Education of Orphan Boys and girl children
BIRDS is started working since 1991 in the field of rural development among the poor and poorest, among the Dalits, Women, Children and Small and marginal farmers in the rural areas. We have started working on community mobilization, empowerment process among the dalits and women on several issues such as poverty, social discrimination and women rights and land issues. The focus was on the livelihood improvement among the poor families those who have lands as well as land less to improve the livelihood opportunities with in the villages to minimize the migration was the main target. While we are working on these issues, we have found huge number of children who are dropped our school and working as child labor and as bonded labor, some are destitute children left over by the family, due to sever migration, death of parents due to HIV are seen very much in the villages. Similarly the huge number of poor are effected with HIV+ and finally the AIDS, the results of the migration went by these poor communities those who have lands and landless are alarmingly increasing the diseases. People who are going out migration in search of money are returned with diseases not with money. These children who are out of school and working as child labor and destitute are given opportunity for education and to have childhood with proper care and protection under BIRDS. So BIRDS is proposing to increase and improve facilitates of the present boarding home for many children to have good shelter and food with good facilities and environment for the children to have education are the main purpose of this proposal.

This is not a regular donor program. It is internally funded and implemented in response to the immediate needs emerging from the area of operation. There is blind school in Nandyal. This was suddenly closed due to withdrawal of the German donor – CBM (Christopher Blind Mission). On the request of the Hostel Warden of the Blind School, BIRDS had to adopt two girls, for their food and school fees. 

P.Swarnalatha aged 9 years daughter of P.Shesha Reddy resident of Peraipally in Allagadda mandal in Kunool dist. She is deaf and dumb and unable to give her a better education in the general school and to join her in a special school for the education at Nadyal are unable to pay the school fees and boarding charges. They approached Navajeevan School for the Deaf for admission who also doesn’t have support to give free education. Parents of Swarnalatha then approached the local government officer who in turn directed them to the MDO, who has recommended approaching BIRDS for support of the child. BIRDS has responded positively and started to support for her special education and food charges on annual basis.

Destitute Pension Scheme (DPS)
Huge number of old age people in the rural areas and they are affected due to shortage of food, shelter and cloths. In case of the families who frequently migrate for search of work leave the old and children in the villages, exposing them to the wrath of hunger and sickness. Taking note of such occurrences in its operational area, BIRDS started the destitute pension scheme (monthly), to meet food expenditure, apart from expenses in emergencies. BIRDS has done a quick study to see how many of them need such kind of support. BIRDS found that the support of the government on old age pension is very limited and all of them are unable to access. 

As start up BIRDS has selected around 71 members in Rudravaram mandal who are very poor, aged, destitute, widows, physically challenged to give benefit of the DPS, during the reporting period.

Dr.Sussan Cooksy was coordinating this program, Right now; the expenses are met with internal sources. A pension of Rs. 200/­- per month per person is presently paid to these 71 people. In future, BIRDS is confident of raising funds to support more people, continuously.