The organization is fortunate enough to have dynamic young Mr. Gorla Mallikarjuna as its President. Engineer by profession and qualification, he did not turn to the lucrative jobs in the engineering sector. His devotion to the social work made him to pursue Post Graduation in Social Work and this itself speaks volumes about his commitment to the society. Indeed it is hard to find a Technocrat venturing into Post Graduation in Social Sector. The technocrat turned social worker provides the leadership to the organization. Having the belief in participatory approaches, the very management of the organization, under his leadership, is moulded in the true spirit of voluntarism. He had several accolades for his yeoman service and grabbed many a appreciation for his services in the voluntary sector from both government and non government agencies.
Mr.G.Mallikarjuna aged 33 yrs old is the President of SERUDS. He is a graduate in Bachelor of Engineering from VASAVI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, Hyderabad. He is passionate in social service and started working as a social worker at the young age of 24yrs. He has compassion towards the sufferings of deprived and downtrodden sections of the society. He moved with the atrocities and discrimination of women, children, dalits and decided to support them with equity, justice and empowerment. He has been struggling to mobilize resources for the cause of poor and needy. His vision is to distribute the fruits of development to all the sections of the society.
Experience in leading SERUDS (8+ years)
- Trainer and training module developer
- Associated with livelihoods learning programs organized by Govt. of AP
- Inducted/ oriented/ mentored social work professionals
- Practitioner of participatory processes - applied/fine-tuned and practiced in a variety of contexts
- Pioneered/been part of evolution of processes of significance/consequence to development sector
- Led NGO Assessment and Development Partner Selection Processes for various projects/tasks
- Outreach of influence – more than 5000 families
- Contributor towards professionalizing development practice domain