The guiding principle of the organisation is to HELP and HARNESS the hapless (unfortunate and hopeless), and to HARMONIZE their lives through sustainable social and human developmental activity.

Legal Status of CHORD

CHORD is a legal entity. It is a registered body, registered under the Public Societies Registration Act, 1350.

• Registered under Public Societies Registration Act 1350 (F) Regn.No.988 of Hyderabad, A.P.
• Registered under Section 12 AA of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
• Exempted under Section 80 G of the income Tax Act.
• Registered with the Ministry of Home Affairs under Section 6(1) of the FCR Act, 1976.

Activities and Projects of CHORD

• Project Aashirwad (Blessing): Rehabilitates about 250 child labourers every year with the aim of mainstreaming them and imparting them technical education to enable them to become self reliant individuals 
• Project Aasha (Hope): Training centre for educating and empowering mothers of these unfortunate children. Modeld on the lines of Self Help Group program. The mothers of the children have been mobilized as mother's committies to enlighten and train them and to mobilize them into a collective and cohesive group. So that they can toghter as group work towards livellyhood oppurtunities and there by achieving economic libaration and empowerment 
• Project- Abhyaas (Learning): Residential Secondary Bridge School and Vocational Training Centre for mainstreamed children. The aim of this project is to levelyhood skills and basic academic qualification to unable the children to become self-reliant individuals.
• Project- Adarsh (Model): A professional advocacy and campaign unit actively engaged in sensitizing people against child labour and child abuse. CHORD is member of the state level CSO's net work against child labour launched by ILO-IPEC
• Project New Aashirwad: Rehabilitates and mainstreams 100 out of school slum children in Balakrishna nagar, Balanagar mandal
  
  CHORD has a nucleus of experts on child rights issues imparting and sensitizing social action groups, schools, educational institutions, clubs, corporate employees and the like. We have highlighted the issue of child labour by making documentary films in lime quarries in Piduguralla, Guntur District, fishermen children in West Godavari District, tribal children in Krishna District, and on working children in stone crushers surrounding Hyderabad District.

Slum education projects: Neighborhood slums of Kukatpally and Qutbullapur Municipalties of Rangareddy district are catered to by CHORD for both formal and non-formal education for children below the age of 14. These slums also serve as peripheral catchment for referring working children to the rehabilitation center 'Aashirwad'.
Non-formal education for fishermen children at Vemuladeevi at West Godavari District

Accolades:

1. Received award from the government of Andhra Pradesh in the year 2004 for meritorious services in the field of child labor elimination
2. E-TV and Teja TV popular channels of the electronic media have telecast special feature programs of Chord's yeomen sevices to the communities its been serving for the last seven years. 
3. Instrumental in involving several big corporate houses into social intiatives against child labor. To name a few Dr.Reddy's Laborataries, Microsoft India, ITC-IBD, Motorola India Electronics Ltd, Gas Authority India Limited (GAIL), Alkabeer, Rane brakes, Essolifts, Khaitan electronics, Tibrevala etc.,
4. Instrumental in involving nearly 20 major schools in Hyderabad, several students associations and civil society organisations in child rights advocacy and campaignsg against child labor through rallies, meetings and workshops.
5. Highlighted the incidence of child labor in several official National and International forums against child labor through documentary films named the specter of child labor in A.P.short in some of the interior areas like limestone quarries in Peduguralla Guntur district, pisci culture tanks in West Godavari districts and tribal children in Krishna districts. 
6. CHORD and its activities were published as special features in several leading Newspapers and magzines like Eanadu, Vaartha, and Times of India, Deccon Chronicle and Suprabhatam.
7. Member of the state level-working group of the CSO's net work launched by ILO-IPEC.
8. Organised several innovative events, Rallies, workshops and awareness campaignes on the issue of child labor 

Projects in Pipeline:

• Girl Child project, 'Aashadeep' for both domestic and non-domestic children at Rangareddy District.
• Street children rehabilitation project
• English medium residential school for orphans and destitute children

Other Details:

1. Name of the founder: Suman Christopher Malladi 
2. Foundation year of the organisation: 1997 
3. Number of staff-technical and administrative: 59 (Including Volunteers)