KISES began as a voluntary organisation in 1999, with early work focused on empowering women’s groups, strengthening self help groups, and supporting families with banking assistance and livelihood stability.

Over time, KISES expanded into coastal and vulnerable geographies with health, sanitation, and rehabilitation interventions, including large community basedprogrammes in Machilipatnam and Nagayalanka mandals covering 16 villages, supported by TdH, Switzerland.

A key milestone was the establishment of a community health centre in Pedapatnam to address critical healthcare access gaps, strengthening the ability to serve coastal and remote villages where travel to facilities is difficult for the elderly and infirm.

In parallel, KISES has built strong work with children in highly marginalised settings, including children living in slum colonies and near dump yard communities around Vijayawada, where education, nutrition, hygiene, and protection become urgent daily needs.

KISES works across five interconnected focus areas, based on long-standing field experience and community priorities:

1. Literacy and Education

• Adult literacy programmes, especially for Dalit and Lambadi women, and literacy centre models in rural mandals
• Mainstreaming out of school and dropout children into formal education
• Education support, scholarships, and child sponsorship for vulnerable children including orphaned and semi orphaned children
• Education and care support for children living in dump yard linked communities

2. Women Empowerment and Livelihoods

• Formation and strengthening of 220 self help groups with 2,200 women members
• Bank linkages facilitated to enable access to approximately INR 1.5 crore in credit
• Vocational training and income generation support including tailoring, embroidery, candle making, toy making, adda leaves and bag making
• Micro finance support for SHGs to build resilience and reduce dependence on informal debt.

3. Health, Nutrition and Sanitation

• Maternal and child health programmes in Machilipatnam and Nagayalanka mandals covering 16 villages
• Nutrition support for children and care for pregnant and lactating women
• Immunisation promotion, reproductive health services, and HIV/AIDS awareness
• Regular health camps including general, women, child, eye, and dental camps
• Sanitation promotion and household toilet adoption.

4. Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation

• Tsunami relief and long term rehabilitation in coastal and island villages
• Flood relief operations across Krishna and Guntur districts, supporting over 1,500 families
• Post disaster rehabilitation support including house repairs, toilets, livestock distribution, fruit tree plantation, and livelihood restoration

5. Community Awareness and Social Development

• Community awareness programmes on health, sanitation, environmental cleanliness, government schemes, alcoholism, and harmful practices
• Community mobilisation activities that strengthen participation and collective responsibility

Legal & Governance

KISES is a registered non governmental voluntary social service organisation established in 1999 under the Societies Registration Act with Registration No. 10177/99.

• KISES is registered under FCRA with FCRA No. 010250116, and is registered under Income Tax Section 12A and 80G.
• Registered Office: #1-70/1A, Naidupet, Khammam Rural Mandal, Khammam District, Telangana 507003

KISES runs multiple ongoing projects that respond to daily vulnerabilities in education, health, livelihoods, and women’s empowerment. These initiatives are designed to be continuous, community rooted, and outcomes oriented:

1. Health Centre and Mobile Health Outreach
   Building access to basic and specialist health services for coastal and remote communities, with regular health camps and outreach support.
2. Micro Lending and SHG Strengthening
   Strengthening women-led self-help groups, enabling bank linkages, and improving financial resilience and livelihoods through microfinance and enterprise support.
3. Slum and Dump School
   Supporting children from slum colonies and dump yard-linked communities through schooling, life skills, hygiene, nutrition support, and health linkages.
4. Child Sponsorship
   Providing education continuity and care support for orphaned and semi-orphaned children so that poverty and family vulnerability do not end a child’s learning journey.
5. Women Empowerment and Livelihoods
   Building women’s leadership, decision-making power, and sustainable income pathways through SHGs, skills training, and access to formal credit.

Across its journey, KISES has completed several projects that have created lasting community benefit. These projects continue to inform and strengthen our ongoing work:

Adult Literacy
What KISES did: Established literacy centres and ran adult literacy programmes targeting Dalit and tribal women, with a strong focus on functional literacy and confidence building.

Impact legacy: 300 Dalit and tribal women became functionally literate.

Disaster Rehabilitation
What KISES did: Implemented tsunami relief and long term rehabilitation, followed by flood relief operations in Krishna and Guntur districts, including essential kits and livelihood restoration support.

Impact legacy: 1,500+ families supported through flood relief and rehabilitation.

MCH Health Programmes
What KISES did: Maternal and child health work in Machilipatnam and Nagayalanka mandals covering 16 villages, with immunisation promotion, reproductive health services, and nutrition support for women and children.

Impact legacy: 100% immunisation coverage achieved in target villages, alongside improved institutional deliveries and exclusive breastfeeding practices.

WASH Project
What KISES did: Sanitation and hygiene behaviour change activities, household and school sanitation improvements, and community monitoring to reduce open defecation and improve hygiene practices.

Impact legacy: Strong hygiene behaviourchange outcomes, including handwashing adoption at critical times.

Vocational Training
What KISES did: Vocational training for women, dropout girls, and unemployed youth, including tailoring centres and machines provided post training to enable earning pathways.

School Development
What KISES did: Mainstreamed out of school and dropout children into formal education and supported continued education through scholarships and support systems.
Impact legacy: 75+ children mainstreamed into schools from begging and dropout backgrounds.

Environmental Initiatives
What KISES did: Community awareness on environmental cleanliness and promotion of environmental protection practices as part of broader community development.

Edurumondi Island
What KISES did: Coastal and island village relief, rehabilitation, and service support, building resilience in geographies that face recurring vulnerability due to disasters and access barriers.

KISES believes sustainable impact is created through collaboration and trust based partnerships.

Over the years, KISES has worked with reputed supporters and agencies, reflecting the organisation’s credibility and capacity to implement community level programmes:

International and Institutional Partners

• TdH Foundation, Switzerland: Supported maternal and child health (MCH) and WASH interventions
• New Life Association (NLA), Italy
• EMMAUS, Switzerland
• Swiss League of Catholic Women (SCLW)
• Volunteer fundraisers and supporters from the UK who have helped sustain education and care initiatives for slum and dump communities

Community and Local Institutions
KISES consistently works with community basedorganisations, self help groups, and village level structures to ensure local ownership and accountability:

• • Machilipatnam Municipality
  • Government Hospital, Machilipatnam
  • Primary Health Centre, Guduru
  • ANM (Auxiliary Nurse Midwife) frontline health system
  • ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services)
  • Village Development Committees (VDCs)

KISES is committed to deepening impact by strengthening community institutions, improving service access, and ensuring that the most excluded families are not left behind. The organisation’s forward direction continues to focus on:

• • Strengthening livelihoods for women, tribal communities, persons with disabilities, and other marginalised groups
  • Strengthening community basedorganisations and improving access to quality education, health, and social protection
  • Expanding preventive health care, awareness on HIV/AIDS, environmental protection, and sustainable agriculture
  • Continuing focused work to reduce child labour, improve health outcomes, and protect vulnerable children in high risk living conditions

• When you stand with KISES, you stand with families who are working hard to break cycles of poverty but need reliable pathways to education, health, safety, and livelihood opportunity. KISES invites individuals, CSR partners, foundations, and well wishers to support long term, community rooted solutions that are transparent, practical, and impact oriented.

  Ways to stand with KISES

  • Support ongoing projects that keep children learning and healthy, and women economically stronger
  • Sponsor education, nutrition, and life skills for children in the most vulnerable communities
  • Partner on women’s livelihoods and SHG strengthening initiatives
  • Support community health outreach and basic healthcare access for remote villages
  • Collaborate with KISES as a CSR partner to create measurable, field anchored impact across education, health, WASH, and livelihoods

  Support this work. Partner with KISES.