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