Chaitanya Educational and Rural Development Society

District

Guntur

Palnadu

Bapatla

States

Andhra Pradesh

Water scarcity has left many of the sea-coastal villages underdeveloped. Due to the unavailability of water sources in the vicinity, most families would have to spend their time and effort having water for their daily needs. This impact on their wages and children's education. Keeping in view of the conditions, CERDS is installing bore wells at low cost in such sea-coastal villages by using simple technology and locally available material at their vicinity.

District

Guntur

Palnadu

Bapatla

States

Andhra Pradesh

HIV does not only affect individuals, but the whole family. The financial burden of HIV can be enormous on a family, especially if several family members are sick. Many HIV patients also report losing their livelihood after being diagnosed with HIV. The combination of decreasing income and increasing health care costs may prevent the family living with HIV from getting their basic needs met. The epidemic disrupts livelihoods, affecting productive activities and increasing the household dependency ratio (due to disease and orphans), and resulting in increased food insecurity and malnutrition. Keeping in view of the vulnerability of these people, CERDS provides a bag of nutrition provisions containing Raagi Powder, Wheat Ravva, Red gram, Milk Powder and Eggs to HIV-affected people every month. And also sensitise the people infected HIV/Aids to get proper health and medical support from concern linked ART Centres timely. Due to this, life span and working capacities these people would be increased.

District

Guntur

Palnadu

Bapatla

States

Andhra Pradesh

Most of the tribal families live in Sea-Coastal areas depend up on fishing, collecting firewood, rickshaw pulling, scavenge and domestic services. Fishermen life is miserable and they are leading a life with hardship with their meager income. Sometimes, their economical conditions force them to live with hunger. Fishing is their traditional occupation and though the younger generation was given facilities for education, their performance was very poor and there were many dropouts from the school. Most of them still continue fishing. Fishing in the lake, small ponds and canals is done mostly “Vatty and hook and line practices, which are traditional and need much time and energy to catch fish. Sometimes, they wouldn’t get enough fish even to meet their daily expenses and thus, the conditions force them to live with hunger. CERDS provides fishing nets, which helps them to catch many fish in all seasons in all types of water bodies. These nets help them to improve their economic status and to get better yields by their traditional occupation of fish catching. There are several types of fishing nets available in the market for catching various sea-fishes.

District

Guntur

Palnadu

Bapatla

States

Andhra Pradesh

Promote rural based and low risk profile livelihood units for improving the economical status of disadvantaged women. Noting that poor, uneducated women are usually left financially helpless in the society. CERDS helps them earn money by donating milch animals to widows in the villages nearby. One animal, usually a buffalo, is donated to each beneficiary. Eventually, the animal gives birth to a calf. It immensely helps its owner to have at least two milch animals. After 3 years, in the season that one of them doesn’t produce milk, the other one will helps to earn by selling milk products. Hence, target women can have always stable livelihood by her milch animals

District

Guntur

Palnadu

Bapatla

States

Andhra Pradesh

We may like “progressive” women, but the realities in rural areas are harsh and rigid. Girls aren’t encouraged to pursue jobs and dreams beyond their village, because understandably, their safety is an issue. For parents to confidently send their daughters even to the nearest town for anything – better education, jobs – is a big deal. The rural hinterlands, picturesque as they are from a road trip in a car, are not accessible by bus or other public transport. Even if they are, there is never an assurance that the roads are safe for young women. Many of these girls are content in their little worlds, not really caring for an education. CERDS tries to work within these constraints, and helps women build skills and earn money right within the limits of their villages. The Society does this by training teenage girls and young women in tailoring at local master tailors for a period of three months.