Balaji-Balavikas
- Initiated in the year 1984, the project is aimed to provide services in the areas of Health, Education, Livelihood, and Child Protection to the target with the following objectives:-
- To support the deprived, excluded and vulnerable children to come out of their deprivation, vulnerability, and exclusion.
- To initiate age-appropriate interventions for the well-being of children of different age groups with thematic approaches.
- To cooperate and collaborate with the other developmental agencies and departments in order to reach the gaps in the existing child-related development programs.
- To enable the poor and marginalized families to cope with emergencies by giving appropriate inputs and interventions.
- To enable the capacities of the community-based organizations (CBOs) in order to promote the sustainability of the project interventions.
- To initiate the bottom of planning by promoting appropriate capacities and capabilities of the local communities.
- At present, the project provides services for more than 3,500 children from around 40 villages in 12-gram panchayats of Renigunta Mandal in the Chittoor District of Andhra Pradesh. So far around 32,833 children and the community were benefited from the project.
- A similar Project has been initiated in Chennai in the year 2016 for extending the services covering around 27,500 children and communities from 17 areas spread in 4 districts of Tamilnadu.
