what we do?

At Mother Therisa Seva Development Society we try to address the needs of the people at the grassroots level. We believe in directly getting involved with the society and we believe that this is the only way one can effectively address the needs of the people and bring about long term and sustainable changes in their lives. We understand the needs of people coming from all walks of life including poor, middle class and rural families and have been working hard to address their physical, intellectual and spiritual needs.

The past years, since we came into existence, under the guidance of an Enlightened Master we have been involved in social services that encompass a wide range of activities across the field of children's education, medical diagnosis and treatment for the poor and downtrodden, self development education for the youth, free food distribution, free medical dispensary, old age homes, life counseling, free meditation camps, to name a few. We offer holistic systems of medicine that have been the treasures of wisdom and 5000 years of research in the inner science. We also strive to preserve the ancient sculptures and sacred art forms by supporting and encouraging the artisans who have years of experience with techniques which have been passed down from generation to generation.

Mother Therisa Seva Development Society functions on a grass-roots level, relying on community involvement and the support of innumerable volunteers and donors. Through this website, we invite you to learn more about us and join us in our efforts to serve the various needs of the needy in India.

Mother Therisa Seva Development Society’s Intervention on Health.

The focus of the programme is to improve the health of the community especially pregnant women, adolescent girls and children up to the age of 3 by making health a public issue which people demand as their right.
Specifically, the action seeks to decrease maternal and infant mortality, stop child marriages and improve the health and nutrition status of children under-3. It also seeks to prepare local institutions such as the Gram Panchayats, Child Rights Protection Forums, girl youth committees and health committees to take up health issues and strengthen the government health system in order that all women get proper ante-natal care and have institutional and safe deliveries, universal immunisation and prevention of malnourishment for children in the 0-3 age group is ensured, child marriages are prevented and the health of adolescent girls is improved, adolescent girls in the age group of 12 to 18 years are empowered. In addition the health delivery system of the government is strengthened through community participation and ownership in order to improve the community’s access to the health system and processes for systematic review of health programmes at the mandal and district level are established in order to improve the efficiency of the health department.

MEDICAL & HEALTH AWARENESS CAMPS:

a) people started showing keen interest in personal hygiene.

b) The dwellers of the slums and tribal areas started maintaining clean ambience.

c) The women are found with full confidence and taking an active role in building up healthy society.

d) The people, particularly the parents halted their running behind the self styled doctors and started realizing the conditions, keeping themselves away from superstitions and blind traditional beliefs etc.,

These changes intensified the Trust’s activities – to go ahead.

The Trust to its very pride, with the help of RICH organized a ‘Free Eye Surgery Camp’ at Kalichedu and a team of specialists in Ophthalmology joined in this task, keeping their busy schedule away. Nearly 300 operations were conducted with no stone upturning. The Trust is highly greatful to those surgeons, who had rendered efficient services and to the RICH. Through this camp which was conducted on 26/07/03, almost 1500 people were benefited (this number is inclusive the operated).

EARLY INTERVENTION OF MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN:

This is exclusively to find out the mentally retarded children, who are unnoticed, with the help of a specialist panel of Doctors and imparting them, the required treatment which includes the therapies. At the same time the Trust decided to give Home Based Training for any adult of the concerned family. Like many activities, this E I H B T is also a perinious process of the Trust. In this course of action, the Trust determined to run a special school(exclusively for the mentally retarded children). This determination came in the form of “ SAMRAKSHANA” – a school for mentally retarded children with efficient and qualified staff.

( It should be borne in the mind that all the activities of the Trust are no cost and are of follow up actions)

The Trust is marching ahead by removing the false beliefs among the unlettered with its established team (exclusively for this EI HBT). This evoked a very good response. So far, the Trust could campaign in this regard in Mandals of Sydapuram, Podalakur, Sullurpet, Doravarisataram etc.

CAPACITY BUILDING OF SHGs:

Our well wishers are aware of the Self Help Groups among the female folk is a part of women empowerment, in every village in the district, and the functioning of these groups is up to the mark ; undoubtedly the fruitful results in this activity is mirror image of the Trust’s commitment towards the women.

HELPLINE SERVICES:

This is yet another hectic task that the trust hugged. Ever since the inception of the Trust in 1998, the Trust never went off the track and always stood in forefront for the cause of humanity. This activity that was launched in Nellore on 19th of July is certainly going to become yet another milestone.

The very purpose behind these services is to make available of the medical treatment at the very threshold of the tormented in less time – in other words, a ready mobile hospital. These services are made available by the Trust with the sponsorship of RICH hospitals, Pogathota, Nellore, round the clock,(i.e 24x365). These services are being extended in all the directions of the district and made readily available with all medical and paramedical facilities. By a mere call, one can get these facilities at free of cost, swiftly.

HEALTH CARE FOR CHILDREN:

It must be borne in the mind that all the services of the Trust

are AT NO COST AND RETRIEVAL and the trust never feels this as a charity,

but by the very way of repaying some of the DEBT IT owes to the society.

THAMA SOMA JYOTHIRGAMAYA

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT:

“HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A WOMEN SCORNED “ -SHAKESPEARE

Though the Vedas (or any scripture) insist that the women folk must be respected and must be looked with total faithfulness in all the fields ; but the actual living picture is entirely different. A day is not completed without the news of physically or mentally tortured woman. In particularly, if turn our lens on the rural side we find a very pathetic, soul-stirring situation of women. The torture or the suffering of a woman by an inabretated male is still worse. The factors which ever they might be ; the ultimate sufferer is the woman.

As it was planned in the previous year, an action plan, by and large the Trust took a firm decision in implementing the programmes exclusively to empower the women.

Realizing the above cited situation the chairperson, giving priority to personal (individual) health and hygiene insisted the female and made them to realize the very fact of erecting themselves firm and forever.

Mr.Shivashankar Reddy, the chairperson of the Trust, once again proved her ability in inducing the minds of the women of the above said areas with the ways and means in keeping good ambience and imparted the importance of thrift on a par with providing vocational training.

To achieve the aim, the Trust selected an erudited team to impart vocational training to the said women folk. The team, is now behind them giving the training in candle making, tailoring, embroidery work etc.

After repeated counsellings by the chairperson, right from the month of March ’02; the said women folk inculcated the required qualities.

To enhance this process the Trust, organized several camps through out the district and established Self Help Groups in each and every village. The duty of these financial groups is to concentrate on the better management of the income.

A striking performance of the Trust is in providing the loans to the poor women apart from RMK and CAPART.

Now, one can find easily the faces of the above cited women folk with charm and self-confidence.

Now, any one can witness the progress very easily. The only thing one should do is to await for the Trust, headed by the Chairperson to come in any village ; no sooner do they step down, we find the jostling of women who wanted to be with the chairperson. Such was the hob-nobbling nature of the Chairperson.

VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT:

It is a known fact that 75% of population lives in rural areas i.e in the villages. At the same time the chief occupation is the Agriculture. And our Agriculture is nothing but a gambling with the monsoon. And most of the lives of these villages, on this day is in between Scylla and Charibdis. Adding fuel to fire, the percentage of literacy is considerably low. Illiteracy promote ignorance in return it results in unhealthy society.

Hence, the Trust is strongly determined to take-up the issue on war foot basis. The Trust along with the medical experts of RICH had organized several health awareness camps while distributing the prescribed medicines at free of cost throughout the district. On count, perhaps it may exceed 4000 in number.

On the other hand, the Trust proposed to impart training to the educated of the said villages, in Health Awareness and install them as Health Workers in the rural areas, inspite of the scheduled camps, this year. The Trust, also concentrated on elimination of illiteracy. Presently a few mandals are selected for this Programme. These mandals are Indukurpet, Kalichedu, Vidavalur, Allur etc.

This activity, enhanced the glory as well as the responsibility of the Trust. This Trust strongly believes that, unless the villages are strengthened, the Nation can not be strengthened, in all fronts.

In the case of the village Kalichedu, the established Health Care Centre (in 2001), the Trust took further steps to enhance the services by adding few more sophisticated equipments, with the help of RICH hospitals. So that, the surrounding villages too, may avail free and immediate medical services.

Apart from these, the Trust appointed four teams on mobile with necessary kits, and scheduled the camps through out the year, with all nurture.

VACCINATION:

It is an inclination of the Trust’s commitment and prestige. As it was already reported that the Trust, while purchasing the vaccines for JE, Measles, Jaundice from the Government of Andhra Pradesh, started administering them, ever since 27/8/2000.

The same programme has been extended during this year also.

PAEDIATRIC SUPER SPECIALITY CAMPS:

This camp involved in total health check ups and the follow-up treatment.

Like wise, the Trust also conducted “super speciality clinic in Pulmonology”, obviously with the with the help of RICH, in the month of February. One should make a note that the availability of the specialists in the said branch, is absent, in Nadyala.

The Trust will be failing its duties if it does not extend its unfeigned thanks to the RICH and the specialists, for the cooperation and in rendering the heart out services on par with it.

Train-up a child

In the way he/she should go

When he is old

He should not depart from it

HIGH-WAY AMBULANCE:

Shook by the soul-stirring accidents and the pathetic situation of the victims, the Trust decided to provide an ambulance in such cases.