PRESENTATION ON

INDIA RURAL

DEVELOPMENT FUND

RDF began as a family initiative. It was conceived by several members of the Errabelli (or Erraballi) family, descendants of those who had amassed considerable wealth and build an imposing 40-room mansion in Kalleda village, Warangal District, Andhra Pradesh. In 1996 the NGO was registered, with a board of directors that included a range of people accomplished in government, education and business. The current secretary of RDF is Vinita Rao of Hyderabad.

History

 Kalleda School Launched - July 1996

For a village of around 3000 people in Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh the literacy rate and education level in this village is much to be desired. Our affiliated local NGO, Rural Development Foundation, has taken the initiative to start a primary and secondary school now has enrolled over six hundred students.The school provides uniforms to remove caste and class barriers, as well as midday meals. This village is from an area that is considered to be backward by Indian standards. The school which began with Kindergarten (KG), Grade 1, and Grade 2, has now reached to Grade 10.Kalleda village backgroundPopulation: 2000;Warangal district (in A.P. state)literacy % 47.41

In 1996 a few Indian Americans living in the United States of America,  became the change agents to translate the dream of giving back to the country of their birth.  They realized that poverty is the worst malady and that the remedy was education, healthcare and social development. They set out to refine, define and foster a prosperous rural India, along with the financial support of many successful Indian 's in the US.  Today, India Rural Development Fund projects have helped many poor rural families in India

About India Rural DevelopmentFund

Uses

i)To Set up educational institutation at village levels for the benefits of the public.

ii)To educate the girls for self employment and to inform then about their rights and provide such girls student free nursing ducation primary medical treatment to the distrees people.

iii) formation  self help group for development of backward and poor people.

iv)Easteblising ,maintaining and granting aid to old mens lodgs with Indian traditional concepts

Educational work

The same year that RDF was founded it opened the Kalleda Rural School in the Errabelli family mansion. By 2003 KRS had grown to its full size of 560 students in grades from kindergarten through grade 10. The school reserves many seats for Scheduled Caste and Tribal children, and approximately half of its seats for girls. It provides a nutritious lunch to all students, featuring vegetables grown on the school’s mostly organic farm with help from the students.

Since then, RDF has started four other rural schools. In 2007 it opened the Vanitha Achutha Pai junior college (grades 11-12) in a newly built campus near to the original Kalleda Rural School. The junior college hosts the Village India Program every summer, run in collaboration with Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA. The Village India Program brings Washington University students to teach English-medium mini courses in a variety of subjet

DevelopmentO v e r i t s fi r s t d e c a d e o f o p e r a t i o n , R D F h a s d e v e l o p e d

a p h i l o s o p h y o f d e v e l o p m e n t w i t h t h r e e b a s i c c o m p o n e n t s .

First and most obvious is the emphasis on high-quality affordable education for rural children. With its booming information economy, India is a land where a good education is often a ticket out of poverty, but it is also a land with extraordinary educational stratification: students with opportunity and means can get an excellent education, It also provides scholarship aid to very poor children

   Second is extra-curricular support for students. Children from poor

rural backgrounds often lack the confidence, knowledge, connections, and family support needed to move into good careers. 

  Third is keeping graduates connected to their home areas. Helping

rural kids graduate and move to middle class careers in the city only depletes rural resources unless the graduates remain closely involved with their home communities

 

VISION,MISSION,GOAL

Vision: To promote education as a vehicle for rural developmentMission: To make a lifelong difference to the lives of rural underprivileged girls and boys through holistic educationGOAL: To educate, engage and empower rural girls and boys

RDF schools strive to create India’s future leaders, people who respect their rich, cultural heritage but are also ready to lead their community into the 21st century

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