Milieu of the NEED

National Environment & EducationDevelopment" NEED (Means Community welfareorganization) is a well known organization in the Vizianagaram District ofAndhra Pradesh, India. It is a symbol of Environmental Protection, Developmentof the Education, compassionate response to the terrible living conditions ofthe disadvantaged population of Vizianagaram District., in the absence of basicservices of qualitative education and health care, adequate employment and foodsecurity, effective governance and empowerment, resulting into the low social,economic and political status. Theorganization is involved in various socio-economic development programmes suchas Child Labour Rehabilitation, Eye Care Services, Income GeneratingProgrammes, Promotion of Self Help Groups and other Community basedorganizations, People's Institutions, Savings and Credit, Community BasedRehabilitation of the Differently Abled, Safe Drinking Water, Health andSanitation, Agriculture, Livelihoods, Policy Advocacy on Child Rights, ChildSponsorship, Non-Formal and Supplementary Education such as Non-ResidentialBridge schools and Bridge Schools andInclusive Education, HIV/AIDS, Disability Activities ,Skill Development etc., NEED is a non-profit, voluntary development organization established in1992 under the leadership of Mr. P.Venugopala Rao, a committed social worker ofrepute. Its target community is constituted of Tribal, Dalits and marginalized population ofSalur, Pachipenta, Makkuva, Ramabhadrapuram and some other mandals of VizianagaramDistrict.

OBJECTIVES

• The organization of the universal brotherhood of mankind and concern and love for the underprivileged and down trodden. In furtherance of this object the center will organize, establish, consolidate, maintain, support and encourage all charitable and uplifting activities of a comprehensive nature is any field of human enterprises, more particularly in the fields of human enterprises, agriculture, education, health, animal husbandry, protect and handicap people, prohibited to the child labour, assistance to the self employment schemes, see the welfare of the query labor, protect the environmental services housing and cottage industries etc., with an emphasis on environmental balance.
• Children’s, women’s welfare and irrigation development aspects and up lift the handicapped peoples.
• To support Deprived hill area tribal’s development
• To organize Workshops on HIV/AIDS, TB and other communicable and non communicable diseases
• To create qualitative and quantities changes in the socio-economic life of the target community, especially women and children.
• To protect and promote human rights especially that of women and children.
• To provide livelihood opportunities for the fulfillment of basic needs such as food, shelter, health and education to all.
• To create leadership among the tribal and rural mass to lead their own communities
• To support alliance building, lobby and policy advocacy.
• To take pleasure in sound and sustainable management of environment and forest
• To work on Disaster Management, Climate Change
• To ensure quality education and health care for all the children who are socially and economically disadvantaged, through the Government and Non-Governmental supporting programs.
• To give training on Skill Development to Youth and Unemployed people.