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Rural Development Service Society has been working for past several years in Visakhapatnam and Srikakulam districts towards effective implementation of MGNREGA in ~11 mandals in the above two districts.
This project primarily focuses on creating awareness on various aspects of the law, ensuring that works are assigned and properly carried out as per village gram sabha decisions, expose irregularities in wage payment. Regular trainings are conducted for labourers and workers from other NGOs on applying for job cards and getting receipts for the same, measuring work done at the NREGA site, examining muster rolls, wage payments, conditions of the work place etc.
More
than 10,000 people, including 4000 children, are living in 250 makeshift settlements, spread across the
remotest corners of Khammam.
This winter is
one of
the most severe winters we have seen in India in recent times. It is
impossible to imagine how these severely malnourished children are going
to survive in this cold, without proper clothes. When they had migrated for the
first time, the children had to apply ash all over their bodies to
prevent cold and mosquitoes, such is the level of impoverishment. We therefore appeal
to you and your friends in Hyderabad, to donate children's
clothes, we will
distribute at the IDP settlements. To donate, please contact Suresh
Kumar, (04027823268, 8801880573) | deepalasuresh@gmail.com,
In the struggle for wages, workers have taken another step forward. With support of Ajay Kumar of Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vrutthidarula Union (APVVU) workers filed complaints against
sub-minimum wages paid in NREG works. The Court has given the government 2 weeks to pay
wages in full. Story in today's Hindu
Since 2008, AID has supported relief, rehabilitation and civil rights advocacy for the tribal families who have been displaced from their homes and lands in Chhattisgarh and have sought refuge in the forests of Bhadrachalam in neighbouring districts of Khammam and Warangal in Andhra Pradesh. Working with Agricultural and Social Development Society and Internally Displaced Persons Solidarity Group, the people have made significant progress in obtaining basic rights, as detailed in the reports below. Yet enormous work remains to assure daily survival as well as midterm and longterm rehabilitation for all of the displaced families.
Greetings on Ambedkar Jayanti. The video we feature on this occassion is a call to join movements helping farmers, tribals, dalits , weavers and fishworkers. Sung by Ajay Kumar of Andhra Pradesh Vyvasaya Vrithidarulu Union (APVVU) at Revathi's Organic farming workshop organized by AID-Srikakulam.
Many people have the feeling that things that are seen in villages like bamboo, hay and jute have limited use. Working in new ways, to make cookers inspired by traditional ideas, women of Srikakulam have laid the foundation to prove this wrong. The experiment they have launched has succeeded.
Eight nutrition and education support centers, started in January have been continuing for the children, pregnant women and lactating women in five mandals of Khammam district where malnourishment was high among the children and where children were prone to death. 234 children, 12 pregnant women and 21 lactating women (total of 267) have been identified and supported with food and 143 children with education.
On April 14th 2009, the Andhra Pradesh Women Development and Child Welfare Department extended the Integrated Child Development Services to the Internally Displaced tribals in the Bhadrachalam and Palvoncha division in order to combat the rising malnutrition and occurence of poor health in the regions. In Khammam and Warangal districts, AID supports Agricultural and Social Development Society (ASDS) which has worked on surveying the families, providing humanitarian relief, and helping people apply for ICDS services. We congratulate them on this positive step and support their struggle to secure services for all.
The Hindu, June 7 2009 Srikakulam: The Association For India's Development (Aid) India, an NGO working in Tholapi village in Pondur mandal has good news for housewives [home-makers], working women and kitchen managers. The NGO designed an ‘easy cooker’ with the innovative bamboo technology which are selling like hot cakes. Click picture.
AID supported humanitarian relief efforts to help fleeing tribals of Chattisgarh, including repatriation of some of them (left pic. is of a displaced woman repatraited).... Background: The tribals of southern Chhattisgarh experienced severe forms of violence in the conflict between the state armed salwa judum and the maoists/ naxals. They fled to the border areas of Andhra Pradesh and are living under precarious conditions with no land to cultivate, no work to do. The relief work is implemented by ASDS.
In the struggle for wages, workers have taken another step forward. With support of Ajay Kumar of Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vrutthidarula Union (APVVU) workers filed complaints against
sub-minimum wages paid in NREG works. The Court has given the government 2 weeks to pay
wages in full. Story in today's 
