About

Organizational Objective:
To make livelihoods sustainable by providing employment to women and backward class families.

Our Dream:

• By the year 2040, ten thousand families lead a better quality life.
• Village development plans are prepared and successfully implemented by women, tribal, and rural families.
• Each family's annual income reaches Rs. 3 lakhs. Health expenses account for less than 5% of total family expenditure.
• Traditional, cultural arts, and values are respected, prioritized, and sustained.
• All out-of-school children return to school and pursue further studies. Women and tribals secure their rights by raising their voices respectfully and assertively.
• Farmers, especially tribal farmers, see increased business capacity and earn additional income. FPOs become a national-level resource training center.
• Wealth is created from waste and trash, and green villages are shaped.
• Deeksha Mahila Welfare Society & Mandali becomes a unique, self-reliant force, continuously working for public welfare.

Our Path:
Making our dreams a reality through collective efforts and actions involving partnerships between people, government, private institutions, and voluntary organizations, keeping the village as the center.

Our Work:

• Empowering women through integrated agriculture-based livelihood provision, education, skill development, and promoting savings. Protecting natural resources: air, water, land, and forest wealth.
• Conducting health camps in tribal and rural areas, improving sanitation programs.
• Working for the mental development of students through value-based education systems.
• Forming and developing the capacities of farmer producer organizations.
• Providing safe drinking water at low cost to tribal families.

Achieved Results:

• 2000 farmers from 63 panchayats in 4 mandals adopted organic farming; construction of 15 check dams, 7 ponds, 9 farm ponds.
• Establishment of 12 safe drinking water plants in 7 mandals; provision of tap water to 504 villages.
• Development of 85 villages as green villages; skill development for 990 women and support to help them run their own businesses.
• Establishment of 60 self-help groups and provision of investment loans through banks.
• Establishment and management of libraries in 21 government high schools.
• Establishment of 4 FPOs, with each FPO conducting business worth 1.5 crores.
• Setting up 3 collection centers, a mobile rural mart van, cold storage, a millet processing unit, a pulverizer, a dal mill, an oil mill, and a turmeric powder mill to address farmers' needs.

Major Supporters:
NABARD, Azim Premji Foundation, ICAD & APCBTMP, Tata Trust, Agriculture Department, Horticulture Department, Swasthi The Health Catalyst, Swadeshi Chamber of Commerce, Jalanjeevan Mission, Goonj, Rashtriya Vidya Mission, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, etc.
Agricultural Research Center Ankapalli and Vijayanagaram, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Rastakuntubayi.

Future Plans:

• Developing 16 tribal villages in Saluru Mandal as model villages.
• Establishing a jaggery powder and chocolate manufacturing center.
• Implementing a backyard garden model in every house to prevent anemia and blindness.
• Enhancing the capabilities of tribal youth through trainings and meetings, showing employment paths.
• Developing FPOs as national-level resource centers.
• Conducting skill development programs for women's empowerment.
• Providing basic infrastructure in tribal villages.

Our Appeal:
Requests for cooperation by providing projects, grants, and donations for developing infrastructure in tribal and rural areas, improving economic conditions, creating employment opportunities for youth and the unemployed, reducing infant mortality, building clean and beautiful villages, and for the welfare of farmers.