We are participating the youth and children in the social reconstruction process with the view to create a new community vibrant with the values of love, justice, fraternity, cooperation and mutual concern. Youth and Children play a very crucial role in building up of a nation Shreyas strongly believes it as our paramount responsibility to inculcate values in children and grow them with sublime vision. We are organizing various programmes for the integrated development of youth and children through Balajyothi and youth clubs. As a result 416 Children groups are working supporting the children initiatives and around 8000 children are actively participating in this process. Regular monthly meetings, Quiz competitions, Nature Study Camps, Planting and greening of environment, Venal Kalari education camps, promoting small savings etc are some of the major activities of our child development initiative. Our youth clubs mainly focus in providing self employment opportunities for unemployed youths of excluded communities especially among the tribal youth of Wayanad. We are definite that our interventions will facilitate employment opportunities among tribal youth and save them from starvation.

Poverty is the worst form of social evil and one of the burning issues in our country. In order to eradicate poverty, Shreyas promotes Family Development Programme among the poorest families with the support of Save A Family Plan. Family Development Programme is the debut programme of Save A Family Plan. In this programme one family, individual or group from Canada, USA or Europe supports a selected poor family in India for a period of six years to make the family economically self-reliant The poorest of the poor families are identified by Shreyas from the grass root level and are given assistance to initiate income generation programme in order to bring them into the ultimate development. The better living conditions helped the poor families to regain their lost self esteem and helped them a lot to hold better positions in the society. The online programme initiated by SAFP in this regard is praise worthy. At present SAFP insists on regional approach in selecting the partner families for visibility of results.

This Department is another key area of our intervention in ensuring the equal participation of both the gender in development programme for the integral development of a Community. Hence Gender in Development Department provides necessary training's and support for assuring gender sensitivity and equity in all our interventions. The role of women in decision making and the right for holding assets is emphasized through this department. Moreover, creative participation of women in local development activities is ensured through different programmes. We could change the existing inequality to a great extent by integrating gender as a cross cutting theme in all our developmental activities.

Community Based Rehabilitation is a programme where persons with disabilities (PWDs) are identified and supported through the community. Community Development Programme of Shreyas has a systemic approach we recognize their real needs and work for their ultimate empowerment. We organized them and thirteen SHG groups have been formed in Nenmenni and Bathery Grama Panchayats in Wayanad District and over 694 differently abled have been identified in these areas. The department initiates diverse promotional activities for the betterment of these groups by collaborating them with Government programmes. Shreyas is recognized as the District Facilitation Centre (DFC) for Wayanad by ADD India.

In Shreyas we have a disaster management cell. The team provides immediate response in case of any disasters in and around the State. Their duties include continuous and integrated process of planning organizing, coordinating, and implementing measures. The cell aims at preparing Disaster Management Plan for various affected sections of society. Our major Operational areas include Wayanad, Kozhikode, Malappuram, Kannur and Nilgiris. AGENCIES WE ASSOCIATE WITH Caritas India Catholic Relief Service (CRS) Kerala Social Service Forum (KSSF) Care India Oxfam India Americare United Way CNEWA India Butterfly Sense International India ALP Foundation, Switzerland SAFP India

The Well-furnished Training and Research Centre of Shreyas and the trained resource persons enabled us to become an excellent training and consultant agency. Shreyas render training and expert services to local government departments and others at the grass root level on various developmental themes during the reporting year. Further the centre stands as a good platform for the other developmental actors to come, share and discuss their views on recent and relevant topics of importance and fosters linkage and collaboration. Besides this, the training and research centre contributes to capacity building of our staff, local government officials, religious and other professionals and ensures the financial stability of the organization.

Nature has indeed been generous to mankind. It has given us endless bounties like landscapes, forests, mountains, beaches, birds and wildlife and above all, its own system to maintain ecological balance. While enjoying these bounties, it's incumbent upon us to leave them unpolluted for others to relish them too! This was really the pledge of NRM-Department of Shreyas. The NRM sector plays a very vital role in creating critical awareness among the partners on the importance of environment protection. We realize that it's crucial to protect the environment. Shreyas is in its forefront to identify this necessity and make the people respond to the challenging environmental situation. The NRM-Sector of Shreyas promotes the activities relating to the ecological restoration including soil, water and biomass conservation.

Community Based Institutions of Shreyas brings people from the margins and gives them the tools of development. As a pioneer in this field, we reversed conventional banking practice by removing the need for collateral and created a banking system based on mutual trust, accountability, participation and creativity. The CBOs are the main platforms of the people to assemble, develop, strengthen and exploit internal and external resource for sustainable development. We make every effort in making these institutions self sustainable with more visible results. The Swasraya Nidhi-"Microfinance Scheme of Shreyas" is a cost effective weapon to fight poverty and it serves as a catalyst in the overall development of socio-economic conditions of the poor by stabilizing their livelihoods. The Community Based Institutions and Swasraya Nidhi offer new viable opportunities to the poor to revitalize their village economy

Agriculture and Animal husbandry development programmes are initiated by Shreyas since 1979, as most of the partner families fall under the category of small and marginal farmers. We focus on developing indigenous technologies for promoting sustainable agriculture. Shreyas promoted organic farming practices among the partner families. At present this department is working in collaboration with the Natural Resource Management department of Shreyas.
Objectives
# To promote sustainable agriculture practices
# To promote the linkages and collaboration with agriculture department
# To strengthen the farm clubs
# To undertake participatory technology development
# To document and disseminate the learning and knowledge among the farmers

The tribal clan has an important position in the history of the cultural heritage of Wayanad. Being the owners of lands in the yester years, they were self sufficient in themselves that they even had a genuine culture of their own. Nature's children, as they are known, led a life that was best suited for preserving the freshness and beauty of uninhabited forests and woodlands. Today, the existence of tribal is questioned due to the necessary social evils like capitalism, consumerism and migration in large number. Tribal Development is another major thrust area, where the ultimate aim is to create critical consciousness among the tribal community by instilling the habit of thrift and savings. Other programme promoted among the tribal community is leadership promotion, awareness creation and livelihood enhancement. We could promote all this empowerment works without affecting their indigenous and rich culture. At present we have development interventions in 175 tribal hamlets in Wayanad. The native adivasis mainly includes the Paniyas, Kurumas, Ooralis, Kattunaickas, Adiyas etc. They have their own distinct ways life styles, culture, customs, traditions and religious practices. They constitute about 17.43% of the total population of Wayanad.

In the present tenure of agrarian crisis, it is essential to promote alternative sources of income to regain the vibrancy of the economy. Providing job oriented training to youth and women is the main focus of this department. The department takes systematic effort and enables the trained women to find alternative sources of supplementary income. In this way the rural women could stand on their own feet and march forward with economic self reliance. Promotion of skill development and self employment is the urgent need of time which alone can tackle the crucial unemployment. The micro enterprises and income generating ventures promoted by Shreyas enhance the income of the partner families and contribute for vibrant improvements in the quality of life of the partner families. For the accomplishment of this task, we are associated with many Government Agencies including NABARD, COIR BOARD, Khadi Board, DIC and others.

The Educational support of Shreyas was launched in the year 1992-93 onwards in remembrance of Late. Fr. Philip Chakkalamuriyil the Ex-Assiatant Executive Director of Shreyas. The Scheme was earlier called as Philip Chakkalamuriyil endowmwnt fund. Then we are blessed with Education support project of IGSSS in the year 1995-96 and this support was mainly utilized to applaud the best student award winners of SSLC from our Regions. The programme was later renamed as Shreyas Educational Support Scheme- SESS, the fund was locally mobilized from our structure and used to support the education of the under privileged children.