Village Reconstruction Organization

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Village Reconstruction Organization

Abbreviation	VRO
Established	1969; 55 years ago (1969)
Founder	Michael Windey
Headquarters	Pass Road, Pedakakani Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
Coordinates	16°19′49.02″N 80°29′11.28″E / 16.3302833°N 80.4864667°E / 16.3302833; 80.4864667
President	Cletus Daisy
Director	Peter Daniel
Website	vroindia.org

Village Reconstruction Organization is a non-governmental organization in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India. The organization was founded by Belgian Jesuit Michael A. Windey and is supported largely by European organizations and donor cities.^[1]

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,^[2] 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.^[3]

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.

• 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).
• Sustainable Development. Theoretische Konzeption und Fallbeispiel.. Seminar work by Tobias Schmitt, University of Tübingen, geographical institute (SS 1997), available via VRO Deutschland eV.
• 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.

• Official website