About
PIRD
People's
Institute of Rural Development (PIRD) is a non profit
organization
started on 15th August 1983, to initiate a process of
comprehensive development of rural people, especially poor,
marginalized and landless. Drawing strength from Mahatma
Gandhi’s call - ‘March to villages’ - the
organization began its work in Ahmedpur, district Latur from
Marathwada region. During last twenty years the scope of
work is widened to include 6 Talukas from Latur, Osmanabad
and Parbhani districts, where we have direct contact and
intervention activities. The organization is also recognized
as one of the leading organizations in the Marathwada
region.
To many, the word development is synonymous with material
and physical progress. To us, development has to have a
human face. Many consider no wrong when the fruits of
development reach to only a handful of people. But we get
concerned with the course of development, which provides no
work guarantee for adults on the one hand and lets child
labour to flourish on the other hand, as it’s cheap and
easily exploitable. It is to demonstrate our concern towards
social discrimination that we decided to translate it into
action.
Mobilization and organization of deprived sections in the
society, particularly women, children, agricultural
laborers, has remained PIRD’s core strategy to address their
issues and to uphold their rights. Awareness led to
mobilization and it further led to action. In this process
PIRD initiated constructive activities without ever
expelling its confirmative measures. It worked on immediate
strategies, thinking side by side upon long-term solutions
for the problems. The conscious understanding of root causes
of social issues and interrelation between them enabled the
organization to start series of developmental programs and
interventions. The primary motivation, however, throughout
remained the same - commitment to rural people…
FUTURE PLANS
…
In its journey for over two decades, PIRD has been able to
initiate several developmental programmed. Among them are
sustained campaigns and activities to draw attention towards
deserving issues of working children and women. Employment
forms a critical issue with regards to rural development. We
worked towards demanding employment as well as seeking
alternative ways of creating employment opportunities for
rural people, with focus on landless and small landholders.
We also participated in relief and rehabilitation work of
earthquake afflicted with a purpose to ensure just and
appropriate measures in disaster management. In coming
years, we would take up these and such developmental issues,
with same vigor and commitment.
We
also perceive the need to understand emerging issues and get
ourselves equipped with innovative strategies to address
them. Some of future projects include:
REHABILITATION CENTER for CHILD LABORERS
In
order to provide vocational guidance along with educational
inputs to children rescued from labor, PIRD intends to set
up a rehabilitation center. It is our experience that not
all the children rescued from labour, especially those above
9 years, easily get integrated in school education pattern.
If they are again out of school, they fall in trap of
imposed labor. In order to break this vicious circle and to
make education more accessible to these children, we feel
the need to combine education skills with vocational
training and thus to ensure them a reasonable employment
opportunity in future, without losing upon education.
RURAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING CENTER
With a purpose to equip rural volunteers and people with
perspective, skills, technical knowledge essential to
initiate effective developmental activities, we intend to
set up a multipurpose training center. With our two-decades
experience of working with rural people, we have developed
reasonable understanding to address the need of training
support. The center will provide need-based training inputs
to volunteers, people and women as well as make available
information and knowledge related to rural development.
Mission
Board Of Directors
Operational Areas
Annual Progress Report
Audit Report
Registration Certificate Of Organization
Memo. of Assoc. Rules -
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