Since inception, BIRDS is working in some of the poorest and neglected villages of rural Bangalore, facilitating improvement in the quality of the lives of the women, youth and children from the marginalized and oppressed communities like dalit, tribal and backward castes. The strategic intervention of BIRDS include organising the poor, increasing their critical consciousness and promoting leadership among the poor so that they challenge oppressive forces that keep them impoverished.

The organisation is guided by its Governing Board with members having varied and relevant expertise in the development field and the programmes are carried out by a team of competent staff led by the Executive Director who is a qualified professional social worker.

Name of the Diocese – ‘Bangalore Archdiocese’

A combination of socio-economic and cultural factors has kept these people impoverished and bonded for generations. As a result of their poverty conditions, children from these communities/hamlets are put into severe hardship of working in hazardous conditions denied of their rightful stake of childhood, education and other minimum requirements essential for their growth.

The congregation has 32 branches spread over the four southern states with 210 professed religious brothers involved in missionary and social apostolates.