We have started legal support programs, particularly to help the poor and family-discarded aged persons. A five-men committee, headed by a retired judge and three advocates with a representative from our society, attends all legal issues related to the aged community. This committee has provided justice to as many as 110 cases in the last three years. This year, we have extended our services by conducting legal awareness camps in nearby villages to serve more ageing people. In this process, the committee heard nearly 450 issues of the aged and started working on them.
This year, our society, with the help of the prestigious L.V. Prasad Eye Care Hospital, has organized as many as 11 Eye Camps in and around our service area, where free screening and medicines have been distributed. Nearly 114 people were recognized for cataract surgeries. The hospital management has agreed to conduct free surgeries for all the recognized people in a phase-wise manner. We have also tied up with Ramesh Diabetic Centre, Chirala, who have come forward to provide free screening and medicines to the aged community in our rural area.
Our society has taken up this programme to make the future generations understand the grievances faced by the aged community. We named this programme as Sensitisation Programme on Intergenerational Bonding in Schools and Colleges. Under this programme, we have covered 32 Z.P high Schools and 8 Junior colleges with a very good response from both the kids and their parents. Besides this, Our Executive Secretary, Mr. Srinivasa Reddy, has participated as a Resource person in all sensitisation programmes conducted by NMT’s RRTC B’lore in this district since 2018.
We have been running a Senior Citizens’ Home with 25 older persons, all above 60 years old. This institution is aided by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi. We provide lodging and boarding, clothing, and other medical facilities to the inmates without any description of caste, color, or creed. Additionally, we organize outing trips four times a year.
The organization has formed green core groups with school-going children in all the villages of our service area with the intention of tree plantation, kitchen garden development, and using bio-organic pesticides. Furthermore, the organization assigns tasks to the core groups to educate their parents and neighbors.
The Society has decided in the last executive body meeting to work on ageing issues and find out the major reasons normally faced by the community. Keeping this issue in view, the society has appointed two research scholars (MSW) and allotted them ten villages for survey as a pilot project.
We have been running 10 Evening Centers at Nuthalapad (two Centers), Chintaguntapalem, Vankayalapadu, Subbareddypalem, Parchoor, Devarapalli, Veerannapalem, Audipudi & Jagarlamudi, where part-time Teachers have been hired to teach Sanskrit. We have received good support from the villagers for our work in the development of the Sanskrit language.
Since our organization is situated in a rural area where 90% of the population depends on agriculture, we have been organizing awareness programs to address setbacks such as floods, droughts, illiteracy, and exploitation. With the help of scientists, bankers, and government officials, we educate and encourage farmers to adopt advanced technology and marketing strategies in their agricultural activities.
In our village, we operate a school up to the 10th class, providing free education for 100 S.C. girls as part of our commitment to free education. Every year, our executive members also contribute donations voluntarily. Both schools are recognized by the Government of Andhra Pradesh.
To sensitize various stakeholders of senior citizens' welfare on the implementation of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, our society organized a workshop for advocates and retired judicial officers on our campus. Speakers motivated all participants to prepare an action plan for the effective implementation of the MWPSC Act 2007. A detailed discussion took place, yielding an overwhelming response.
Our society organized a one-day training program for frontline MTS staff, who serve as primary caregivers in our senior citizen homes. Nearly 17 NGOs sent their staff from Bapatla - Dist. and Nellore districts for this program. The program, enriched with advice from doctors, nutritionists, and nurses, provided extensive learning opportunities for staff to assist senior citizens in their homes for a comfortable and safe stay in their final stage of life.
Established in 1991 under Indian Societies Registration Act, No. 101/91, 'Three Men Academics' fosters educational initiatives in Andhra Pradesh.