Sri Somepally Somaiah Tribal Aid & Development

INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT OF CHENCHUS

CHENCHUS
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literacy rate is a meager 7-10% Prone to diseases : 79% Effected by TB : 4% Infant mortality rate: 17%. Estd: 18th NOv 1999.

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Somepalli Somaiah Tribal aid & research Project Bhakta kannappa Gurukulam Vocational Training Sanghamitra Mobile Dispensary Project Gunampally Narayanamma Sevabharathi Hospital

SOMEPALLI SOMAIAH TRIBAL AID & RESEARCH PROJECT

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To Study and provide assistance to chenchus Develop models of sustainable development Create Awareness Skill development Awareness Camps 2001, Eight (8) awareness camps in kurnool dist, in 36 gudems, 177 chenchus participated, with CAPART.

BHAKTA KANNAPPA GURUKULAM

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Estd: Srisailam on 18-11-1999, enrolling 20 boys from 8 chenchu gudems. 2000-01; 2001-02 Academic years @ Srisailam Shifted to Gokavaram: 14th Dec 2002 The Gurukulam acts as a spring board Provide traditional & mainstream Education Preserve Chenchu culture Primary Education

VOCATIONAL TRAINING
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Provide Marketable skills Skill improvement & Business Carpentry, Electrician long term courses and short term activities like Book Binding; Motor Rewinding, Archery Children did the wiring to the new building

SANGHAMITRA MOBILE DISPENSARY PROJECT

Inaugurated: 09-12-2003 Distribution of nutritious food: 3 kgs of Rice, 1.5 kgs of jowar, 0.5 kgs of dal 14 eggs per week IDRF Supported: 4th of March 2007 till date No Of Visits: 3,574 Cases treated: 38, 326 minimum (3) visits to each gudem in a month, covering in total (32) chenchu Goodas

TB Antinatal Anemia Other cases

162 414 1234 36,516

SANGHAMITRA MOBILE DISPENSARY PROJECT

GUNAMPALLY NARAYANAMMA SEVABHARATHI HOSPITAL

Serving The Chenchus 10 Bedded Hospital Anti-TB drive Mar 2005: regular TB checkups, camps, treatment initiatives With District TB control society Distribution of Nutritious Food 2005-06 and 06-07

SUPPORT

Gurukulam: Rs 60,000 p.m. Clothing, acadamic and others: Rs 20,000 /- p.m. Voccational training: Rs 30,000 /p.m. Adopt a Chenchu Boy: Rs 15,000/p.a. Mobile Dispensary: Rs. 50,000/p.m. Medical Camp: Rs. 10,000/-

CONTACT

Somepally Somaiah Tribal Aid & Research Center Sevabharathi Hospital, Gokavaram (Post), Kothapally Mandal, Kurnool 518422. Ph No: 08517 242106 http://bhaktakannappagurukulam.blogspot. com/ www.sevabharathi.org

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