During the past 24 years, RDWS had been venturing into multifarious activities for the amelioration of the conditions of the disadvantaged population of Vizianagaram District. The Major sectors and the interventions are :

  • Empathy with the poor in fostering social justice & equity
  • Recognition of the potentiality of the community without any bias on caste, creed, sex or religion
  • Ensuring Child friendly and child rights envirnment
  • Gender sensitivity
  • Integrity and Transparency
  • Ecological sensitivity
  • People centered and Sustainable
  • Right-based: Adopting human rights perception in all aspects
  • Participatory: Implementing participatory process in all steps
  • Networking and alliance building
  • Collective appraisal and analysis of the problems and issues to find the structural causes
  • Participatory and comprehensive planning process
  • Revitalizing / generating alternative knowledge systems and skills
  • Mobilisation of the local resources and reducing the external dependency
  • Collective efforts through peoples organisations at different levels
  • Building staff capacities and perspectives through centralized training programmes & exposure
  • Information and communication by documenting and sharing with the community
  • Networking and alliance building for effective governance


Towards breaking the circle of poverty in the lives of people lives of people lives of people