We cover primitive Tribes of AnanthagiriMandal of Visakhapatnam district.

We cover 86 villages of Ananthagiri Mandal around population of 9992 and around 1936 families.

ARDAR has planned to construct 12 additional school buildings in the area. The construction has been planned in two clusters and we are working at the first cluster till the last year. Now the government also involved in constructing schools. Now we have permissions for all the schools. Two schools construction is completed at Bheempole and B.Kothavalasa, four schools permission is sanctioned. The construction will start soon.

We are planning to cover 1000 school drop-out in 12 bridge schools. Bridge schools are started in a motive to provide basic education to the dropout children in the village and to mainstream them in the school. At present, we are running 9 bridge schools in 9 villages with strength of 229 children. ARDAR constructed shelter, appointed volunteer, supplied Nutrition Food and study materials. Along with quality education, games also provided to the children which increase the school regularity and decreased the dropout’s ratio.

Adult education classes are regularly conducted in 6 villages. We have a plan to cover 1300 adults and women in these centres. Volunteers are taking good interest in motivating the villagers and bringing them regularly to the centres. Centre is providing basic education to the adults and importantly women of the micro credit. In the evening time the adults are learning alphabets, words, signatures, village problems identification, solutions, about marketing, etc. Till date 348 adults are learning in 9 centres.

ARDAR also is implementing microcredit to develop living standards of the tribes. 872 women are benefitted in this program. We have a plan to cover 1000 mother under micro credit programme. We are discussing with them about their seasonal business and their planning. They are using loans for buying cattle like goats, sheep, cows and etc. we given training to the women for record maintenance. 28 types of different trades are started by tribal women in this area. A total of Rs.40,11,000/- amount is disbursed in this programme.

We are linking the focus group to NREGS Activity by providing needful tools. We have planned to support 600 tribes with equipment and link them to NREGS. In total 578 persons (254 male and 324 female) are benefited through NREGS support. We provided shovels, crowbars and other tools needed for land work. All the 578 persons who are benefited are getting work in this program. They earn Rs. 100 to 150/- per day for 100 days this year.

Tribal depend on land and water. They are the prime source of their income. But, they lack the skills in development and management of land and water. This gives them less production and creates an economic scarcity in their lives. We have a plan to cover 25 villages under this programme. We organised 26 awareness meetings on Land and water Development, Crop pattern seeds and crop Development, Promotion of Non-timber Forest Produce. We focused on different methods of using organic manure for more fertility of the land. They could assess the value of these methods for creating sustainable future.

We have a plan to cover 6 villages under plantation programme. We have planted Mango in 10.12 hectares and Teak in 6.31 hectares. 2 villages Kodhamaguda and Ramachandhrapuram have been benefited in the plantation program. This year they have also done inter crop in these fields. They have to do inter cropping for 3 to 4 years. This is good for the plants and for their food needs.

Drinking water is a major problem in all the tribal villages. We have a plan to construct 12 new water points, renovate 12 defunct water structures to be build under this programme. We have provided drinking water in 12 villages by renovating the defunct water structures. The villagers are all happy to have water in the village. We are also motivating the villagers about drinking water to make safer for drinking like boiling, filtering, chlorination, leaning water links besides and surroundings regularly.

We have planned to construct 18 washing platforms in the villages to maintain the sanitation and hygiene levels, 24 awareness meetings will be organised to create awareness on hygiene and sanitation, 15 village cleaning camps will be organised and 4 community cattle sheds will be constructed on demonstration basis. Till date 4 washing platforms have been constructed, 18 awareness meetings and 4 cleaning camps are organised.

We have planned to cover 12 villages under health activities. We have a plan to organise 36 health awareness meetings, 24 Health Camps and 12 School health camps and 750 mosquito nets will be provided to women who are pregnant and with young babies. Our plan is

We have conducted 28 health awareness meetings in which we discussed on various health issues and focused on immunization and nutrition, Special attention for pregnant women, mothers & adolescent girls. We also organized 3 school health camps for children. We have distributed 320 mosquito nets to protect from mosquitoes and avoid incidences of Malaria.

We have organised 8 health camps during this year in 8 villages. 722 patients are treated during these camps. We have also made liaisioning with government health department and referred cases of Malaria and treated. We have developed good rapport with Government health department and referred cases of Malaria, Gaiters, T.B., Diabetes, Hypertension, Malignancy to them. We have conducted blood testing for Malaria. In the camps 61 Positive Malaria Cases are identified and given medicine for Malaria course to patients. We cover the precautions methods of Malaria and other diseases during the sessions at health camps.

We organised 8 HIV awareness meetings and 4 HIV testing camps and found 2 +ve cases. We disseminated proper information to reduce the stigma. We informed about the modes of transmission of HIV, prevention methods and government services in this regard. We organised 4 trainings for youth. We have developed rapport with the government department for further support and collaboration. We are sensitizing the people for voluntary testing and also for better and safe practices.

14 children (9 boys and 5 girls) with different disabilities are motivated and admitted at our Campus Challenge at Poosapatirega. These children are provided with basic health care and needful support. We have identified 86 children for outreach services.