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| headquarters = Pass Road, [[Pedakakani]]<br />[[Guntur]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], India<br />
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| leader_title = President<br />
| leader_name = Cletus Daisy<br />
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| name = Village Reconstruction Organization<br />
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| founder = Michael Windey<br />
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| established = {{Start date and age|1969}}<br />
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'''Village Reconstruction Organization''' is a [[non-governmental organization]] in [[Guntur]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], India. The organization was founded by [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[Jesuit]] Michael A. Windey and is supported largely by [[Europe]]an organizations and donor cities.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://vroindia.org/|title=VRO – Village Reconstruction Organisation – India|website=vroindia.org|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-02-24}}</ref><br />
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VRO primarily supports impoverished, structurally weak, and unregistered villages in the coastal regions of Southeast [[India]]. Since 1969, it has helped rebuild 505 of these villages,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.vro-dorfbau.de/anlagen/VRO_dorfliste2.pdf|title=Built VRO villages since 1969 in Orissa, Andhra N+S, Wardha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu N+S|access-date=23 February 2016}}</ref> many of which have been destroyed by natural catastrophes. The organization assists with the construction of villages, and facilities within the villages: homes, schools, childcare and community centres, especially among the [[dalits]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.zum-tod-lachen.at/index.php/das-projekt|title=Das Projekt|website=www.zum-tod-lachen.at|language=de-de|access-date=2017-02-24}}</ref><br />
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As well as providing villagers with advice, VRO supplies funding towards the creation of training and health centers, along with programs for the support of women. <br />
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[[File:Pater Michael Windey SJ, Gründer der VRO.jpg|thumb|Michael A. Windey]]<br />
== Bibliography ==<br />
* Josef Hainz. (Hrsg.): ''Feuer muß brennen. Dörfer für Indien.''. For Michael A. Windey, SJ, on the occasion of his 75th birthday on 28 April 1996, by his friends in Europe. Hardcover, Kelkheim-Eppenhain, self publisher, 2nd ed. (1996).<br />
* ''Sustainable Development. Theoretische Konzeption und Fallbeispiel.''. Seminar work by Tobias Schmitt, University of Tübingen, geographical institute (SS 1997), available via VRO Deutschland eV.<br />
* Felix Duffner: ''Nutzung der Wasserkraft durch Wasserräder.'' Institute for Fluid Dynamics and Flow Machines at the University of Fridericana, Karlsruhe (TH), August 1993, available through VRO Deutschland eV.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{Official website|http://vroindia.org/}}<br />
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[[Category:Development charities based in India]]<br />
[[Category:Community-building organizations]]<br />
[[Category:Homelessness charities]]<br />
[[Category:Jesuit development centres]]<br />
[[Category:Organizations established in 1971]]<br />
[[Category:1971 establishments in Andhra Pradesh]]</div>DigitalKush