About us
Overview Social Education Economical Development Society (SEEDS) is a non-profit
organization promoted by Mr. S.D. Pandian, a Sarvodaya Worker. He has been associating himself with Sarvodaya Movement of AchyaryaVinobaBhave for nearly more than two decades. It is to be noted that his father and grandfather also played active roles in the Sarvodaya Movement. Mr.Pandian with his rich experience in promoting ideals of the Gandhian voluntarily initiated rural development activities with the help of like-minded individuals in the surroundings of Aruppukottai, Tiruchuli and Kariyapatti Blocks. To strengthen the services better, a society was registered namely, “Social Education Economical Development Society” (SEEDS)in the year 1995 under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act 27 of 1975. The mandate of the organization is to enable marginalized and disadvantaged rural women to achieve their socio-economic development through a process of organization and participation. In pursuant to this end, SEEDS has been reaching out to more than 40,000 families in hundreds of villages in Virudhunagar, Ramanathapuram and Thoothukudi Districts of Tamil Nadu. SEEDS implements many number of socioeconomic programmes, with the support of agencies of the state and central Governments and Foreign Funding Agencies including other commercial banks. Objectives:
Vision: ‘’SEEDS envisages, a society, where poor and marginalized women are socially,economically developed with environmental consciousness and gender equity; and the children enjoy their childhood’’ Mission: ‘’Enabling the poor and marginalized families by organizing themselves, and facilitatingtheir empowerment process to achieve their socio economic development through a process of organization, institution building, and effective participation’’ Our target people: The following categories of people are target people of SEEDS.
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