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The Development Education Society (DEEDS) is an Indian Non-Governmental Organisation established in 1989. It is a non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian
Nonsectarian
Nonsectarian, in its most literal sense, refers to a lack of sectarianism. The term is also more narrowly used to describe secular private educational institutions or other organizations either not affiliated with or not restricted to a particular religious denomination though the organization...

 organisation which operates in the Ponnai
Ponnai
Ponnai is one of the Town in Katpadi Taluk in Vellore District in Tamil Nadu State . Ponnai is located 17.51 km distance from Town Sholinghur . Ponnai is 28.07 km far from its District Main City Vellore...

 area of Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu is one of the 28 states of India. Its capital and largest city is Chennai. Tamil Nadu lies in the southernmost part of the Indian Peninsula and is bordered by the union territory of Pondicherry, and the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh...

 in Southern India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. Its guiding commitment is to educate, and improve conditions for those who form the vulnerable sections of society. Programmes are delivered by a partnership between DEEDS, the local community
Community
The term community has two distinct meanings:*a group of interacting people, possibly living in close proximity, and often refers to a group that shares some common values, and is attributed with social cohesion within a shared geographical location, generally in social units larger than a household...

 and government agencies.

Educational improvement

Programmes include:
  • Early childhood
    Childhood
    Childhood is the age span ranging from birth to adolescence. In developmental psychology, childhood is divided up into the developmental stages of toddlerhood , early childhood , middle childhood , and adolescence .- Age ranges of childhood :The term childhood is non-specific and can imply a...

     education
  • Pre-school education
  • Non-formal education
  • Formal education
  • Distant education
  • Technical and vocational education
  • Adult education
  • Collegiate education
  • Quality of life through health
    Health
    Health is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain...

     improvement

Community health education

Community health
Community health
Community health, a field of public health, is a discipline that concerns itself with the study and betterment of the health characteristics of biological communities. While the term community can be broadly defined, community health tends to focus on geographic areas rather than people with shared...

 programmes include...
  • Environment and ecological
    Ecology
    Ecology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...

     promotion
  • Nutrition education cum services
  • Immunization
  • Reproductive and child health programme
  • Promotion of herbal
    Herbal
    AThe use of a or an depends on whether or not herbal is pronounced with a silent h. herbal is "a collection of descriptions of plants put together for medicinal purposes." Expressed more elaborately — it is a book containing the names and descriptions of plants, usually with information on their...

     garden and herbal medicine
    Herbalism
    Herbalism is a traditional medicinal or folk medicine practice based on the use of plants and plant extracts. Herbalism is also known as botanical medicine, medical herbalism, herbal medicine, herbology, herblore, and phytotherapy...

  • HIV/AIDS prevention programme
  • Alcoholic and de-addiction services
  • Coordination with Government
    Government
    Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...

     Primary Health Centres
  • Periodical medical
    Medicine
    Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

     check-ups and treatment
    Therapy
    This is a list of types of therapy .* Adventure therapy* Animal-assisted therapy* Aquatic therapy* Aromatherapy* Art and dementia* Art therapy* Authentic Movement* Behavioral therapy* Bibliotherapy* Buteyko Method* Chemotherapy...

     with referral services
  • Training for grass root health workers

Poverty alleviation activities

This programme is mainly focused on utilizing the available local resources as well as enhancing skills for managing resources through a sustainable livelihood approach.
  • Agro-based livelihood activities
  • Animal husbandry
    Animal husbandry
    Animal husbandry is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock.- History :Animal husbandry has been practiced for thousands of years, since the first domestication of animals....

     programme
  • Micro enterprises
  • Credit units – people's financial institutions
  • Entrepreneurship training
  • Cooperative business
    Business
    A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...

     undertaking
  • Promotion of self-help groups
  • Watershed management

Building the local organization

DEEDS aims to nurture and develop self-government principles among the deprived community, despite various barriers in the social system
Social structure
Social structure is a term used in the social sciences to refer to patterned social arrangements in society that are both emergent from and determinant of the actions of the individuals. The usage of the term "social structure" has changed over time and may reflect the various levels of analysis...

 such as caste
Caste
Caste is an elaborate and complex social system that combines elements of endogamy, occupation, culture, social class, tribal affiliation and political power. It should not be confused with race or social class, e.g. members of different castes in one society may belong to the same race, as in India...

, multi-linguistic, multi-religious communities etc... Through democratisation
Democratization
Democratization is the transition to a more democratic political regime. It may be the transition from an authoritarian regime to a full democracy, a transition from an authoritarian political system to a semi-democracy or transition from a semi-authoritarian political system to a democratic...

 and human rights
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...

, this can be promoted at the community level. Sensitisation
Sensitization
Sensitization is an example of non-associative learning in which the progressive amplification of a response follows repeated administrations of a stimulus. An everyday example of this mechanism is the repeated tonic stimulation of peripheral nerves that will occur if a person rubs his arm...

 and advocacy
Advocacy
Advocacy is a political process by an individual or a large group which normally aims to influence public-policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an...

on various developmental areas are given focus. To build a strong local organization DEEDS promotes the following local bodies:
  • Women's associations (sanghas)
  • Farmers' association
  • Village Development Coordination Committee
  • Youth association
  • Children's club
  • Credit and cooperative units
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