Initiatives

RA VE LA RA Rural Development Trust is working on projects in four key focus areas:

Physically & Mentally disabled

Since its inception , the RAVELARA Rural Development Trust has worked to support the underprivileged in society and enrich their lives. Promoted by Sreelatha Geeni , a bussiness enterproner and a social worker, the Foundation began its work in Pitlam ,Nizamabad Ditrict ,planning to extend its activities to other districts of Andhra Pradesh.

Orphans and Poor Kids

Since its inception , the RA VE LA RA Rural Development Trust has worked to support the underprivileged in society and enrich their lives. Promoted by Sreelatha Geeni , a bussiness enterproner and a social worker, the Foundation began its work in Pitlam ,Nizamabad Ditrict ,planning to extend its activities to other districts of Andhra Pradesh.

Healthcare and Medical

Making quality healthcare affordable and accessible has been the objective of the Trust ever since its inception. The Trust has initiated several activities that benefit the rural and urban poor. Apart from organizing health camps and health awareness programmes, the Trust also distributes medicines to economically weaker sections of the society.


Focus Areas of the Trust in Health Care :
Medical Camp
Medical Awareness programme
Medial Aid for under privileged
Blood donation camp

Social rehabilitation and rural upliftment

Even after 60 years of Independence, villages in and around Pitlam continue to remain backward due to a combination of natural, social and economic tribulation. They include illiteracy, unemployment and lack of sanitation, water–borne diseases, malnutrition, alcoholism and scarce medical facilities among others.

RA VE LA RA Rural Developement Trust seeks to address the needs of societies most neglected. The problems are colossal. The Trust is lighting a candle instead of cursing the darkness. Its contribution to reduce these problems may amount to a drop in the ocean today. All the same, the ocean is richer by a drop.

Focus areas of the Trust in Social Rehabilitation & Rural Upliftment
-Helping people in Disaster (Cyclone/flooding, Tsunami, Earthquake etc)
-Aids Patients
-Street Children
-Mentally challenged
-Physically challenged
-Hearing Impaired
-Blind

Women Empowerment
While a lot is spoken of equal rights for women in India, the situational reality of the status of women in India, particularly in rural areas, is pathetic.

Gender disparity manifests itself in various forms, the most obvious being the trend of continuously declining female population rates in the last few decades. The underlying causes of gender inequality are related to social and economic factors. Consequently, the access for women, particularly those in the rural areas, to education and health among others is inadequate.

RA VE LA RA Rural Development Trust aims at a holistic approach to the development of women to enable them to realize their full potential and establish a dignified status for themselves in the society.


Focus areas of the Trust in Women Empowerment :
Financial Assistance for Women Self Help Groups (SHGs)
Self Employment
Education for women

Learning and Education

At a time when education has become the biggest differentiating factor, RA VE LA RA Rural Development Trust Charitable Trust offers an edge to deprived and rural students through its activities.
The following are the focus areas in Education:
Scholarships for underprivileged students
School for under privileged

Career Guidance and Rural Education

Increased awareness is needed for easier acceptance and to remove the stigma attached to seeking counselling or psychiatric help for children

More training should be given to school teachers to handle mental, emotional and behavioural problems in kids

More specialised counselling courses should be introduced

Parenting workshops should be organised at various levels to explain the needs of children

A healthy, open rapport system should be built between parents and schools

Regular students' workshops are needed for different age groups to give them better social, emotional and lifestyle skills

Officials guidelines are needed to make it mandatory for schools to conduct regular mental health workshops and medical check-ups for students

With current socio-technological changes and educational demands, Counseling is
becoming a major area of concern for in-school youths. The large number of students in
schools, limited number of trained teacher counselors, heavy work load, socio-economic
and technological changes all put pressure on the teachers, students, parents and society.
No wonder, there is frequent demand for counseling to help address some of these
problems.
Whereas Guidance and counseling in Secondary schools should help the students: plan
and prepare for their work roles after high school, with personal growth and
development, plan and prepare for postsecondary schooling, and with their academic
achievement in high school. Most Kenyan students need much more than these four
major areas. They require direction, understanding, appreciation and modeling for them
to get focused in their work.

Human growth and development
Personality and grooming - hygiene
Human sexuality
Adolescence and early pregnancy
Drug and substance abuse
HIV /AIDS, STIs
Relationships
Study skills
Goal setting
Career development
Academic group discussions
Time, Stress and disaster management
Self esteem
Self motivation and personal hygiene
Teamwork

Public Awareness

Public awareness among climate changes:
-The development and implementation of educational and public awareness programmes on climate change and its effects;
- Public access to information on climate change and its effects;
- Adopting a participatory process for addressing climate change and its effects. Similar approach should also be adopted in developing adequate responses to climate change and its effects; and
- Organizing and providing to scientific, technical and managerial personnel for climate change mitigation

Public awareness among health care:
-Bacteriological contamination of water continues to occur in the distribution system and often surface water is used without treatment or disinfecting facilities.Moreover the high concentration of soluble organic matter encourages the rapid growth of bacteria.
-Basic sanitation is poor. Sanitary conditions are dismal in squatter areas, many of which have no hygienic means of waste disposal. New housing schemes, factories, commercial institutions and industries have been developed without complying with the existing land development laws. In fact, individual septic tanks and pit latrines are often the only means of sewage disposal and are frequently not constructed at the recommended distance from the water supply.
-Food contamination also constitutes an important health risk. Despite Government regulations and food inspection programmes, the chemical contamination of food continues to occur. Enforcement mechanisms are weak.

Art and culture

Keeping in mind, the economic status of children and their poor access to water and sanitation, special attention is paid to ensuring their health and hygiene. Alongside human values such as love, compassion, service and care for the environment are also inculcated in them. The children are also taught self-development skills and training .