On behalf of Farmers, women, children, staff, and executive committee of BIRDS I thank all the supporters Individuals, organizations and the Government for supporting BIRDS during 2018.
With very kind and large support (core support) of Mother Doris and Dr. George Feldman (Support for Community health) we could work at Head office level at Nandyal, and at Organic farm with trainings, 10 bed hospital, Community health program, boarding home's (Boys and Girls) and teachers at school, BIRDS's address issues of vulnerable sections of the society including Small & marginal farmers, widows, men & women, aged, children. Largely support and coordinate other donor's projects in the organization.
I specially acknowledge the support of Ms. Doris Scharpf, (with kind help of Barbara Campbell, Bill Codington, Mr. Greg Enable, Sten Carlson and Mrs. and Mr. Marta Kevin) Dr. George, Dr. Ginny (Community health and Hospital) Hanna Blenny (Shelter International) help in running Sanitary Napkin Project for widows, and thankful to Mr Bill Shearers & Eleanor Muclung (education and boarding home support) and Mrs. Eva Peter Meier and her team from Germany, and finally thankful to Rotary International (Dr. Susan Cooksey) for kind help to sanitary Napkin Project. Mrs. Kathy Kingsley & many other child sponsors.
Finally we express our thankfulness to the Donor agencies including the Shri. Satyanarayana garu IAS District Collector of Kunool Govt. of AP, Shri Ronald Rose IAS garu, District Collector Mahabubnagar, Govt. of TS, Shri K. Shashanka, IAS garu District Collector Jogulamba Gadwal, Shri. E. Shridhar IAS, District Collector Nagarkurnool, Smt. Sweta Mahanty IAS, District Collector Wanaparthy, Dr. K.A.S Mani Consultant World Bank, Dr. C. Konda Reddy FAO, Ms Eileen, Mr. Valery, from PC USA/PHP, Ms. Rachel Brink Conley of Growing Hope Globally (FRB), and Mrs. Salomi Yesudas from CHETHANA. Mrs. Anitha, Sri. Madhu Sagili, Ms. Shanthi Thummati, Sri.Dharmana Sundaray, Sri. Chandan Barman, Sri. Kalyan, Sri. Vadivelu Rajan, Sri. Ram Prasad, Sri. Sakuru Narayanaswamy, are from PLAN India / International. Dr. Daisy Kuchinad (Hope charities) Mr. Mohan Rao EFFORT, Mr. Prosun Sen, Advocacy & Communication Specialist - UNICEF Hyderabad, and Chairperson GEF CSO, for their support to BIRDS for Implementation of programs for the benefit of poor (farmers, widows, children in distress, children at risk, girls children, adult cents, and marginalized)
Special thanks to Dr. M. Madhukar Reddy President of BIRDS and Mrs. M. Sharadamma outgoing Treasurer of BIRDS for her services for many years, hearty welcome to the new treasurer Mr. M. Vijaya Kumar & other Executive Committee members of BIRDS, All the staff of BIRDS, Communities and My Family (My Wife Latha, Daughters Sindhura, Cecilia / Bala Krishna and Sushanthi, and my lovely Grand Daughter Sojal D. Marissa) for their excellent support in implementing BIRDS Programs.
