District Disabled Peoples Organization (DDPO) is under the guidance of Uma Educational and Technical Society, Kakinada with the support of CBR Forum, Bangalore through CARITAS India, New Delhi. The main aim is to Empowering PwDs through Promoting Leadership and Collective Initiatives in East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh.

District Disabled Peoples Organization (Asharaya Zilla Vikalangula Samakya) East Godavari District with is promoted with 373 Village DPOs consisting of 3930 PWDs are under the jurisdiction of DDPO which includes 11 Mandal Level DPOs total 15989 PwDs have benefited different services.

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Key Achievements

• 221 VDPOs are getting financial assistance from the Government of Andhra Pradesh for their development.

• Conducted two days training programme with 25 DDPO leaders on DDPO manual, PwDs Acts and entitlements.

• Conducted two days training programme with 37 DDPO leaders on 2nd level leaderships, Advocacy, documentation, RTI, and entitlements

• Conducted press and media meet with 12 media peoples focussing on quality education, accessibility, 4% job reservation, Political reservation and framing the rules of RPwD Act 2016.

• Conducted state level advocacy programme with collaboration of state level CBOs, NGOs to Smt. T.Vanitha, Minister for Woman, Child and Differently Abled welfare at Vijayawada.

• 11456 PwDs were got social security pension under YSR Barosa scheme Rs. 3000/- per