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Deeds may refer to:
  • Deed, a legal instrument used to grant a right
  • DEEDS (Development Education Society), an Indian non-governmental organization
  • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, a 1936 comedy film starring Gary Cooper
  • Mr. Deeds, a 2002 remake of Mr Deeds Goes to Town starring Adam Sandler
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DEEDS (Development Education Society) is an Indian Non-Governmental Organisation established in 1989. It is a non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian organisation which operates in the Ponnai area of Tamil Nadu in Southern India. Its guiding commitment is to educate, and improve conditions for those who form the vulnerable sections of society.

Programmes are delivered by a partnership between DEEDS, the local community and government agencies.

Educational improvement

Programmes include...
  • Early childhood education
  • Pre-school education
  • Non-formal education
  • Formal education
  • Distant education
  • Technical and vocational education
  • Adult education
  • Collegiate education
  • Quality of life through health improvement

Community health education

Community health programmes include...
  • Environment and ecological promotion
  • Nutrition education cum services
  • Immunization
  • Reproductive and child health programme
  • Promotion of herbal garden and herbal medicine
  • HIV/AIDS prevention programme
  • Alcoholic and de-addiction services
  • Coordination with Government Primary Health Centres
  • Periodical medical check-ups and treatment with referral services
  • Training for grass root health workers

Poverty alleviation activities

This programme is mainly focused on utilizing the available local resources as well as enhancing skills for managing resources through a sustainable livelihood approach.
  • Agro-based livelihood activities
  • Animal husbandry programme
  • Micro enterprises
  • Credit units – people's financial institutions
  • Entrepreneurship training
  • Cooperative business undertaking
  • Promotion of self-help groups
  • Watershed management

Building the local organization

DEEDS aims to nurture and develop self-government principles among the deprived community, despite various barriers in the social system such as caste, multi-linguistic, multi-religious communities etc... Through democratisation and human rights, this can be promoted at the community level. Sensitisation and advocacy on various developmental areas are given focus. To build a strong local organization DEEDS promotes the following local bodies:
  • Women's associations (sanghas)
  • Farmers' association
  • Village Development Coordination Committee
  • Youth association
  • Children's club
  • Credit and cooperative units

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Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 comedy film, based on the story Opera Hat by Clarence Budington Kelland. The film was written by Kelland and Robert Riskin, and directed by Frank Capra. It starred Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur.
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Mr. Deeds is a 2002 comedy film starring Adam Sandler and Winona Ryder, and is a remake of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. The movie also features Peter Gallagher, John Turturro and Steve Buscemi, with small roles by John McEnroe and Al Sharpton
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Property law
Part of the common law series
Acquisition of property
Gift  · Adverse possession  · Deed
Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property
Alienation  · Bailment  · License
Estates in land
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Education encompasses teaching and learning specific skills, and also something less tangible but more profound: the imparting of knowledge, positive judgment and well-developed wisdom.
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non-governmental organization (NGO) is a legally constituted organization created by private persons or organizations with no participation or representation of any government.
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Nonsectarian, in its most literal sense, refers to a lack of sectarianism. The term is also more narrowly used to describe private educational institutions or other organizations not affiliated with or restricted to a particular religious denomination.
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Tamil Nadu (Tamil: தமிழ்நாடு pronunciation  
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This article is about the phase of human development known as childhood. For the Michael Jackson song, see Childhood (song).


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In 1948, in its constitution, the World Health Organization (WHO) defined health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" [1].
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Community health, a field within public health, is a discipline that concerns itself with the study and betterment of the health characteristics of communities. While the term community can be broadly defined, community health tends to focus on geographic areas rather than people
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Ecology (also known as Oekologie, Okology, or Oekology[1],from Greek: οίκος, oikos, "household"; and λόγος, logos
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A herbal is a book, often illustrated, that describes the appearance, medicinal properties, and other characteristics of plants used in herbal medicine.

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Medicine is the science and "" of maintaining and/or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of patients. The term is derived from the Latin ars medicina meaning the art of healing.
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Sustainability is a characteristic of a process or state that can be maintained at a certain level indefinitely. The term, in its environmental usage, refers to the potential longevity of vital human ecological support systems, such as the planet's climatic system, systems of
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Animal husbandry, also called animal science, stockbreeding or simple husbandry, is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock.

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Twelve-step programs

Recovery programs using Alcoholics Anonymous' twelve steps and twelve traditions either in their original form or by changing only the alcohol-specific references:
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Social structure is a term frequently used in sociology and more specifically in social theory — yet rarely defined or clearly conceptualised (Jary and Jary 1991, Abercrombie et al 2000).
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Caste systems are traditional, hereditary systems of social restriction and social stratification, enforced by law or common practice, based on endogamy, , economic status, race and ethnicity.
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Democratization (British English: Democratisation) is the transition to a more democratic political regime. It may be the transition from an authoritarian regime to a partial democracy, transition from authoritarianism to a full democracy or transition from a
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Human rights refers to "the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.
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