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The rural people of Nellore live in abject poverty. Seventy percent live on less than $2 a day. In a region where agriculture is the predominant industry, most try to earn a living as seasonal agricultural laborers. However, because of low wages and unmet basic needs, borrowing is all too common, often leading to crippling burdens of debt. Additionally, a high illiteracy rate coupled with the caste system – the ancient hierarchies in Indian social order – together conspire to hold the poor in poverty. 

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In sum, the sole aim of the Agnes Multipurpose Development Society is to transform the lives of the marginalized and disadvantaged in multiple ways so that they may live a life of dignity, free of the ills of destitute poverty. The Society accomplishes all of its work with donations from friends and depends on their generosity and solidarity.

‘Truly, I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me’  

Matthew 25:40