CARPED holds various programmes for poor

Hyderabad: In order to provide better life and also to solve various problems faced by marginalised communities especially women and kids, Centre for Action Research and People's Development(CARPED) has extended their hand to help the underprivileged by organising various health camps, providing education facility to the children in the city slums and also in some parts of remote areas in Telangana that includes Medak, and Adilabad.

CARPED is successfully providing institutional health care facilities for marginalised women in government hospitals for safe deliveries, provides free education to the children and till date provided free medical aid to more than 5,000 children with heart diseases.

Bharath Bhushan Mamidi, the founder-secretary of CARPED, said, "The main aim is the participatory development of marginalised communities." For the development purpose, he took voluntary retirement from his job in ICRISAT at the age of 31, started this organisation in the year 1989.

"With the help of 50 volunteers, we are organising various programme in the name of Basthi Vikas Manch (platform) at various slums. Every month we visit various slums in the city, organises health intervention, health camps. So far, more than 6,000 students were provided free education in our CARPED school.

He further said that every month they also conducted various painting competition in slum areas (Domalguda area, Secunderabad, Barshreebad, and Baglimpally). As various slums dwellers in the city do not have proper knowledge about health and sanitation, so the NGO is trying educated them about this issue, he added. "We have a page on Facebook, named as CARPED and post various pictures. Slowly various corporate agency and interested people stated supporting us by donating money," he said.