CAFED has been working in 130 hamlets of 18 Revenue villages and has 138 Women Self-Help Groups. The program aims to conduct regular monthly meetings, and linkage to the banks, prompting them to get loans from the banks, monitor them to regular repayment of the loans and make aware them of their rights.
CAFED had initiated that the children learn their rights and make them be self-reliant. There are 60 children in parliament in the villages. This aims that children will be the instruments for the regular attendance of the teachers in their school, clean and green at schools, promotion of vegetable gardens, and cultivating the attitude of learning with experience.
This initiation is for the tribal women farmers who were struggling for a better yield of paddy in their field. This is to encourage them to cope in difficult circumstances when there is a lack of rain or no proper water facilities for cultivation. 50 farmers have come forward to go for new intervention and the process is on track.
This is to aim that every tribal woman gets the work for food that took 100 days of work in the year. It gives economic stability to families in the absence of seasonal cultivation. The animators were the instruments in getting Job Cards for these women. 1560 job cards were given with the intervention of the animators and lobby with the government officials.
The need in this area had demanded the service for the IDPs. The tribal people used to come to Andhra Pradesh due to fear and threats from the Government and other organizations in Chattisgarh. There are 28 hamlets. CAFED had served these people in getting job cards, ID cards, ration cards and land for cultivation.
CAFED had been working with this program for 4 years. This aims to lobby and advocate with Government officials to provide land and Pattahs for tribal people who don’t have land and Paths. Two animators were trained on basic legal services to making aware the tribal people get legal entities for the land, MNREGA, Ration cards, ID cards, RTI and others.
Skill training was given to 200 girl children on embroidery, making greeting cards, stitching fashionable clothes, artificial flower making and interior decoration in Vijayawada by Holy Cross Sisters.
Human rights education was rendered to the VIII to X class children in Ravulapalam, East Godavari District, by Salesian Fathers
English coaching was given to the IX and X class children at Vijayawada arranged by the diocese of Vijayawada.
Training on Folklore was organized at Mulakalapalli by Good Shepherd Sisters for the IX class children.
There are 10 animators and 2 coordinators in the fieldwork.
Twice a month a follow-up training programme is conducted for the animators and the teachers during which a meeting review of the previous month and the planning for the next month are also done. One meeting is held at the Mandal level and the other in the centre.
Training programmes on government schemes and legal aid training programmes were conducted. This training enabled them to know the ways and means to help the tribes to obtain land documents from the government, ration cards, ID cards, etc.
Though this acting came into effect in 2005, it is not known to the tribal people. The Government programs allotted to the tribal people are not reaching them directly. The fruits of the Government Programs are eaten up by middlemen. In this context, the act of the Right to information is found as a weapon to solve problems. The animators are taking this weapon to the villages. The knowledge of this Act went into 15 villages out of 20 villages till now to create awareness; they met 30 SHG groups and spoke on the use of the Act. They also met PRI leaders and Youth in 15 villages and gave input sessions to make use of this Act to solve land Issues.
PLW and animators went to 125 villages and identified 1200 aged people and shared information on the available scheme. They helped these aged people in applying for pensions to the local Government officials (Mandal Development Officers).
Animators PLWs went to 110 villages and identified 500 widows and shared information on the available scheme. They helped these widows in applying pensions to the local Government officials (Mandal Development Officers). Issuing the pensions is in process
CAFED is enabling itself by having a network with other NGOs for sharing knowledge and experience on different issues like women's rights, tribal rights, Child rights and land rights
Bro. K. Lourdu Raju SHJ – Superior and Director
Bro. Hari Babu SHJ – Procurator of the community
English medium primary School was established in the year 2012 for the income generation of the cafed at venkatapuram. We have 60 children were studying in the school still it is under development process.
The children from the tribal communities because of their economic background drop out of school and go for daily labour work. CAFED has initiated residential bridge camps for them. So far CAFED has given education to the 1570 dropout children and mainstreamed them.