BIRDS
is a non-profit organization established in 1991 at
Nandyal, in Kurnool district of Andharapradesh, India.
Founded and directed by Paul Raja Rao, BIRDS has grown in the past six years from a grassroots attempt to empower the Dalits and provide a few microfinance loans to groups of women attempting to form cooperative business ventures, to a major NGO non-profit, touching the lives of stens of thousands of untouchables each year.
BIRDS works with Dalits, women, children and farmers
on several issues like:
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untouchability
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social discrimination
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human rights
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women issues
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gender rights
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women's empowerment process
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health issues
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child labor
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bonded labor
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farmer suicidal issues
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organic agriculture practise
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ground water management programs
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farmer field schools
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malnourishment
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HIV prevention programs
These are the major activities we are involved
in the rural and urban parts of our area.
We are also running a 10-bed hospital for the
benefit of dalits, tribal and agriculture farming
labor in remote rural areas.
We are very interested to work on the prevention
of malaria in
children, especially among the infant children, but also the adults, to
prevent them from frequently falling sick and becoming unable to work
in the field to earn their dailly bread, then indeed
becoming the indebted.
