Making an Impact ​Every Day in USA and India 

                                        Pragathi means Progress  

Global Pragathi (USA) (Tax ID: 37-1648736) is involved in the prevention of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, high BP, heart and kidney diseases etc.,associated with lifestyle risk factors,through:

• Annual Holi Colors 5 K walk/Run in Dayton
• Monthly Health Strides walk to promote physical exercise in Dayton
• Poker Walk for Veterans
• VA walking programs
• STOP KIDNEY DISEASE initiatives 
• Volunteering in free clinics - Good Neighbor, Five Rivers, ROMC
• Created Kidney Disease Fund at Miami Valley Hospital Foundation 
• Support Children’s Hospital Foundation to prevent childhood obesity 
• Supported Girls On The Run of Dayton, Bicycles for All, Dayton Wolverine Track Club 
• Raising childhood obesity awareness with AAPI 
• Educating medical students, fellow physicians and patients daily in prevention of chronic illnesses
• Collaborating in wellness groups and symposiums in the local community
• Local newspaper articles
• Also support poverty alleviation work in different states of India

Pragathi Welfare Society (India) ( 80 G/12 A, FCRA approved) is focussed on poverty alleviation work in marginalized sections through holistic development in education, women & youth employment, preventive medicine and community support in ten villages of Telangana State to impact 1100 families.  We also impact the lives of millions of indigent people through our efforts and collaborations with other organizations in neighboring villages and several states of India. Some of our accomplishments are:

• Open Defecation Free Villages - construction of  614 toilets and education of the villagers to use them
• Pragathi Rural Development Center to support neighboring villages 
• Best school infrastructure in rural Telangana State for over 1000 kids in eight schools who now have auditoria, classrooms, play-grounds, access to library books, science lab, computer lab  and other facilities
• Swachh Patshala Award for cleanest primary school in the state of Telangana
•  Education improvement programs in 100 schools supporting 13,000 kids, to improve enrollment, decrease absenteeism, drop outs and improve overall quality of education
• Collaborating with Nirmaan Organization to reach out to more than 100,000 students of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for career counseling
•  Kashireddyguda,a model village plan
• Two clean drinking water plants to serve 7000 indigent people
• The SMILES Program - our unique, comprehensive preventive medicine program designed for other regions also
• Two hundred bicycles have been distributed to marginalized girl school students
• Sneha Menstrual hygiene program for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh
• 250 sewing machines have been donated for employment of women
• 350 youth, mostly girls sent for skill training programs and about 200 youth employed
• Providing employment to 25 indigent village youth
•  150 flood damaged houses have been rebuilt 
• Construction of several classrooms 
• Mahila Mandal Building constructed for village women
• Pragathi Bhavan construction
• Gift of Giving program to celebrate personal milestones
• Persistent motivation of villagers  
• Collaborations with several other credible organizations