Cheyutha Project

Help spread the divine gifts of health and life,
by donating to the needy patients going under the knife!

Cheyutha program by Spandana is to concentrate on health, nutrition, general care and rehabilitation for disadvantaged groups including rural population, orphans, senior citizens, the homeless and the physically and mentally handicapped. The overriding objective of Spandana is to provide better health conditions, create awareness on health & diseases and provide medicines where required in Andhra Pradesh. In this program, Spandana involves in the following activities

Health Camps: Organizing health camps in the rural villages (at schools & main village community centers), to treat those patients who are unable to travel. Associate with medical and pharmaceutical companies in local areas to provide their support in terms of supplying medicines and medical equipments at reduced cost.

Mobile Hospital: Lots of villages are far from the reach of the good hospitals. Even if they are ill, they do not show to the doctor due to socio-economic back-ground. The local Public health Centers (PHC) do not really visit the rural villages to treat the patients. The Mobile Hospital will have basic minimum equipment and trained nurse who can visit the villages once in 2 weeks and diagnose the illness and suggest for treatment, inform the local PHC to take the necessary steps in treating the patients. Some cases, help the patients for necessary financial support for the treatment.

Training Local Women as Health Promoters: Self supportability is generally better solution than increasing the dependencies. Spandana would like to work towards training educated house-wives in the village to make them, Community Health Promoters (CHP). These women will be trained on health behavior, health education, illness, assessment of basic need of the community, neonatal care, child illness, family planning, safe motherhood and routine immunization. They also may play a role for Mobile Hospital village coordinators

Aashraya Project

Supporting the victims of a powerful natural calamity,
by displaying the force and compassion of humanity!

Some times even the nature is angry with poor people with cyclones, floods and earth quakes. It shows its anger by taking away all their crop , cattle and making them homeless. Many of them don't even have temporary shelter and some people are being haunted by terrible experiences left by the nature. For those homeless, Government is ready to build houses under some schemes if they could come up with a small amount of Rs.10, 000 ($ 225 approximately). But the poor people surviving on daily wages can't afford that much. We can not leave them for their fates!

Spandana wants to help these needy people by supporting them to have their houses constructed with the help of Government funds by contributing the initial minimum amount required to qualify for the schemes.

In November 2006, Ogni cyclone done a massive disruption to the normal life in 6 coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh. Many villages are been submerged in water and caused widespread damage to houses and crops, threw normal life out of gear. Krishna district one of the worst affected district and 1, 16,611people were evacuated during the floods. Overall 11,330 housed were damaged fully and 28,242 were damaged partially . Krishna district alone have 1738 fully damaged houses and 6392 partially damaged houses during these floods.

Your valuable donation takes shape of a house for the needy. Your name or the name of person on which the donation is made will be inscribed on the wall of newly built houses for the beneficiaries. It's a great honor to your loved one and to yourself that enlighten many hearts

Your donation of $ 225 on your beloved birthday or anniversary or in memory of your elders will give rebirth to the hope on their future.

Many of them don't even have temporary shelter and some people are being haunted by terrible experiences left by recent floods and cyclones etc.

For those homeless, Government is ready to build houses under Indiramma Housing Scheme if they could come up with a small amount of Rs.10, 000 ($ 225 approximately).

But the poor people surviving on daily wages can't afford that much. Your valuable donation takes shape of a house for the needy.

Your name or the name of person on which the donation is made will be inscribed on the wall of newly built houses for the beneficiaries. It's a great honor to your loved one and to yourself that enlighten many hearts forever in the name of your family celebration. Your gift to one makes many happy and their future generations too.

Vidyalaya Project

Paving the way for a nation's glorious future,
by strengthening the backbones of it's schooling infrastructure!

The really critical aspect of the Indian public education system is its low quality. Even in educationally advanced States, an unacceptably low proportion of children who complete all grades of primary school have functional literacy. Moreover, the quality of `literates' of the school system is very low. The actual quantity of schooling that children experience and the quality of teaching they receive are extremely insufficient to any mastery of basic literacy and numeric skills.

Though there are primary schools established at the proximity of all the population, many schools have only one or two classrooms and most do not have running water and toilets. These features are not conducive to a learning environment. The really critical aspect of the Indian public education system is its low quality.

The objective of Vidyalaya program is help the Govt schools that are providing formal education in rural areas in Andhra Pradesh. Spandana is been supporting these schools that have been neglected by local communities and government officials. The goal of this program is to provide amenities, tools which can facilitate good teaching environment and improve learning techniques in government schools by which we can help the children attending these from low socio-economic backgrounds. In this program, the schools get the following benefits from Spandana.

• Infrastructure Development (Class Rooms, Desks, Library etc)
• Better environment by providing good sanitation & amenities
• Extra teacher (paid volunteer) until government provides sufficient teachers for existing students
  
• Learning/Teaching material for students

Pratibha Project

Empowering the poor for Higher education

Paving the way for a nation's glorious future,
by strengthening the backbones of it's schooling infrastructure!

Of the 200 million children in the age group 6-14, it is estimated that 59 million are out of school. Of these 35 million are girls. The dropouts are majority due to the socio-economic back-ground of the families. To meet their family expenses they are forcibly stopping their studies after 10th class or Intermediate. There are many intelligent students dropping out from higher studies, because of their family's vocation or by becoming agriculture laborers, workers etc. Some cases, though the student secure very good ranks in the competitive exams and willing to go for professional studies , the lack of financial support from the family force them to compromise in choosing the professional studies like Engineering, Medicine etc.

Spandana's objective in Pratibha project is to support poor students orally and financially to encourage for higher studies. This will help us to develop an educated society by which we can contribute to the growth of our motherland.

In this program, Spandana will be involving in the following activities:

-Helping poor students for their professional studies

-Sponsoring very poor students from the rural area for their secondary and higher secondary education

-Merit awards for encouraging students

-Events and seminars to create awareness on various career opportunities and self-employment opportunities.

Spandana Model

Spandana is a platform to facilitate social responsibility projects at our motherland. Spandana just plans the projects, activities under that project are done by memebrs, not by Spandana. Spandana core team invented a model called Spandana Model to create Vibrations of social service in NRI's and motivate them to execute social Response projects at our motherland.

Spandana model adopted a well known object oriented programming approach. Core team defined 4 classes (projects) to address all kinds of needs at our motherland. Members can create an Object (activity) of each Class (project) and execute at their native place.Members execute projects of their choice. Projects are done by members, not by Spandana. Spandana built a newtwork with offshore volunteers to support the execution of activities. Spandana tied up with wholesale vendors to acquire items like Note Books, Text Books, Guides & Test Papers, Geometry Box, School Bags, Uniform Cloth etc for cheaper price.

All the items that are required usually will be acquired at one central place and transported to the location from there. That way,offshore volunteer responsibility at the location where we are executing this project will be very minimal.

Pictorial presentation of Spandana Model is give here to understand the complete process.

Who we are?

In Aug, 2005 a group of like-minded individuals gathered together to think of ways in which they could be of help to the society. Even though all of us decided to do something at our native places, we were not very sure how to execute. We have started helping some needy people published in Indian newspaper internet editions. Gradually we came to know how difficult it is to execute the projects in India by sitting here in USA. we have started searching for non-profit organizations both in India and USA that could help us to execute different kind of projects that we are thinking of at our native place. We ended up with nothing and felt the need for one such kind of organization.

Finally we have started an organization called Spandana Foundation and made our need as an objective. Main objective of Spandana Foundation is to create the Vibrations of social service in NRI's and Motivate them to execute social Response projects at their native place. In other words, Spandana Foundation is a platform to facilitate the social responsibility projects at your native place. Spandana Model defined the process to make you understand how we facilitate various projects.

Spandana have defined four projects to address all kinds of needs at our native places. Members can initiate any activity under each project and execute at their native place. Members execute projects of their choice. Projects are done by members, not by Spandana.

What is Spandana

Spandana has multiple meanings and origins. The Indian version of Spandana means Vibration , Motivation and Response.

Spandana creates the Vibrations of social service in the NRI's and Motivate them to execute social Response projects at our motherland. In other words, Spandana is a platform to facilitate social responsibility projects on behalf of our memebrs at our motherland.