Brief history of the organization

Our Mission is:

To promote sustainable community development process in Prakasam  District, which leads to improved socio-economic, political and cultural standards of Dalits; Tribals and other marginalized rural communities. This is aimed through a scientific process of rural animation that includes gender justice and organization, leadership enhancement and the socio- economic, cultural, and political empowerment through critical conscientization”.

The Vision is:

The Society in non-sectoral, non-political, secular body that commits to endeavor for the well-being of the rural and urban population. The benefits of the Society shall be open to irrespective of Caste, Creed and  Religion, in the district of  Prakasam.  Serving the poorest of the poor is our goal and aim.

This is a charitable organization started in 2008 at prakasam District which is the part of the Diocese of Nellore to empower the defenseless, discriminated, de-rooted and dehumanized men, women and children in following the Gospel Values

Since 2008 PDSSS was observing this most sympathetic situation of our rural people and poverty stricken rural villages, with deep reflection and critical outlook. PDSSS sincere commitment didn’t allow being a passive out-looker of sufferings and hard life of our poor people. PDSSS took it as a challenge forced to change this situation and make our village’s best place to live.

PDSSS aims to lift the poor and marginalized rural people, from bondage, misery, helplessness, hopelessness, poverty, ignorance, illiteracy, communalism, unemployment and inequality. The regular interventions of PDSSS are emergency relief, awareness activities on community evils, health, animation and leadership, sustainable and empowerment plans, self help activities, skill training programmes, village organization, campaigns against child labor, girl child and female, gender discriminations, caste discrimination and social action activities

Working for the welfare and integral development of the target communities who are poor and marginalized [in the socio-political, economic and religio-cultural aspects] through formal and non formal education, conscientizing and mobilizing programs, self employment schemes, medical and health oriented programs, community development programs, savings and cooperative programs, vocational trainings and any other such program aimed at the integral development of the individual, family of the community.

Report of the Past Training Activities

I have the experience in giving training in:

• Forming the self help group

• Animating the women

• Giving training in Tailoring

• Computer training

• Forming former groups

• Women awareness programmes

• Worked Child rights

• Worked for Women rights

• Visitation of 56 Counties or Mandals

• Collecting the data of the poor in 56 Counties

• Construction of Roman Catholic School at Ganeshpalli parish

• Construction of Vocational Training Center at Podili

• Providing safe drinking water for 15 Villages

• Electrical training for 30 school Drop outs

Present Ongoing Projects

• Bedside Nursing for School Dropouts

• Women Empowerment through Tailoring and Embroidering in 4 mandals or Counties

• Women Empowerment in 20 downtrodden villages (10 MANDALS)

• Driving Learning for 30 school Drop outs

• Electrical training for 30 school Drop outs

• Animation for 20 women leaders

• Giving enlightenment in the villages

• Training the women groups

• Construction of Roman Catholic School at Ganeshpalli parish

• Construction of Vocational Training Center at Podili

• Providing safe drinking water for 15 Villages

• providing 15 spring wells fro 15 parishes

• and from April Beautician course for 30 girls, training in Diesel mechanism for 20 boys is going to take place

• Construction of Boys Hostel at Bestavripet

Background of the Area and the Focus Group

Prakasam district is the most neglected and underdeveloped area and it needed an organized concentration to address the issues at macro and micro level. The government of Andhra Pradesh has announced this district as drought prone district. PDSSS became imperative to give special concentration on Prakasam district. The immediate need identified, therefore, is to develop basic infrastructure, animation processes, leadership formation and a continuous process of capacity building initiatives. These process will pave way to speedy and sustained process of empowerment in this rural district.

Having situated in the South-Eastern India, Prakasam is an administrative district in Andhra Pradesh. The district headquarter   is located at Ongole. It is one of the coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh. According to the 2001 census, the total area of this district is 17, 626 sq.kms with the population of 3, 054.941. The literacy rate of Prakasam is 57.86%. Sex Ratio per 1000 males is 998 females.

The target group of the project will be mainly from Dalits (75%), Tribals   (5%) and backward communities (10%). The Dalits and Tribals constitute about 26% of the total population in Nellore diocese. They are mostly landless laborers, shunned socially by higher castes and neglected in social services, education, and health and are the most oppressed – culturally, socially, economically and politically, who live in abject poverty in hamlets segregated from the caste people.

Since the Dalits and Tribals together form  80% of the population  in Dornala area.  They generally engage as daily vendors. The men get an average of Rs.15O/- and the women get Rs.130/- per day’s hard work by selling onions, vegetables and plastic articles. Even this vendering going to different villages by bi-cycle or carrying the things on their foreheads is guaranteed only for about 5 – 6 months per year during the season. The rest of the year they remain unemployed struggling to meet their basic needs. Since they do not have alternate means of occupation or income they borrow money from the landlords for livlihood and emergency purposes, which leads to further dependency and even bondage with the landlords. As a result the Dalits and Tribals are not able to provide for themselves basic human requirements and live in sub-human conditions.

Aim for these Scheduled Casts:      

• To show some employment opportunities to the school dropout girls and other less educated married women,

• To supplement the regular income of the parents and husbands of the families.

• The marriage problem of these teenage girls can also be solved as these girls are earning on tailoring independently and helping the parents,

• This will also avoid sending of the poor less educated women as servant maids in the house holds of the rich local riots,

• The girls and women will have work and they need not spend their time idly,

• The women will have good respect from their husbands as they are earning members,

• The financial status of the parents and families will be improved with additional income of the girls and women,

• With the improvement of these families the teenage girls can have good social status, the marriage problem can also be solved and the women will have good respect from their husbands,

Objectives of the Target group       

• To train the poor SC & ST boys and girls in different trades

• To save the child laboreres

• To make these SC & ST boys and girls as earning members of the family and increasing the family monthly income.

• To solve the problem early marriages of the poor SC & ST girls by equipping them with a skill and making them earning members of the family.

• To make these boys and girls be respected by other members in the society, (they are usually looked down because they have dropped from the school)

• To avail the new opportunities created by the government proposal to tart industrialization in our area.

• To elevate the economic status of the families giving scope to the parents to educate their young children instead of sending them for child labour.

Expected Results

• With the Self employment fund from the banks and other sources the migration is stopped. People are able to be in the village and earn their livelihood.

• Children will be sent to school

• They are able to get employment opportunity throughout the year irrespective of season.

• Their income capacity will be raised.

• As group their awareness level in mutual understanding social transformation and group dynamism will improve.

• Through their employment and income their living standards will improve

• These girls and women after training in tailoring can earn independently and support the parents and families.

• To bring Smile on the faces of these target group

• A permanent house for these poor Scheduled caste

• Eradication of child labour

• Skill Development for the youth and showing job opportunity and earning income.

We have the projects planned: One of the most heinous crimes that the humanity is responsible to have committed to God and his nature is making the child as slave human selfishness, by sending them to work as child laborers. It is Unforgivable sin than no one can forgive as the act incidentally kills the entire person’s future. Child laborers are exposed to dangers and hazardous working conditions exploited to the core of starting from family to all the establishments. And they are paid very minimum for long and extensive working conditions. They are deprived of education, forced to shoulder the family responsibilities and burden in many cases far beyond their experience and age. They get subjected to physical, psychological and sexual abuse by everybody; they are not even spared by the family and kith and kin. Hence child labour rehabilitation will be taken up shortly.

We have planned for construction of Residential school for 200 children

The Staff:

• Director,

• one Cluster Coordinator,

• 5 Coordinators,

• 20 Animators,

• one accountant,

• one Driver

• House Keeper