WELCOME to SEVABHARATI (Western AP)

Sevabharati, AP is a Registered NGO for Western A.P Based in Hyderabad, with a wide reach in Telangana, Rayalaseema districts and is running the following projects.

Sevabharati, AP is a Registered NGO for Western A.P based in Hyderabad, with a wide reach in Telangana, Rayalaseema districts. Serving the needy and neglected to bring them their lost glory through literacy and self-reliance. Providing medical aid and need based other activities are a priority. Co-ordinating such other organisations and linking them to the needy has been a vital part and parcel of the activities. Among others the following projects.

Tribal Welfare Apart from Hostels for the tribal students Seva Bharathi has taken up an awareness drive to make the Tribals closer to the main stream. Organising Medical camps, improving educational standard and standard of living are some to mention. Chenchus of Srisailam, Gonds of the Adilabad, lambada of the Warangal Dist are some of the Sevitas (Beneficiaries)

AWARENESS Campaigns: The Chenchus are the most Primitive Tribe in AP, Sevabharati with the active support of CAPART, a rural development agency has completed conducting awareness campaign to them. Till date 173 Tribals /Chenchus from 21 Gudems are trained and given awareness in a series of 8 camps on various subjects of relevance.

TRIBAL HOSTELS: Tribal Hostel for the Chenchus (BHAKTA KANNAPPA GURUKULAM) in Srisailam with 23 Tribal Boys. Two others for the Gonds and Kollhams of the Adilabad dist are being run at MANCHIRYAL (Ekalavya Awasam) with 57 children, ASIFABAD (Vyas Ashram) with 11 children.

HEALTH FACILITIES: The Epidemic Breakdown in 1998 has left a scar in the minds of the Tribals of Adilabad. SEVABHARATI has treated and provided preventive drugs to the Diaharrea affected 80,000 people of the District. Apart from this crisis management the Organisation has been conducting general and Special Medical camps in the Tribal pockets of Asifabad, Bhainsa and Utnoor. There are a total of 12 medical aid centers in the interior tribal hamlets working tireless for the benefit of the tribal berthern. A Medical Dispensary On wheels moves around the Chenchu Gudems of kurnool District supported by the GOI Min Of Tribal Affairs.

CULTURAL ACTIVITIES : Promoting native arts and traditions in the traditionally rich tribals has been on the priorities of SEVABHARATHI. The organisation has been conducting Gussadi sammelan for the past 5 years in Utnoor and Surrounding areas. There used to be individually celebrated in each village but now the organisation has brought 5 villages or more as a cluster and conduct a traditional get together. The lambadas of warangal, Gonds and kollams of Adilabad and rural art song and dance have been focal points of development.

HELPING HAND TO THE DIFFERENTLY ABLED MANONETHRA : The program is a helping hand to empower the handicapped in general and the Visually handicapped in particular. A full-fledged audio library for the Visually handicapped and tutions with counseling also Medical facilities are being provided at the hostels in particular and at the office of Seva Bharathi in general. A total of 250 blinds have benefited the services. The organisation is active in 4 of the 11 Government hostels for the blind in the twin cities and plans to extend the services to the remaining. There is also a Physically handicapped hostel in Warangal run by Govt. and in Nalgonda Seva Bharathi co-ordinates a school for the Visually handicapped run by a Visually handicapped person. Counselling sessions have yielded beautiful results in the orthopedically handicapped hostels of Nizamabad. Sessions are organised in shlokas, and basic awareness in health and personality development.

EDUCATION Single teacher schools : The single Teacher Schools located in interior tribal and most backward areas where literacy is at a very low level have been providing the fruits of education to them. Some 4397 children are benifited from the program in 200 tribal hamlets running 151 STS as the govt. could not reach these interior villages. Adoption of schools by donors is a special feature of this project. This is an important step in bringing literacy essentially to the neglected children. Another point of mention is the teacher selected from among the better educated locals and trained to the cause. The TEACHER (91such teachers are presently on a mission to bring about a change among their fellow men and women) will be the center of all future development activity in the village.

PRIMARY EDUCATION CENTERS : The epicenters of literacy campaign are the 5 full fledged schools providing education to 550 students at Proddutoor (Cudappah DT.), Kollampally (Mahaboobnagar DT.), Machupahad (Warangal Dt.), Balajinagar (Hyderabad), Kandukurti (Nizamabad) with full fledged teaching aids and staff. The single teacher schools are also an additional activity these Primary education centers take up with conviction.

Child labour : Apart from the regular schools Seva Bharathi is conducting 9 schools for the Child Laborers at Mahaboobnagar dist. The schools are an effort successfully organised for the past several years and funded by the DPEP. The Schools have 600 students all selected from the child labourers . A total of 9 Residential bridge schools one under the co-ordination of the ILO and the (Consortium of Employers’ Associations for the eradication of Child labour) CEASE and other 8 are being run by Sevabharati with 600 children and already 3000 of them stream lined to regular schools. The campaign for eradication of child labour paired with alternative education with innovative methods has made the children earlier child labourers now stay with sevabharati to get back to school.

Adult Education centers : Adult education centers are giving the taste of learning to 55 women all vegetable vendors and daily wage labourers in Dindigal and 32 women in Nandyal. This effort forms a part of a wider agenda on total literacy through Information, communication and education as three strategies.

Affection Homes : For the helpless destitutes that deserve a helping hand Sevabharathi has set up 10 destitute homes for 272 children, like Vatsalyasindhu for boys and Vaidehi Ashram for girls in the twin cities. Out of which 4* are completely for Destitute children and 3() for Economically backward, 3^^ of them for Tribal children.

NARAYANPET (Keshav Awasam*) SRISAILAM(Bhakta kannappa Gurukulam^^)

KURNOOL (Annapurnamma Awasam()) NANDYAL (Sanghamitra Awasam*)

JAGITYAL (Valmiki Awasam()) MANCHIRYAL (Ekalavya Awasam^^)

ASIFABAD (Vyas Ashram^^) BHAINSA (Vivekananda Awasam())

HYDERABAD (Vaidehi Ashramam*) HYDERABAD (Vatsalya sindhu*)

351 Balsamskara Kendras and Coaching Centers are also run at various places. A big voluntary effort by people drawn from all walks of life is behind the Project. The working parents (mostly slum dwellers, tribals and labourers) cannot pay the required attention to their Children. Seva Bharathi motivates them towards literacy. Imparting Samskaram is the most striking feature of Seva Bharathi where we stand different from others.

HEALTH Medical Aid: (1) A ten-bed hospital in Gokavaram, Atmakoor Taluq, Kurnool district has been the life-line for the rural poor. It has rendered medical service to 20,000 patients from 35 villages in and around Gokavaram in the year2000-01. There are 20 medical Centers running regularly in the rural tribal areas of Adilabad apart from regular camps in remote tribal villages. Voluntary participation of doctors and Medical representatives is the important feature.

(2) Community Health workers : With a view of building up a Health mechanism from among the suffering and needy so that they understand and make their fellow being understand Health and Hygiene. A Selected gropu of 60 volunteers have been picked up and trained in First Aid and other Health Topics. The aim of the programme is to pick up rural youth and train them in rendering primary health aid. Teams of 15 doctors of different specialties guide the effort. The community health worker is trained in dealing with all the information and practical training of Health services. It is decided to conduct such camps in all the districts in the state.

(3) Sanjeevani Mobile Clinic: A mobile Dispensary taking home the message "Doctor to the doorstep". Serving 11 urban slums with population of around 5 lakhs, all poor and neglected. Sanjeevani spreads awareness along with treatment. A total of Rs. 25,000/- worth medicines are distributed free of cost every month to the needy. Also the striking feature of this mobile medical Clinic is it contributes in overall development of the Slums apart from health. Sanjeevani has responded to the call of the Orissa and Hyderabad cyclone victims and served them till the last minute possible.

(4)TB: THE POOR MAN'S DISEASE The king of all the deadliest diseases as it is refered to, TB kills more than all other diseases combined together. SEVABHARATI has been working in 4 places to eradicate TB. The organisation is identified by Dist administration of Medak district for TB control program. Seva Bharathi Medak Dist unit has been successful in setting up 200 voluntary DOT providers in 30 PHC's. From the whole of Medak Dist (as a unit) for this year, 103 patients are being regularly administered medicines by Seva Bharathi. 40 patients are cured.

In KURNOOL 16 patients are being treated in and around. With local Doctors taking the initiative it has been a sustainable effort inspiring doctors in Nandyal. Also in twin cities TB is being identified and the 5 detected patients are being treated. Here again the striking feature is Public adoption and free medical check up voluntarily by the Doctors.

Blood Donors list: A listing of about 120 voluntary blood donors each in 7 different locations and assistance for the same is being carried out. Apart from this there is an informal structure of localized Blood Donor lists.

GRAMA BHARATHI Rural Development: To bring a sustainable change, 15 villages from each of the districts of Telangana and Rayalaseema have been adopted for comprehensive rural development under the active banner of Grama Bharathi. Grama Bharathi is a rural wing of Seva Bharathi working for the integrated development of rural areas and people. At least one village is selected from each district, programs are conducted so that the village is transformed into an ideal village, in a phased manner, in about 5 years. At present 15 such villages are selected from 7 districts. These villages have their own Grama Samithis (development committees). The primary activities are mainly counseling farmers regarding Education, Self-reliance, water conservation and watersheds, ecological conservation and tree plantation, Health awareness, and Social organisation.

SELF RELIANCE Women Welfare Center: These centers are called Matrumandalis and will bring together women in the name of Bhajans, spiritual get togethers, training sessions in sewing, handicrafts, health education, painting, music and financial management etc. The program also serves as a forum for the development of women in urban as well as rural places. All together Seva Bharathi is running 22 such centers in various places.

Thrift Program: There are 4 self-help groups with savings of Rs.14 lakhs in 4 villages. Timely assistance to the needy within the village is part of self-help motivational effort. This program is Co-ordinated among the backward sections of the society. It provides an oppurtunity to get to understand among themselves so that the village stands as one.

Vocational Training: The Organisation, to help the needy stand self-reliant has started Vocational Education centers for the women in pickle making, toys, Stitching and handicrafts; the present batch has 42 students. Till date 320 students passed out from 6 vocational training centres and atleast half of them are earning their livelihood on the vocational education.

Micro Credit: Sevabharathi also provides micro credit to the desreving and enterprenuering poor. The financial support is provided by TRUST GOVINDA TRUST (TGT) run by a retired ILO officer. Seva Bharathi selects the beneficiaries after careful verification by its volunteers and TGT provides the financial aid for the beneficiaries along with the required counseling. Till date 47 beneficiaries have benefited from the Scheme and Successfully repaid the amount except for 4 of them. Till date there have been tailoring, vegetable vendors, telephone booths,

URBAN COUNSELLING CENTERS : The organisation runs counselling centers in 4 urban areas with slum population. Warangal, Nizamabad, Hyderabad. These ceneters provide a helping hand to the needy in emergency medical aid, providing blood donation and such other need based activities.

NEED BASED ACTIVITIES Rehabilitation: The floods of 1996 have affected the lives of many. And one of the worst affected is the town of Someswarapuram in Cudappah dist. Seva Bharathi has taken up their cause and in co-ordination with the AP state Housing development corporation has built Pakka houses to the affected 40 families with a temple and school.

Need based Activities : Crisis management is one area where Seva Bharathi stands for experience. Be it in Orissa Cyclone or the recent floods in AP, or the more recent Gujarat eartquake, there was SEVA BHARATHI with all help, medical and physical help. Giving away utensils food and medicines, giving them a kind word, consoling the victims of the nightmare.

AP Cyclone: The floods of 1999 in AP especially in Hyderabad have marked devastation in 20 Slums of the city. Some 3000 families were affected it is estimated. Sevabharathi has taken up relief distribution for 1529 families including medical support to 700 victims as a precautionary measure and 5 lakh worth medicine food and relief distributed with 600 volunteers toiling day in and day out. Another thing of mention is the co-ordination of agencies interested in helping the victims of the flash floods, 3 such Ngo's were co-ordinated.

Orissa Cyclone: Sevabharatis’ Mobile dispensary Sanjeevani was the first to get in to action. 12 Doctors and 7 Volunteers with Rs.11.5 lakh worth medicines served the Victims for 7 days.

Gujarat Quake: In the name of Sevabharati Western AP Rs. 57.9 Lakh was sent to Gujarat for the Rehabilitation works Apart from 500 Blankets and Rs. 76,000/- Worth Medicines.

Tsunami : The Recent Tsunami has wiped of villages of Tamil nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala Sevabharathi AP has sent men and medicines as well as financial aid cortesy philantrophy of people in AP and abroad to the Tsunami hit farmers and fishermen.

Here is a brief profile in figures

NAME OF THE ACTIVITY NO.OF ACTIVITIES

Destitute Homes 10 --272 (Inmates)

Single teacher Schools 151(4 Districts, 20 Mandals)

Balsamskara Kendras 349

Child Labour rahabilitation centers 9 (850 students and 3000 streamlined)

Formal Schools 5

Medical Aid 20 centers

Mobile Medical Clinic 2 (23 slums and 16 chenchu hamlets)

Woman welfare Centers 22 (6 Vocational centers)

Thrift Centers 4 Centers (Rs.14 lakh)

Rural Development 15 villages

TB Control 2 projects (103 patients )

Blood Donor lists 7

Counseling Center for the Blind 1 (4 Govt. hostels for handicaped )

Urban slums (Hyderabad) Single Teacher Schools 10

(Nizamabad) Awareness centers 22

(Warangal) Health ceneters 3

For further details Contact:
SEVABHARATHI
Western A.P
3-2-106, Nimboliadda,
Hyderabad-500027
Ph:091-040-24610056
Email:sevabharati@yahoo.com

SEWA BHARATHI