Who We Are

About ODA

Ensuring a secured future for people with disability & socially vulnerable women

We work for people with disabilities and women who are socially vulnerable, living in rural areas and especially in poverty.

Organisation for Development Action (ODA) was established in 2003 to promote Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) work among persons with disabilities and others who are socially vulnerable, living in poverty and facing social injustice in rural areas. Our main focus is to build the capacity of the stakeholders to form Self Help Groups (SHG) and peoples’ organisations to address their basic needs and rights such as education, medical, rehabilitation and employment which help them to build a life of dignity and come out of the cycle of poverty.

Who we are

Our Approach

- Our Mission

ODA upholds and is guided by the values of dignity, inclusion, equality and independence. Accountability and transparency are other sets of values that we practice with the community and other development stakeholders.

- Our Vision

Our Vision is of an equitable, just and inclusive society where the rights of persons with disabilities and socially marginalized groups are realized and thereby enjoy full participation in all spheres of life.

- Our Work

We are promoting CBR work directly in 40 panchayats of Karur district and empowering vulnerable women economically to overcome poverty. Also, guiding NGOs, Disabled People’s Organizations and Parents Associations in Tamil Nadu and the Kerala States with networking and required capacity-building measures.

Our Approach

- Our Mission

- Our Vision

- Our Work

We are promoting CBR work directly in 40 panchayats of Karur district and empowering vulnerable women economically to overcome poverty. Also, we are guiding NGOs, Disabled People’s Organizations and Parents Associations in Tamil Nadu and the Kerala States with networking and required capacity-building measures.

Future Aim & Objectives

Focused livelihood interventions to address the poverty of the target poor families.
Will be constructing an early intervention centre and office in Thogamalai block.
Setting up more adult vocational centres for the intellectually disabled.
Will be starting two more early intervention centres in the Kadavur block.
Committed to training more CBR workers, DPO leaders and community volunteers.
Expanding our service to neighbouring districts like Trichy, Pudukkottai.