Rural Development Society

Rural Development Society (RDS) is a local non governmental NGO. It was established in July, 1986 with the initiation of a group of educated like minded social workers with an aim to promote the socio-economic and cultural status of the rural poor and vulnerable people, emphasising the women and children through conscientization, capacity building, institution building, capital formation, and impa

rting felt-need based problem solving programs by adopting modern scientific technologies in a view to reduced poverty and empowerment of rural women in decision making processes. RDS believes in non-directive, bottom up, participatory and integrated development frameworks and acts as a catalyst with its beneficiaries. Objectives:

a) Capacity building,
b) Education,
c) Capital Formation,
d) Employment and Income Creation-through micro credit operation,
e) People's Institution building,
f) Gender development,
g) Environment development,
h) Future citizen development,
i) Agriculture development. l) Anti-drug and anti-social activity promotion,
m) Integration of the poor people in the main stream of national development,
n) Involvement of women into economic and productive activities,
o) Conduct disaster preparedness and management activities etc.