LITDS (LOYOLA INTEGRATED TRIBAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY)

LITDS is one of the tribal welfare and development society of Jesuits in Andhra Pradesh. It

serves the tribal population who are vulnerable of poverty, hunger and disease. The ultimate

purpose of LITDS is to enable the tribal people to enjoy the fruits of integral development

through various services by the Jesuits in collaboration with other religious staff, lay staff,

animators and teachers in the villages and the hamlets. Since these tribes are victims of

marginalization their settlements are in the interior and remote areas. Hence the tribes of this

area lack all the basic needs. Hence Jesuits have selected this region as field working area to

implement programs in networking with others.

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION: Katukapalli is 34 kms away from Bhadrachalam.

Bhadrachalm is located at 120 km away from Khammam, in Khammam District. It is

beyond Godavari river. There are eight tibal mandals namely, Wazeedu, Venkatapuram,

Charla, Dummugudem, Bhadrachalam, Kunavaram, V.R. Puram and Chintoor. From the

beginning our operation location is in four mandels namely Chintoor, V.R. Puram,

Kunavaram and Bhadrachalam. This area is covered with hills and thick forest . The

boundaries of these four mandals are Chattrigrah and Orissa in the Eastern direction.

FOUNDATION OF LITDS:

The long cherished dream of Jesuits in Andhra Pradesh to have a Tribal Mission in the forest

of Bhadrachalam came to a reality in 1992. It was started at Eduguralapalli of Chintoor

Mandal, Khammam District, Andhra Pradesh. In 1993 the people of Katukapalli gave 9

acres of land and invited the team to begin the various developmental activities there. Thus

Loyola Integrated Tribal Development Society (LITDS) was shifted to Katukapalli. Since

then is a collaborative venture by the Jesuits of Andhra Province.

VISION “TOGETHER WITH TRIBES TOWARDS LIBERATION”

MISSION EDUCATION, HEALTH, EMPOWERMENT AND ENVIRONMENT

PROJECT IMPLEMENTORS: Jesuit Province Society, Hyderabad.

METHOD AND APPROACH: Participatory approach, Involvement of both religious

and the laity, People oriented and people centred, Lay and religious collaboration.

REGISTRATION: Registered as LOYOLA INTEGRATED TRIBAL

DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY (LITDS) REGD. NO. 1601/96

NAME OF THE TRIBES: This area is predominantly inhabited by the Koya, Kudhu Koya

and Konda Reddies. Koyas have settled here long before in the plain area near the road

point. Konda reddies too have migrated from other states and occupied the hilly areas. The

Gothu Koyas are displaced tribes from other states and settled in the interior forest since

they do not get any place near the road point.

Goal : Integral development of tribal community

Education

Objectives

General objectives

Objective-1 To educate Tribal migrating children

Specific objective

Objective-1 Preventing chidden from migration

Objective-2 Preventing children from becoming child

laborers

Objective-3 Creating congenial atmosphere for the

working children to continue their

education

Objective-4 Enrolling the drop out children in the

primary and high schools

Objective-5 Admit them in the children home to

continue education

Objective-6 Offer comfortable and congenial

accommodation in the home

Objective-7 Coach them to appear for the

government entrance examination so

that they get free seat in the government

run residential schools

Activities

List of activities

Objective Activities planned Activities organized

Objective-1 Motivating parents not to take the

children along with them for work

and to admit them in the boarding

1. Creating educational

awareness and

motivation to the

parents and the

children in the forest.

2. Meeting the village

elders and leaders

3. Cultural program in

the interior forest

Objective-2 Providing accommodation to the

children in the home

1. Admitting them in the

LITDS hostel

2. Providing them the

good accommodation

facilities with all the

necessary needs.

Objective-3 Providing hygienic and nutritious

food

1. Giving them purified

mineral drinking water

2. Giving them fresh

vegetable and dhal,

everyday for every

meal.

3. Giving them three

meals a day.

4. Weekly three times an

egg to a child.

5. Giving them chicken

once a month with a

fruit.

Objective-4 Providing education for displaced and

migrating children

1. Admitting never

enrolled children from

LITDS to the

government primary

school

2. Educating the migrant

children in the

government primary

school.

Objective-5 Providing health to the children 1. dispensary in the

campus

2. referral in the

Bhadrachalm town

Objective-6 Conducting extracurricular activities

for the children for their physical,

social and psychological growth

1. Regular sports and

games.

2. Annual Sports Meet &

Inter-school sports meet

3. Orientation to the

students

4. Orientation to the staff

5. Teachers’ day

6. Cultural Festival

7. Students Picnic

Objective-7 Conducting single teacher’s school in

10 Gothu Koya villages

1. 10 school in the interior

displaced villages

Activity 1:

Motivation Parents not take their children along with them for work and

to admit them in the boarding;

This is the very important task of all our team members both Jesuit and non –Jesuits.

Through these efforts we try to relate with the parents, village elders and leaders to give

and to create educational awareness and motivation to them all who are displaced and

settled in the interior forest. It is really a painful experience for all of us to reach to

their door steps. We have reached fifteen hamlets which we have not gone before.

Since we went first time to their villages it was a difficult task for us to build rapport

with them all. However we tried our best to relate to them through our conversation,

awareness songs and cultural programmes by our cultural team. Moreover the

educational co-coordinator Mr Jogaiah, who is a tribal goes to their villages twice in a

week and continues the task of building a good relationship with the displaced, who are

in the interior forest.

Activity 2:

Providing accommodation to the children in the homes

Once the children are motivated we bring them to our main centre LITDS and provide

them a very good accommodation to study and we continue to support and encourage

them in their process of learning by providing all that are necessary for their holistic

growth.

Activity 3: Providing hygienic and nutritious food

We continue to take care of the children’s physical growth by providing hygienic and

nutritious food to all our children in the hostel. To fulfill this objective we have a good

kitchen with stream cooking facility which is hygienic to children’s health and keeps the

kitchen surrounding neat and clean. To give them purified and good water, we have

purified mineral drinking water plant which supplies pure mineral water twenty four

hours a day throughout the year. When children are in the campus they look healthy

and strong because of the nutritious food like rice, dall and variety of grams that we

provide during three meals time every day. Weekly three times a week an egg is given

to a child and once a month we provide them chicken with a fruit. Children are very

happy in the campus due to the variety of food items that they regularly receive in our

campus. By providing good food items the children’s’ health is taken care of very well

and their progress in the physical weights are measured every month.

The Cleanliness of the children in their villages and in the Hostel

(Children at their village)

(Children in the Hostel)

Activity 4: Providing education for displaced and migrating children

From the single teachers school that we had in the interior forest we brought forty five

students and admitted in the LITDS Bridge school. Once the small children brought to our

campus we teach them Telugu language, which is the language of the Andhra State. Initially

they find difficult to learn Telugu since they have migrated from other state. But slowly

through the encouragement and appreciation from the teachers they learn to speak and write.

We have two teachers in the campus who take care of the small children very well in all their

progress possible. We also admit some students in the government primary school, which is

very closer to our campus. Extra coaching classes and regular monthly tests are conducted to

measure their improvement. Besides there are also students studying from 2nd

class to 6th

class in the government and students study in our Arrupe High School in our campus. Our

staff members in the campus are professionally qualified to teach and continue to offer

quality education with dedicated effort. We have comfortable class rooms with all the desks

and benches. Special classes and tests are conducted regularly to the weaker students to

improve their standard of their learning. We continue to assess the students‟ progress by

conducting various tests and their academic progress card is maintained in our office. The

strength and particulars of our students are as follows:

a) Relationship with Teachers:

(There is a healthy relation developed among the teachers and students)

Student and teacher relationship is very important for a student to grow integrally in their

lives. One cannot easily forget their gurus, who have imparted a lot of sound values along

with sound education. Besides the values and education, it is the relationship with the

teacher remains forever and the good relationship is not easily forgotten both by a teacher

and by a student. In our campus the good relationship between a teacher and a student

becomes as a sacred bond and this remains forever. Due to this good relationship good

leaning takes place and due to this the teachers find easy to impart discipline, knowledge and

skills. Through one to conversation a teacher could know the students talents, strengthens

and limitations.

b) Computer Learning:

Our students from 6th

standard are introduced to computer skills. A well

furnished computer lab with a qualified teacher our student‟s every day excel in computing

skills. This ongoing training makes them to become more confident and takes away the fear

of computer. Mrs. Bhanu, a qualified teacher monitors their learning and teaches them the

necessary skills and instills in them the importance of learning computer skills.

(A well furnished room for learning and a teacher to impart computer skills to the students)

C) Capacity Building:

(Students get chance to teach in their classes to develop the teaching skills)

(Students in essay competition) (Cultural activities in nearby villages)

D) SCIENCE QUIZ:

On 5th

January six of our 8th

standard students participated in the science

quiz conducted in Chintoor. We were very happy about their preparation and eagerness

to participate in the Science Quiz competition

(Students who participated in Since Quiz)

( A science exhibition was organized in our school)

We take initiative to nurture the students in skill formation. Skills like public

speech, handwriting, essay writing, drawing, etc. are constantly taught to our children.

The resource persons do help in this area to develop the hidden talents among the

students. Along with these the students are given motivational training to persevere and

excel in their academic matters.

E) Achievement of the students:

This academic year was really a blessing to all of us. The efforts of our students and

constant support of teachers brought 100% results in 10th

standard. The photograph of

these students and their marks are as follows

Yes! We made it

Yaaa…We won

These

Children are

really

attentive

(10th

class students with teaching staff)

Activity 5 : Providing Health to the Children : The ministry of health is the upper most ministries that we provide for the people over here.

We thank all of you, from the bottom of our hearts. But because of you most of the poor

would have got the enough medicine for their sickness.

(This is Savalam Venkatesh, who met with an accident on January 20th

as he was coming

home. Our medical team found him and gave immediate medical care. At present he is fine

and doing well his studies)

(This is Badse Jyothi one of our school girls from far away a distance of 25 kms from

interior forest. . As she was walking barefoot to our school campus after vacation a piece of

glass tore her leg and the blood was gushing from her leg. The villagers brought her by the

bicycle and 0ur nurse treated on time. She is happy right now and striving hard in her studies)

(This is Ramesh Madakam studying 4th

class in our school broke his hand while playing.

He was well treated and provided the necessary medical care)

( The sick students receive medical care and attention )

(M. Gangothri, 8

th standard girl is continuously being

treated by our medical team for her Encephalitis (fits).

Because of our constant medical support, encouragement

and counseling she remains cheerful to continue her

studies.)

Activity 6: Conducting extracurricular activities for the children for their physical,

social and psychological growth

Extracurricular activities are conducted regularly for the children physical, social and

psychological growth. Students long for these kind of activities in the campus and they

do participate with a lot of eagerness and enthusiasm. We do believe these activities

make the students physically fit, psychologically happy and socially united with each

other and culture.

A)SPORTS & GAMES:

Our students participated in inter-school sports meet in Chintoor on January 4th

. Our well

trained students played volley ball, Khabadi, Kho-kho etc. We are happy that our players

were runners in volley ball and Khabadi. The winners and participants received their prizes

with deep sense of pride and achievement.

It was a great opportunity for all our students to participate in the Jesuit Inter School

tournament on February the 4th

Loyola Public School at Nallapadu. It really thrilling

experience to all our students and our players banged the overall championship trophy. It was

really a surprise to all our Jesuits too that we won many prizes.

( Fr. Peter Danial is giving away the Championship trophy)

B)Annual Sports day:

The games and sports are part of their regular schedule. The newly

appointed Physical Education Teacher is regular train our players and make them ever

active and alive through daily games.

The annual school sports day was organized on 12th

February in order to

bring out the children‟s sporting spirit. The various students participated in various

competitions. It was really a wonderful sight to the audience to see their eagerness and

enthusiasm to participate in several games and sports. The prizes were given to the

winners. and runners

(Annual sports were conducted for both boys and girls under the able guidence of our teachers)

(Winners received the Prizes )

C)Academic Prizes:

Academic prizes were given to the students, who stood first in the respective

classes. This helps the students to get motivated to study well and increases the healthy

completions among them to compete with each other.

( Students, who secured first in their respective classes: Gangaiah 7th, Nagesh 9th and Jyothi 6th class)

D)Highlights of the major celebration:

(Holy mass celebration and short cultural program on Feb.4th)

(Fr. Christuraj hoisted the flag on Republic day January 26th

)

(New Year celebration on January 1st)

Fr. Bhasker, an advocate by profession gave

orientation to our students on Human Rights on

March 5th

. It was a good opportunity to all our

students to know their basic right to live and to get

education. It was an interactive session and the

students active participation was very good.

E) ORIENTATION TO THE STAFF:

If one knows his/ her destination, he/ she is sure to reach the target with

success and with lot of happiness in the heart. There was a constant orientation given to our

teachers to set them on right track. Because working in a team needs a lot of co operation

among the teacher. That is why we give constants orientation on different topics. The effect

of these sessions are very well observed among the students positively

Fr.Christuraj was

giving the orientation to

the teachers

TEACHER’S DAY:

On January 15th

our campus specially remembered all the teachers in our

campus. We conducted friendly games in order to make all the teachers happy. It was really

a thrilling sight to see how all our teachers took part in the various event of the day. On this

day our children remembered all of them and appreciated them by a token of gift.

Teacher, who participated in

the orientation

Director motivated the

single teachers

Teacher who were paying the

attention to the orientation

(On the teachers day the students who acted as teachers) (Teaching staff)

F) Cultural festival:

The depth of these poor people happiness is „ONENESS. „This keeps them

alive, when they come in celebration of their festival. Through these festivals they worship

their unseen God, who is the constant protector. We the LITDS have organized the cultural

festival for all the tribes on February 3rd

.

This is the cultural festival conducted in our school

It is a good

opportunity

to participate

in the festival

Picnic:

It was a great privilege for all our students to spend a day out with one another. On 10th

April

we went for a picnic to Mothugudem, which is 80 kms away from our place. It was really a

good and thrilling experience to some of our students since they got in to the bus for the first

time.

Activity 7: Conducting single teacher’s school in 10 Gothu Koya Villages (the tribes

migrated from Chattisgarah)

To fulfill this task we have identified ten Gothi Koya villages that are inside the forest.

These tribes migrated from the Chattisgrarah, the neighbouring state of Andhra

Pradesh. These have migrated due to various problems and they like to settle only in

the interior forest. These families lack in electricity, road, drinking water etc . Since

they are migrants the government of Andhra Pradesh doesn’t take any initiatives to

provide them with basic facilities. Hence the children in their families are malnourished

due to lack of healthy diet and sickness is very rampant due to poor sanitation and

surroundings. In such places we have focused our attention to strengthen the displaced

community through education of the small children, who are between 3 to 5 years.

The Koya teachers are appointed to teach in their language. All the teachers have to

travel from the nearby villages and they continue to impart basic skills to read and

write.

The single teacher’s school in each village is situated in the middle of their villages.

Weekly five days our teachers work from 9.30 AM to 1.00 PM. whenever the children

are absent from the school the teachers go to their family to interact and motivate the

parents and the children to persevere their learning. The teachers make the children to

feel at home through their informal way of interacting with them . They also use play

way method of learning. Reading and writing materials are given to children. Games

and songs are taught to make their learning interesting. Students regularity is

maintained in the attendance register in each school.

From these schools we encourage the students to join in LITDS, our main centre for

learning. Last year we have joined twenty seven students from different villages.

We have Mr. Jogaiah, the educational co-coordinator who goes around the villages

monitor and motivate the school children, parents and the teachers. He also interacts

with the village elders, leaders and the parents for constructive growth of the children

especially by giving them education and recreational facilities. We also have a cluster

volunteer Mrs. Sridevi, who is a tribe and has a lot of leadership qualities. He

regularly co-ordinates five villages and helps the tribes to go to the government offices

to get old age and widow pension, ration card, ration of rice, oil and dall etc.

The following are particulars of our schools in the internally displaced hamlets

The following are some of the school pictures in the internally displaced hamlets:

Health

A. Objectives:

Objective

Promotive and curative community Based Health Programs to save

the Internally displaced Tribal communities in Bhadrachalam

Agency area.

Specific

Objectives

a. Facilitating an education processes which may lead the population to get

accesses to health care programs focusing main impetus to reproductive health

services (vaccination) to the poorest of the poor.

.

b. Eradiate the communicable diseases which exist among the population

to save the children and the tribal through education and Organization.

B. Activites

C.1 List of Activities

Objectives

Activities Organized

Objective

Curative Medical Service

a. Dispensary at the centre

b. Enabling the user groups to come to the dispensaries to avail the

existing service available through our referral service.

c. Village based Mobile Clinic to introduce and provide the Health

care measure

e. Awareness generation in the community on Health and Hygiene

Awareness on communicable diseases ( T.B, Malaria, HIV &

AIDS)

Description of Activities Implementation:

Activity 1: Dispensary at the centre:

We are extremely grateful to your valuable financial assistance to help the heath of

the three groups of tribals namely Koyas, Khudu Koyas and Kond Reddies. Since

our dispensary is situated at the centre of these tribes they feel easy to approach

our centre for any medical aid. Our two professionally qualified nurses namely Sr.

Lilly and Miss. Janaki continue to offer their generous help to take care of the sick

and to keep them good health. Since the sick have greater confidence in us any

approach us even at midnight for any emergency. We are happy that our health

centre continuous this valuable service to cure most of the diseases . Here are the

details of our service in our dispensary

Sr. Lilly on 13.06.‟13 treated Mr.

Vade Nagarju, who fell down from an

auto while he was traveling in that.

Our nurse gave him the first aid and

him all the medicines possible to

completely to cure his wounds.

Miss. Gangamma from vengtapuram constantly used to fall due to fits.

She was brought from her interior village unconsciously to get medical treatment.

We have consulted with Dr. Somiah in the town and did all the test possible. She is

suggested by the doctor to continue the medicine for one year.

Sonde Somiah met with an road accident on 08.08.13, while he was traveling on a

two wheeler. There were multiple injuries on his body and a fracture. Our nurses

gave him first aid and we have helped him to consult a orthopedist in the town.

S. Ramu fell down from the tree and there was a head injury. He was brought to our

health centre on 28.08.’13 with much bleeding and our nurse attended to his need

and gave medicine till he was cured completely.

What a surprise ! Two men carried a sick lady to our health centre from

Vethrugudem which is situated in the interior forest. Mrs. Boyamma the sick remained

in our dispensary for three days until she was brought to the normal condition. Miss.

Janaki, our nurse sent her home with all the medicines that she was suppose to take for

a week.

2.Our Mobile Clinic:

Our Mobile service continues to serve the area, where the displaced

tribes are settled in the interior forest. It is very pathetic and horrible

to see their surroundings and the environment that they live without the

basic facilities like proper house to live in, contaminated drinking water

that they drink and the surroundings are unhygienic due to cattle that

they have for their survival. Due to all these reasons they get the various

sicknesses. Our service is to reach the interior area where the

government health officers and nurses are not able to reach. Sr. Lilly

and a helper continue to serve the sick tribes in the interior forest with

smile on their faces. The details of our mobile service is mentioned in

the below:

Sr. Lilly giving medicine to the

patients in PavuraLanka, a village in

the interior forest. She regularly visits

this village on every Monday

Our nurse in Vankagudem is distributing medicine along with her helper. She goes to

this village on every Saturday along with Mrs. Sridevi to take care of the sick.

Our medical help reaches the small

babies in the interior forest, who are

unable to come to our centre. Our

nurse offer them good medicine ,

Syrup and tonics.

Our medical team in Kothrrru, in the

Kodhu Koya village to take care of the

sick.

Our team in Lankapalli, 18 km far

away from our health centre. The

malnourished children received medicines from health team.

Our mobile team constantly goes to the following villages as it is mentioned below:

Days

Name of the villages of our mobile service

Monday

Mallempeta, Alligudem, Surakunta,

Bandraigudem, Narakonda,Narasingapeta,

Alligudem Bandigumpa, Vinayakapuram,

Errakampeta, Pega, Narasimalanka, Lankapalli,

D. Jaggaram, D. Jaggaram colony, Pavuralanka,

Balimela

Tuesday

Ragavapuram, Nallakunta, Vinayakapuram,

Poosugudem, Yerraboru, Sadhugudem, Vissapuram,

Madhavaravupeta, Bandirevu, Sililipadu

Thrusday

Thatilanka, Thatigondhi, Sukkalapadu, Balimela

Saturday

Vankagudem, Laxigudem, Sarivela, Boddugudem,

Kothru, Kothuru Colony, Zinnathogu, Balimela

General statistics of our health service:

This is the general statistics of our health service through our mobile, dispensary and

referral.

The Statistics of Out-patients treated in our dispensary at the centre:

Months The various sickness

Skin Malaria tuberculosis fever Others total

June

73 56 47 95 473 744

July

94 62 58 124 506 844

August 107 60 73 131 464 835

September

79 55 50 97 410 691

0ctober

52 41 36 69 134 332

Tottal

405 274 264 516 1987 3446

The statistics of the various diseases that we treated in our Mobile Service

Months

Skin Malaria tuberculosis fever Others total

June

255 325 63 414 503 1560

July

221 265 ----- 336 884 1706

August

243 178 62 272 912 1667

September

166 123 62 384 950 1685

October

350 223 94 266 958 1891

1235 1114 281 1672 4207 8509

The Statistics of our Referral cases:

Months Skin Malaria tuberculosis fever Others total

June

6 3 7 5 3 24

July

2 5 3 4 4 18

August

3 4 8 3 5 23

September

2 1 2 5 8 18

October

____ 3 4 4 6 17

Total

13 16 24 21 26 100

This mission work itself is a great challenge to our Jesuits, who are actively involved in the

process of rebuilding the migrant community with love and dedication.

As usual our team members both Jesuit and non- Jesuit staff organized

educational motivational camp in the interior forests. It was a difficult task to the team to

organize this but through the co-operation of village elders and parents we could do this

task in 12 hamlets. Our team members through songs and dances in the tribal language made

the parents and village elders to convince the importance of sending their children either to

the school in their villages or to LITDS in Katukapalli.

Once the parents are motivated they come forward to collaborate with us in our task of

imparting basic study skill method to their children in the interior forests. The villagers also

offer a small place and build a hut for their children‟s learning. This generous act of the

villagers manifests their hidden motive to educate, support in our single-minded attention to

impart education to their children and support their bright future.

It was a challenging task to the team to bring the grown-up boys and girls to our campus.

Parents were very unhappy to send them to away from their home since the children are

either engaged in taking care of infants or helping parents in day today activities of

maintaining their homes. But gradually we could encourage and convince the parents to

send their children away from their homes for their bright future. Once the children reach our

campus they automatically get interested and involved in the process of learning and exhibit

their talents in several activities. This increased parents‟ interest to send their children to our

Arrupe High School, in our campus.

The children along with education get all-round development for their growth in our campus

namely nutritious food and medicine to take care of their good health, games, sports and

extracurricular activities to keep them happy. The dedicated staff continues to offer their

service with generous heart and single- minded mind for the integral development of these

internally displaced tribal children. This gives us a lot joy and contentment to serve more

and more with selfless attitude,

Having given the small children the basic skill of reading and writing we admitted them in

the regular Government Primary School to increase and to promote their level of learning.

But unfortunately the Government School that is closer -by do not function regularly due to

the inadequate staff and the level of students‟ learning is not up to the mark. Hence we

take extra coaching classes to those students either in the evening or during the holidays.

Since the children in our hostel are taken care of very well by us, they are so much

enthusiastic to maintain regularity and cleanliness. We are also happy to notice the students‟

integral growth within a short period of time that this positive growth gives energy to our

staff to always be interested in their development.

It is a challenge to all our staff to motivate all the children in the hamlets in spite of reaching

their door steps. We could get only small number of children both in the interior villages

schools and to our main campus LITDS. This only shows the parents and the elders lack of

conviction and ignorance. It may be a long journey to instill in their minds the importance of

education. In spite of all this we like to continue our mission since we would like to serve

the displaced.