Sudheer is from Andhra Pradesh and Regina from Rajasthan, two opposite geographical locations in India, yet many of our crucial life experiences appear to be written with the same ink!

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We both experienced a socio-spiritual awakening during our undergraduate days when we came face to face with exploitation, humiliation, and discrimination of people around us. In search of answers, we both first underwent theological and later legal education. We understand our faith and its practical application. Compassion is the foundation to administer justice as a means of restoration and transformation of the bruised and broken people.

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Hence Sudheer underwent special training with Rural Unit for Health and Social Affairs (RUHSA-, an auxiliary of CMC Vellore) to be personally equipped to serve. In like manner, Regina trained in therapeutic counseling. We are committed to continuous study, research, and reflection so that we balance reason and faith. To quote Bultmann, "... human plans and undertaking should be guided not merely by our own desires for happiness and security, usefulness and profit, but rather by the obedient response to the challenge of goodness, truth, and love, by obedience to the commandment of God which we humans forget in our selfishness and presumption."

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From 1984 Sudheer has been involved at the grassroots level with the Dalit communities, working in the villages of Khammam and Krishna Districts of now Telangana and the Andhra Pradesh States. This work includes synchronizing faith and action; planting seeds of compassion and service and nurturing people with hope to see them transformed and becoming agents of change and transformation in their own communities.

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In 1993 Regina's soul searching led to concrete efforts which began at Wheaton College, IL and culminated in a doctoral research at Biola University, CA on the unfreedom experienced by thousands of rural Madiga (cobbler, therefore untouchable community) in our region, to name a few, deprivation of quality education, primary health, training in skills for livelihood, and even the right to life and dignity.

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With our combined passion, legal and theological training, and commitment to community health and transformation both temporal and spiritual we have evolved viable, comprehensive, and concrete methods to IMPACT the rural Dalit communities we are working with. We consciously reach beyond the apparently less fortunate people to help those who cannot help themselves with an aim to empower, restore, and help those people who will then help people, who will yet help other people in a continuous bid to build healthy transformed communities.

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