Making an Impact ​Every Day in USA and India 

                                        Pragathi means Progress  

Global Pragathi (USA) ( 501 C (3) organization with Tax ID: 37-1648736) works to prevent 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, 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, raising childhood obesity awareness through AAPI
• Supporting Girls On The Run of Dayton, Bicycles for All, Dayton Wolverine Track Club, 100 plus men, 100 plus women 
• Educating medical students and physicians in prevention of chronic illnesses
• Collaborating in wellness groups and symposiums and publishing newspaper articles
• Also supporting poverty alleviation work in 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 several states of India. The media link has newspaper clippings, powerpoint, videos of some of the below listed accomplishments:

• Open Defecation Free Villages - construction of  614 toilets and education of the villagers to use them
• 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 with more emphasis on girls
•  Kashireddyguda,a model village 
• Two clean drinking water plants to serve 7000 indigent people
• The SMILES Program - our unique, universal comprehensive preventive medicine program 
• The Non Communicable Chronic Disease Prevention Program in the Burgula PHC area
• Two hundred bicycles distributed to marginalized girl school students
• Sneha Menstrual hygiene program for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh
• 250 sewing machines donated to create self-employment in 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 rebuilding near Chennai.
• Construction of several classrooms in the schools
• Mahila Mandal Building constructed for village women
• Pragathi Bhavan construction
• Pragathi Rural Development Center being developed on three acres land 
• Gift of Giving program to celebrate personal milestones
• Persistent motivation of villagers  
• Collaborations with several other credible organizations such as YouSee, Vandemataram, Nirmaan and several others