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Chaithanya Educational and Rural Development Society - CERDS
Chaithanya Educational and Rural Development Society (CERDS) works with men and women and children to help them identify and resolve their own problems. CERDS approach assists whole communities develop the capacity to overcome the affects of poverty and create a new future. CERDS believe that when the poor themselves are the initiators in resolving the problems of poverty. Disadvantaged social groups such as scheduled tribes, scheduled castes, fishermen and weavers emerged as the main target population for CERDS. In all these target groups the poorest of the poor, such as the artisans, agricultural laborers, small and marginal farmers, migratory workers and bonded laborers became a natural option for CERDS' programme intervention. The designing of programmes has been with focus on the most vulnerable category of society i.e. women, children and farmers. At operational level, more vulnerable group-based movements also emerged, including a village leadership movement; women's movement, a child care movement, save water and safe water and sustainable farming movements. The pace and intensity of these movements has varied, due to the fact that they have emerged at different points in time, in relation to micro interventions. Over the years, CERDS has become increasingly sensitive to the vulnerable target groups, particularly the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. The organisation has been making strong efforts to study these groups, in hopes of enabling them to improve their state of poverty.
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