ABR Trust is dedicated to promoting
basic education for all. Experience shows that educated
people are likely to marry later and have healthier families
and greater earning potential. Our projects promote and
facilitate discussion between parents, teachers and other
members of the community to overcome barriers to education
that help keep families mired in poverty. ABR Trust also
provides economic incentives and full educational sponsorships
to help parents cover the cost of keeping their children
in school.
Health
Family must be physically healthy,
to be economically healthy. ABR Trust's health projects
focus on mothers and children, who often are the most
vulnerable to disease and malnutrition. ABR Trust is focused
on nutrition, education, birth spacing and clinical services.
Our reproductive health projects encompass family planning,
prenatal care, labor and delivery services, and the prevention,
detection and treatment of STDs, including HIV/AIDS.
STD and HIV/AIDS
ABR Trust's HIV/AIDS programs focuses
on providing information and services to vulnerable groups
while addressing the underlying factors that lead people
to make choices that put them at risk of infection. Our
HIV/AIDS program will work in tandem with our other programs
including health, education and economic development.
Through our HIV/AIDS programs, we help communities care
for children orphaned and made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS;
develop peer education and outreach in communities; and
increase access to services such as condoms, voluntary
counseling and testing, anti-retroviral treatment, and
STI prevention and treatment.
Nutrition (Child
and Women)
Proper nutrition is vital to a child's
healthy development and an adult's ability to work and
care for his or her family. Our projects focus on teaching
techniques and practices that help prevent malnutrition.
These include demonstrating proper breast feeding; educating
families and communities about how to cultivate and prepare
nutritious food; providing food as part of emergency relief
efforts. ABR helps underprivileged families by providing
prenatal vitamins necessary for pregnant women.
Water
and Sanitation
ABR helps communities build and maintain
clean water systems and latrines both directly and through
local organizations. Our goal of these efforts is to reduce
the health risks of water born diseases and to increase
the earning potential of households by saving time otherwise
spent gathering water by walking to several miles. ABR
Trust also put efforts in educating people about good
hygiene habits and risk of illnesses.
Emergency
Relief
At ABR Trust we understand that the
fight against is never more difficult than in times of
crisis. We focus on directly assisting survivors of natural
disasters (floods and drought) through both immediate
relief and longer-term community rehabilitation, including
food, temporary shelter, clean water, sanitation services,
and medical care.
Future Activities
1. We are working to setup a Oldage Home for senior citizens who are rejected by their families, or in need of housing and care. A complex consists of a housing facility for Senior citizens, library, clinic and computer lab will be set up in 15 acres.
2. A plan is in place to adopt four villages medically from backward region of Andhra Pradesh. A complete free health care will be provided to people who cannot afford health care for most common diseases. We are working with physicians in USA and India to make this project successful
Recent Activities
We have worked on several
projects with various organizations in the areas of
education, health care and senior care areas.
1. Full Educational Sponsorship for 4 Engineering Students (4 years)
2. Lions Eye Clinic, Bodhan, A.P.
3. Society for Rural Scholars, Guntur, India
3. DVR Trust,
Hyderabad/Mahaboobnagar, AP
4. Medical Camps with Talanki
Charitable Trust, Anathapur, AP
5. USAHI, A Non-Profit Organization working for education and health care for rural people.
