PEOPLE’S RURAL EDUCATION MOVEMENT (PREM)

Skill improvement training
on ICT at Bharatmatha
Residential School, Paralakhemundi

PREM’S DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES REACH 5,000,000 PEOPLE IN 23 DISTRICTS OF ORISSA

People’s Rural Education Movement (PREM) is an humanitarian, secular, non-political and non-profit making voluntary organization which has worked in Orissa since 1984. In 1992 it extended its operations to Andhra Pradesh and in 2004 to Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.

The primary objectives of PREM’s development programmes are to spread education, improve healthcare, and implement livelihood and good governance initiatives among marginalized communities. Through PREM’s direct intervention approximately 1,350,000 people in 6,500 communities have benefitted from a wide range of development initiatives.

PREM, with its network partnership of 152 independent voluntary and people’s organizations, reaches more than 5,000,000 people in 23 districts of Orissa through various developmental programmes and campaigns.

Students participating in a
national ceremony

PREM also leads national level forums including National Advocacy Council for Development of Indigenous People (NAC-DIP), East Coast Fisher People Forum (ECFPF) and Utkal Dalit Mahasabha, a network of NGOs working for the upliftment of Scheduled Castes in Orissa state.

Tribal children learning at a CBCD centre