I worked at Bharathi Rural Development Society (BIRDS) for a summer internship Allagadda, BIRDS is an NGO working in and around four states: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamilnadu, and Kerala. BIRDS vision is "a world where all its inhabitants live in complete harmony with each other to maintain and benefit from balanced eco-systems." BIRDS mission is to create a platform for people from all walks of life so that they are able to take necessary action for ensuring ecological stability, safeguarding human rights, eradicating poverty, ensuring a minimum standard of living, and bringing in social justice (on account of differences based on gender, disability, social and economic marginalization, and displacement). BIRDS will work only for the furtherance of its vision, mission, and objectives. BIRDS recognise that they are only a part of a bigger movement to ensure environmental stability and in the fight against poverty. Therefore, it tries to establish linkages at the organisation and community levels with different strategic developmental players (governmental and non-governmental).