey, football, tennis, The Anantapur Sports Village (ASV) cricket, hockey, football, tennis, judo, judo and softball in the Anantapur has shown to improve perceptions of softball and archery across residential Sports Village. self-worth, self-esteem and confidence and non-residential programmes. Juan Manuel, Spanish marathon among children and has been a An academy trains 25 to 40 children runner, and his teams from healthy way to demonstrate the merits in a year, in ages ranging from Spain and India, ran an Ultra- of investing in self improvement. 13-18 years. Where the coaching is relay marathon of 170km, from residential, children attend regular Muddinayanapalli to Bathalapalli Every year, on National Sports Day, school in the vicinity. Classroom on 24th and 25th January 2017 for parents and children are invited to performance is monitored closely the cause of children’s education. the Anantapur Sports Village, where so that sports and education receive Indian floorball team, led by RDT’s children can try their hand at different equal focus. Lok Sai, won the gold at the Winter sports and can register on the spot for Special Olympics in Austria. further training. Besides this, talent Read Lok Sai’s story on page 15.

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Every number is an individual

Anusha comes from a family of association included her in the summer Yugandhar Reddy and physical trainer agricultural labourers in Bandlapalli coaching camp in 2014. With hard work Bommanna. “I am working on improving village, 60km from Anantapur. She had and strong will, she developed as a left- my run-up and action and I will been fond of cricket from her childhood. arm medium pace bowler. certainly perform in the coming South Indian tourney,” says Anusha. After she joined high school, she learnt From the district team, she went on cricketing basics from her physical to Andhra U-16, U-19 schools teams. education teacher. She started playing She played in the National Schools as an opening bowler for her school Cricket Tournament in Madhya Pradesh. team. Soon, she got the opportunity She took nine wickets and her team to participate in the RDT Rural Girls won the trophy. In 2016, she played Cricket Tournament. in Andhra U-19 team in Ranchi and her team was runner-up. She is presently With consistent performances in that studying at Anantapur and gets regular tournament, she caught the attention coaching from KS Shahabuddin of the coaches. The district cricket (ex Ranji cricketer), Srivas Reddy,

29 Vicente Ferrer “Many good actions together make a great big one.”

India for India

Spandichu. Sayam Andinchu: that the rural poor, save money in and spreading the message to be a Let your hearts respond and hundis for those in need. In 2016- part of the larger social movement, hands help. 17, the number of hundis reached creating a new hope, and paving the way for transformation of millions of RDT introduced the seva hundi 1,44,596, and the amount collected, ` lives. Symbolically, the proceeds from concept in a few project villages 4,46,54,175/-. Right from the first these hundis are collected on April 9, in 2012. Seva hundi are terracotta year, 2012, it was the communities Vicente Ferrer’s birthday. piggy banks in which, traditionally, who decided that this money should a family collects small amounts on be spent on orphans’ education. ` a regular basis, for offerings to the So, 3,01,72,266/- was used towards family deity. RDT adapted this idea the education of 995 orphans, and ` to pool together small donations 83,35,368/- for nutrition towards from and around the RDT project 5,550 Chenchu in Srisailam region. area to support the common cause. The goal of India for India is The success of the seva hundi, which sensitizing individuals and forms the foundation of the India institutions across the country for India programme, lies in the fact to help those in need. By sharing

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Healthcare

Though 70% India is rural, more Hospitals and, Pain and Palliative Care. There is than 70% medical facilities and The philosophy of the hospitals an infectious diseases hospital, which professionals are city-based. In the is compassionate, empathetic provides government-recognized last 20 years, RDT has built medical healthcare that is accessible to anti-retroviral therapy infrastructure to bring quality people, and affordable. The hospitals for AIDS patients. healthcare closer home. are closely linked with grassroots- Hospital use in 2016-17 RDT put up three general hospitals— level community health workers at Bathalapalli, Kalyandurg and and rural clinics for in situ OPD The hospitals saw 49,795 inpatients Kanekal; an AIDS specialized hospital; services, early warning systems in and 7,84,264 outpatient visits. seven rural clinics; and community health, and for follow up care. The Performed 1762 general surgeries, health outreach for primary Bathalapalli hospital is equipped with 6,354 family planning surgeries, healthcare, in collaboration with departments in Medicine, General 718 orthopaedic surgeries and Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, women SHGs, Vikalangula Sangha, 185 urology surgeries. Paediatrics, Traumatology, family counsellors and outreach Anaesthesia, Emergency, Intensive workers, to reach immediate project Care for adults, children and neonates catchment and surrounding areas.

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9071 child inpatients and, Follow up on pregnant and lactating Every number is an individual 1,89,388 child outpatients received mothers, infants. paediatric care services. Follow up and outreach on “I am Lakshmi from Indukuripalli Delivered 14,407 babies. importance of adherence to village in . I am 14 years old and study in Class 9. I was There were 3055 users of neo-natal medical regime for cancer and AIDS. one of 25 girls who participated in the intensive care unit and 1,617 users Collaboration with government adolescent girls workshop in my high of neo-natal mothers ward. health programmes on school at Thavalammarri. They tested immunization, family planning and 5800 persons with HIV/AIDS my haemoglobin: it was 7gm/dL. received anti-retroviral therapy (ART) tuberculosis. Awareness of access in 2016-17. ART is lifelong therapy. to government resources. I was shocked to know that I was All HIV positive pregnant women anaemic. The health organizers of RDT who came to RDT’s HIV/AIDS Achievements in grassroots consoled me and told me that I should hospital received ART during health outreach take nutritious food consisting of pregnancy. Therefore, their babies 5443 health awareness workshops groundnuts, jaggery, drumstick leaves, were born HIV negative. organized for 1,74,387 women and other leafy vegetables and above all, Field health centres referred adolescent girls in 27,878 villages my favourite ragi mudda. 9552 chronic/acute cases to RDT on the subject of WaSH and its hospitals. 1650 cases were referred relationship to health, anaemia and They also spoke to my parents . I was by the hospitals to higher medical early marriage. determined to improve my health and institutions. Six RDT rural clinics, of which two followed the diet suggested by RDT staff. were mobile clinics, treated 92,651 There was another workshop in my high Primary health at grassroots level patients. school after 3 months. I was delighted Good primary healthcare reduces Timely medical intervention helped to see my haemoglobin go up to the burden of disease. This is the special needs children deal better 9gm/dL. I told the health organizers objective of the rural and mobile with their particular disability by that I will continue the diet and will clinics and community health workers. providing specialized equipment reach 12gm/dL as quickly as possible. Their mandate is to: to alleviate their condition, and Spread awareness of basic through early enrolment of family preventive practices for common and PWD in rehabilitative care. conditions like diarrhoea, through RDT supported 706 HIV-infected understanding of sanitation, (415 women and 291 children) with personal hygiene and safe drinking medical/ educational/economic/ water (WaSH); relationship between community home care/nutrition nutrition and anaemia; implications support. The plan is to also sensitize of consanguineous and early people against the social stigma marriages; gender and health associated with HIV/AIDS patients. aspects with a special focus on Awareness activities are planned gynaecological problems, sexually in Adoni, Srisailam and Madakasira transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS. regions in 2017-18. Shift OPD load from hospital to The sector will collaborate with rural clinics and mobiles. the government in 2017-18 for Early detection of cases requiring the NTR Vaidya Seva, National medical attention and referral to Immunization Programme, hospitals. National Rural Health Mission and AIDS Control Programme. Early detection and intervention for cases requiring community There are 944 community health rehabilitation. workers across 924 villages.

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Nurturing the Land

Ecology: water and land use management

Anantapur is turning into a desert. 2. In farmlands: water harvesting, Land use management It records the least amount of rainfall soil conservation, crop Groundnut is a crop that is suited to in India, after Rajasthan. Surface water diversification, crop choice, rainfed agriculture. However, as the and groundwater are scarce. The land horticulture only crop grown year after year, it has is as poor as its people. 3. Non-conventional energy means: depleted the land of soil nutrients and solar and biogas made the crop vulnerable to disease. Being a farmer in Anantapur means This monocropping is detrimental managing water in a way that mitigates Water management to soil ecology as well as to crop the risks associated with low and production. Use of chemical fertilizers uncertain rainfall. In the last 10 years, RDT has built 3152 structures for water harvesting and pesticides also adversely affects The technical solutions are water and groundwater replenishment: soil quality and the quality of crops. harvesting and reducing water percolation tanks, check dams, pickup wastage. Long-term, sustainable anicuts, sub surface barriers etc. RDT’s Ecology Sector is creating solutions pertain to soil conservation This year, 36 such structures were awareness of demonstrable gains in and resuscitation: cropping choice constructed. alternative cropping patterns, with and cropping patterns need to be crop choices that protect the soil, as tailored to the capacity of the land Promoted micro irrigation systems well as improve the grower’s food to deliver, and require the farmer to like drip irrigation, and sprinklers for security and nutrition. be able to quickly respond to the judicious use of groundwater. status of the rains. Horticulture has been promoted as Drip irrigation promoted in 2402.48 a strategy to increase green cover, hectares, across 2129 farmers from improve area productivity per annum, RDT has adopted simultaneous 757 villages. parallel approaches: decrease dependency on rains, and provide long-term gains to the farmer. 1. Outside farms: long term 686 sprinkler systems put up in afforestation, increase in 650.2 hectares across 657 farmers vegetation cover from 194 villages.

35 Every number is an individual Outside farms: Five-year overview five-year perspective of long-term measures “My name is J. Gouramma. We belong RDT has been working with the As part of soil conservation to KP Doddi village, which is about government for over 30 years in 35km from Rayadurg. Like all farmers, measures, carried out earthen its afforestation and greening efforts I was crazy about groundnut crop, bunding in 75,222 hectares, to slow down an advancing desert. despite incurring losses year after stone bunding in 14,997 hectares The joint efforts include afforestation year. In 2001, after attending and pebble bunding in 22,265 and conservation of existing forests an RDT-organized workshop on hectares. Constructed 368 rock and other forms of vegetation with horticulture, I decided that I should try it. fill dams and 682 waste weirs. RDT-led people’s participation in Tank silt application was carried an organized manner. In 2002, I planted mango in 4 acres, out in 4195 hectares, for better water percolation. 950.5 hectares of barren hillocks which is half of my land. Three years were taken up for conservation convinced me and I planted mangoes 87,24,499 fruit plants were and plantation in 2016-17. in my entire land. But I was still doing planted, benefitting 26,901 Avenue trees planted along it in the irrigated way, wasting a lot families in 3293 villages in 203.65km in the last five years. of precious water. RDT proposed drip the last five years. This year’s irrigation. Changing to drip saved me a count is 2,81,390 plants across Social forestry taken up with lot of water, transportation and labour. 1310 families in 399 villages. Vana Samrakshana Samithi (Forest Protection Committee). Between 2008 and 2017, I had two drip 9,58,879 banana plants were irrigation units installed in my field. grown in a tissue culture lab. Unconventional energy sources The benefits of this will accrue By 2017, my net income increased to to 370 families in 95 villages. RDT installed 69 solar photovoltaic systems serving 227.4 hectares this `4,00,000/- per year. The income 269 vermi-compost units have year, benefitting 69 farmers across did not drop even in drought years. helped to further the tenets of 44 villages. My family and I are happy not only organic farming in the last five for our economic growth but also years. In the last eight years, five villages for contributing to the increasing have been provided electricity by Backyard farming saw 446.4 kg vegetation in our village.” the Habitat Sector. of vegetable seed sown across 428 backyards in 82 villages.

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Creating Community Assets

Habitat Sector

The objective of RDT’s Habitat Sector Every number is an individual RDT’s Habitat Sector is an example is to provide habitable environments, of how RDT’s principles, pertaining with attendant gains in security, D. Gollahatti is a hamlet of the Doddi to women empowerment and safety and dignity, and community Golla community who are either equality, self-help and democratic infrastructure as a way to bridge landless or own marginal holdings. participation, play out in practice. It social disparity arising from lack It is a remote village in Rolla area, is government rule to give patta (land of resources. about 175km from Anantapur. This is deed) in the name of women. People’s a hamlet in which women had to walk groups insist, while receiving pattas The Habitat Sector carries out its work to faraway fields or tanks or open wells from the government officials, to give them in women’s names. This has in collaboration with the government, to fetch even drinking water. Men helped done much to disrupt traditionally where possible. On its mandate are: women, losing wages. Children were austere notions of a woman’s worth; irregular to school, as they had to help Houses for poor and vulnerable raised the status of the woman in her their mothers fetch water. The Doddi sections home, besides giving her grounds to Golla approached RDT for help. Community assets in the form of feel more secure and confident. community halls-cum-schools Two, self-governance comes into play RDT dug one borewell. It yielded two when beneficiaries are selected based Village roads and causeways linking inches of water. This was sufficient for on criteria laid down by the people. villages separated by water or rivers the eighty Doddi Golla families living SHG women’s groups organize to Infrastructural amenities like water there. Needless to say, they are happy. procure patta for those selected. pipelines, electrification, water Women are able to cook on time; purification plants children go to school on time and men also can go to their work.

37 95% houses are built in situ. Each Gangulappa applied to RDT for a solar house has two rooms and a verandah, pump set and RDT sanctioned it. Now, Achievements 2016-17 plus a bathroom and toilet. The family with a combination of a solar-powered contributes through labour and RDT built 34 school buildings-cum- pump and borewell, Gangulappa laid supervision, plus an investment community centres in 2016-17, pipelines to water the plants. of `5000/-. and 2489 houses. RDT was key resource centre (KRC) This reduced the labour in watering for the government’s Swachh Every number is an individual the plants and also water wastage. Bharat mission. Under this scheme, The number of mango plants increased RDT constructed 13,990 toilets this Yerramanchi Gangulappa is a farmer to 370. The plants grew healthy. year, in villages allotted to RDT by from Buchaiahgaripalli village, which Gangulappa got eight tons yield and the government. `15,000/- per ton in the Dharmavaram is about 100km from Anantapur. Dug 34 drinking water bore-wells, and Kothacheruvu markets. Excluding He has 5 acres of land with a bore-well built one cistern and constructed `20,000/- spent on fertilizers and hand pump. Gangulappa spent `5500/- four water purifications plants. pesticides, Gangulappa received a net and bought 200 mango seedlings and This was carried out under the ` planted them in his land. income of 1,00,000/-. Gangulappa aegis of the Gram Swarajya Nidhi, says, “Workload has diminished and fruit wherein the village development He, his wife and his eldest son worked size has increased. I have been earning committee decides how to hard to water the plants. They used to `1,00,000/- every year, since 2011. I use the interest accrued, of a fill water into four drums from the hand am able to buy `30,000/- worth of rice corpus created to serve village pump and carry the drums on a bullock for my family and clothes and books for infrastructural needs. This corpus— cart and then pot water the plants. my children’s education. I could repay in the form of a fixed deposit— With their hard work and occasional `50,000/- of my previous loans. Now I is directly proportionate to the rains, the plants did well. In 2011, am even able to help others in need.” population of the village.

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Awards and Recognition

1. Saakshi group of companies 3. Indian Red Cross Society recognized presented Saakshi Award for the remarkable services of blood Qualitative Education to RDT. banks in RDT hospitals. His Received by Moncho Ferrer, Excellency Shri E.S.L. Narasimhan, April 2016. Andhra Pradesh Governor, presented the award to 2. North American Telugu Association Mr. B. Sirappa, Director, Community (NATA), presented Vincent Ferrer Health on 18 November 2016 Foundation (VFF), USA, an award in Visakhapatnam. in recognition of services rendered to vulnerable sections of society 4. The Honourable Health Minister, in Andhra Pradesh. Programme Dr. K. Srinivas, Government Director, Moncho Ferrer received of Andhra Pradesh, recognized this award on 26 May 2016 in RDT services in Anti-Retroviral Therapy on World AIDS Day Dallas, Texas. on 1 December 2016. Received by Mr. Krishna Reddy, Regional Director, Vijayawada.

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Human Resource and Capacity Building

How does RDT communicate its vision, building trainings for members mission and dharma to its staff? and leaders of community based 85% of RDT staff is locally hired. organizations. Large scale interactive In dealing with communities that programmes for members and leaders occupy the margins of Anantapur of CBOs focuses on mobilization of society, how does staff accord government resources. dignity and respect to interactions It is difficult to get experienced with communities, in keeping with professionals in rural Anantapur. RDT values? Experienced volunteers from India and abroad fill this gap. They help our staff Orientation for new staff is conducted upgrade knowledge and skills. whenever a new batch is recruited. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is Gender sensitization and leadership one of RDT’s support departments. trainings are regularly conducted It works in liaison with other for existing staff. Senior staff sectors, including other support undergoes cross-sectoral and cross- departments like Finance, Projects, IT regional exposures conducted by and Communication. M&E evaluates experienced directors, who share programmes and projects and provides anecdotes and experiences outlining quality information for publicity, RDT’s history, and the practical communication and fund raising. In application of RDT’s Dharma, Vision 2016-17, M&E undertook a baseline and Mission. Leadership/ gender/ survey for the comparatively new values/ community organization and areas of Adoni and Srisailam. It also development trainings were conducted undertook a study of slum households for 21 groups of staff covering 535 in Vijayawada, and compilation of persons. 2776 people attended 34 housing and village directory. trainings in 2016-17. A directory on water bodies, impact study of micro-irrigation, household Besides staff, the Human Resource sample survey and use of Skype in Development team creates, project monitoring will be major coordinates and oversees capacity initiatives in 2017-18.

40 Diversity figures at RDT

100% 90% 80% Women at RDT: Almost 50% of RDT staff 70% 143 154 927 75 1299 are women. 35% are 60% in leadership roles 50% 40% 30% 20% 74 86 893 95 1148 10% 0%

Senior staff Mid-level Grass-root Support Total level staff

100% 90% RDT recruitment policy 80% actively provides opportunities for people 70% 3 72 2 78 1 with disabilities 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 4 58 1 63 10% 0%

Senior staff Mid-level Grass-root Support Total level staff

41 Vicente Ferrer “To eradicate poverty takes many hands. I have only two.”

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Partnerships in Resource Mobilization

RDT mobilizes funds through its Resource Mobilization offices in Mumbai, Vijayawada and Anantapur in India, Fundaćion Vicente Ferrer in Spain and Vincent Ferrer Foundation in USA.

Our Mumbai office has forged valuable United India Insurance Company Ltd. has installed an India for India hundi corporate partnerships in the last and, construction of 110 toilets by Roca at the temple, for devotees to few years. Canara Bank took up the were other significant contributions contribute to. Government employees construction of two supplementary by our friends in the corporate sector. make periodical contributions to schools-cum-community centres. India for India. The hundi concept Bajaj Auto Ltd. sponsored the The Vijayawada office concentrates has caught the attention of donors construction of five supplementary on creating awareness about India in Spain and USA also. schools and one percolation tank. for India (IFI) movement in places The purchase of radiant warmers like Vijayawada, Bapatla, Guntur, In 2016, RDT celebrated 20 years of by Syndicate Bank, purchase of six Narasaraopeta, Machilipatnam, partnership with Fundaćion Vicente non-stress-test foetal monitors, Jangareddigudem and Nandigama, Ferrer (FVF) in Spain. FVF now has pulse oximeters and ETO sterilizers covering schools, colleges and 1,54,068 partners. and, construction of five anganwadi universities, business centres, centres and microbiology lab by industries and individual donors. Vincent Ferrer Foundation (VFF) in USA General Insurance Corporation of India, was started in 2015-16. This centre community-based rehabilitation for The foundation of India for India will help RDT expand its present area persons with disability by Alisha Torrent movement is the hundi concept, which of action to three new areas in Adoni Closures India Pvt Ltd., integrated has caught the imagination of many region in Kurnool district. development of Valasa village by donors. A temple priest in Anantapur

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