Who We Are
SKR Pupils Welfare Society
The S.K.R. Pupils Welfare Society — formally known as the Suravarapu Kondareddy Pupils Welfare Society (SKRPWS) — is a legally registered, government-recognised non-governmental organisation (NGO) headquartered in Chimakurthy, Prakasam District, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Founded on 8th February 1999 under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, SKRPWS was established with a single, unwavering conviction: that every child born with a disability — whether deaf, intellectually challenged, physically impaired, or multiply disabled — deserves the same access to education, therapy, dignity, and opportunity as any other child. Not as charity. As a right.
For 25 years, we have acted on that conviction — quietly, persistently, and without compromise — in the villages, towns, and communities of rural Andhra Pradesh where the need is greatest and the resources are fewest.
Today, SKRPWS operates two full residential special schools, seven community programmes, and a growing network of outreach and advocacy initiatives. We serve over 10,000 beneficiaries annually — children, families, youth, and communities — across Prakasam District and beyond. But we have never lost sight of why we began: the child in the village who had no school to go to. The family who had been told there was no hope. The community that didn’t know what its disabled members were capable of.
We are SKR. And we are still that school for that child.
Our Story — From One Village to Thousands of Lives
It began not with a grant or a government scheme, but with a young man’s refusal to look away.
In the late 1990s, Suravarapu Anjaneyulu Reddy — a native of Prakasam District and a trained special educator — was returning from years of work at Uma Manovikas Centre in Kakinada and Ongole’s Manovikas Centre. He had seen what good therapeutic education could do for children with intellectual disabilities and hearing impairments. He had also seen what happened when those children received no support at all.
Back in his home district, the picture was painfully clear. Deaf children were kept indoors — hidden from neighbours, barred from schools, treated as burdens. Children with intellectual disabilities were labelled ‘mad’ and left without stimulation, therapy, or community. Their families — predominantly rural, undereducated, and economically vulnerable — had neither the awareness nor the resources to seek help. And the help, in any case, did not exist in their vicinity.
1999 — The Founding
On 8th February 1999, Suravarapu Anjaneyulu Reddy registered the S.K.R. Pupils Welfare Society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, with Registration Number 82/1999 — and opened a small classroom in Chimakurthy with 10 hearing-impaired children, donated furniture, and no funding guarantee.
The school was named in memory and honour of Suravarapu Kondareddy — a figure whose values of service, compassion, and community responsibility the founder sought to carry forward through the institution’s work.
That first classroom became a promise. And over the next 25 years, SKR kept it — expanding, deepening, and widening its reach without ever abandoning the children it started for.