Society for Poor People Development (SPPD)

SPPD is a Non Profit, Charity and Community Development organization that envisions a secured & sustainable community with focus on developing section Read mores of society that are at risk and most deserving under five thematic areas. Education and skill development focuses on providing Quality education towards wholesome development for the under privileged children and Vocational skill training for rewarding careers to the rural youth. This is aimed at ensuring fundamental rights of the deprived children and youth. Similarly providing nutritious food supplements to the child victims of HIV/AIDS from pathetically poor families forms an important initiative of our organization. The intervention among women aims at developing women especially those from the resource poor and marginalized communities through building their capacity to become self reliant. SPPD promotes the organic farming methods for sustainable agriculture among the small dry land farmers in Tamilnadu. Similarly SPPD while extending relief and rehabilitation for the victims of disasters like flood, cyclones, earthquake, makes it a point to keep the poor communities disaster prepared, through continuous sensitization and training. Our target communities belong to the central districts of Trichy, Namkkal and Karur and the northern districts of Chennai, Trivellore and Kancheepuram of Tamilnadu state in South India.

Our Vision
SPPD envisions a secured and sustainable community in Tamil Nadu.

Mission
SPPD recognizes the need to support and encourage the sustainable development of education for the children and adolescents, empowerment of women, and all the resource poor communities and the environment for self-sustaining entities.

One of the major developments during this period of 25+ years is the substantial expansion in terms of geographical territory and in numbers. SPPD’s activity were confined to 2 districts until 2007 has now got expanded to 7 districts of Tamilnadu state.

Similarly, a quantum jump has also taken place in number of members of various target communities. For instance, in this decade alone around 18000 women have been facilitated to get organized in to 1200 Self Help Groups. Well over 9000 children of poor and deprived sections have been reached with a variety of interventions.

Focus on shaping the lives of youth has been a pioneering effort of SPPD. We have in this period guided, ensured skill training and rewarding career placements for as many as 550 youth. Our reach to the marginal and dry land farming community too underwent transformation. The previous interventions of helping farmers mainly in chemical input driven agriculture have been directed towards ensuring low cost fodder and organic farming techniques for Sustainable Agriculture. The idea of establishing a Farmers’ Producers Company has been mooted by the members of farmers clubs in 2017.

Disaster Management is yet another milestone of SPPD in this period, as we have been involved in working cyclone and flood hit victims of the poor slum neighbourhoods of Chennai city. Apart from relief and rehabilitation Disaster Preparedness training is carried out as ongoing activity among slum dwellers in the city.