Category Archive for: Total Development Focus

Environment

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SST works hard with communities on a range of green measures that are sustainable.   We create awareness about soil erosion, deforestation, and encourage tree planting. Most importantly, we teach communities to respect their environment. This means using natural resources sensibly, through water and soil conservation.   We have also introduced garbage collection, disposal and…



Education

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In villages, school drop-out rates remain high, girls skip school and many students fail to acquire secondary education. SST is working with parents and government schools to eliminate these imbalances.   We create awareness through parent and teacher meetings. Our aim is to motivate parents to send kids to school and keep them there. We…



Social and Cultural Development

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We hold trust as the greatest medium. We use this to convince communities to work with us for sustainable change and development.   The development model we follow needs the collaboration of everyone in the community. This breaks down caste barriers.   We also emphasise on solutions that come from the villagers, so they can…



Economic Development

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No one wants to remain poor. Still, several families and individuals do not have the skills, or the means to a better wage. So we encourage people to learn more to earn more. This means more self-help groups, training people and introducing better farming methods.   We also assist individuals and self-help groups access government programs…



Infrastructure

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We have discovered that attitudes change in communities once they are given basic facilities. This can range from care centres for children, roads, community halls, schools to primary healthcare centres.   Typically, when communities have a stake in this they tend to take an active interest in maintaining them. Often, they improve upon them. SST…



Health

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Our programs focus on preventive healthcare. Our aim is to enable women and children to survive childbirth, avoid malnutrition and access the care they need.   SST organises camps that offer primary healthcare services to spot common issues including anaemia, poor vision and dental problems.   Our simple solutions include building toilets, providing clean drinking…