Mamatha Makkala Mandira is a Voluntary Organization which works for the socio economic development of people, environment and community.


It all started when Mr. B M Doddiah, the secretary of the organization visualized the pathetic condition of the slum children of Bangalore. The children had no opportunity for education for their abject condition. The fonder took altruistic steps to help the poor women – the mother of the childrens to get proper source of income for their economic development and better education opportunity for their children. The optimistic thought and attitude of secretary towards the women and children pave way to start something for them.


Mamatha Makkala Mandira (MMM) a registered society under Karnataka Societies Registration Act 1960 has come a long way since its humble beginnings as a local organization in 1990. Mamatha Makkala Mandira works both in urban and rural areas implementing various government and non government sponsored projects on health, sanitation, women empowerment, skill up gradation, income generation, watershed management, sustainable agriculture and social forestry.


Mamatha Makkala Mandira has intervened to "reach to the unreached" through "participatory learning and action" and a strategy for sustainable living by,


  1. Developing environmental sustainability among the victims of modern pace of development, deforestation, displacement and environment degradation through:

  • Community based natural resource management.
  • Capacity building for environmental management by environmental education/sensitization with the culture dimension.
  • Putting women as core care taker of environment.
  • Community based health care in the remote and unserved areas through.
  • Primary curative services and appropriate referral system.
  • Preventive and promotive care through culturally-adopted IEC/health education.
  • School health program.
  • Maintenance by local people/village health committees.
  • Popularizing traditional health practices.
  • Integrated development for sustainable livelihood for women and people living below poverty line through:
  • Orientation and creation of SHGs
  • Training for appropriate income-generating activities.


II. Elementary education to the non-school going, poor and drop-out children through: 

  • Community based curriculum framed in local idiom.


III. Training and Consultancy to SHGs on  
  • Community diagnosis & need assessment.
  • Project formulation, appraisal and evaluation.
  • Management of community based health care & development projects.



Mamatha Makkala Mandira is registered under 80G, 12A, FCRA and is able to receive grants from national and international donor agencies