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MILESTONE

Supplementary Education for the Dalit Children – 1988 – 1991 (4 years)

 Ensuring Educational Rights of Children

  • Covered 350 children in 5 villages with literacy programme and
  • Achieved cent per cent enrollment of children into schools
 

Non-formal education to the Out-of-School Children – 1991 – 1993 (2 years)

Literacy for the Out-of-School Children

  • Covered 300 children each year in 10 backward villages and
  • Functional literacy was taught for the out-of-school children
 

Summer Camp 1994 – 1998 (5 years)

Promoting Educational Rights of School-final Children from Dalit Community

  • 254 dalit students from the school-final stage were covered each year and
  • Of the 254 attended the Summer Camps, 221 were promoted to higher education.

NEAC – National Environment Awareness Campaign – 1996 onwards . . . (17 years)

Protecting and Promoting the Environment

  • Through campaign on specific theme, educated the different groups and communities on issues pertaining to the environment. Target communities/groups:
    • - School Children,
    • - Teaching community
    • - Small and marginal farmers,
    • - Village leaders and
    • - General public.

Campaign on Girl Child Rights – 1998 – 1999 (1 year)

Promoting Girl Child Rights

  • Public rally,
  • Door-to-door survey,
  • Family counselling,
  • Enrolled girl children into formal schools,
  • 259 out-of-school girl children were enrolled and
  • 79 school dropouts were mainstreamed into the regular schools.

CBR – Community Based Rehabilitation for Children with Disabilities – 1996 - 2001 (6 years)

Ensuring Early Childhood Care & Education for the Children with Disabilities  

  • Family-based Care for the below 10 years (46 children),
  • Transitional Home Care for the 11 – 18 years (67 children) and
  • Community Sensitization – 20 village Panchayats (approx. 30000 people).

Water & Sanitation – 2002 – 2003 (1 year)

Potable Water to the Village People

  • 10 villages covered,
  • Formation & strengthening of WATSAN Committees in 10 villages and
  • Installation of Bore Wells in 10 villages.

Formation & Strengthening of Women SHGs – 2003 onwards (10 years)

Empowerment of women for collective bargaining power

  • 27 village Panchayats covered,
  • Membership raised to 523 in 27 WSHGs,
  • Solving local issues, family disputes and
  • Promoting Savings & Thriftiness.

IDEA – Indo-Dutch Education Aid – 2002 - 2009 (8 years)

Educational Sponsorship for the Poor Children

  • Every year 25 most needy children were supported to continue formal education and
  • Given School fee, hostel fee, school uniform, learning materials.

Sericulture Initiative  – 2006 - 2009 (4 years)

Alleviating poverty through promoting alternatives to the Small and Marginal Farmers

  • 20 Families with PWDs,
  • Small holdings were supported (Melvaalai and Adukkam are the 2 villages covered) and
  • Technical and financial aid was extended.

ARMDS Social Housing  – 2012 & 2013

Affordable Housing for the Homeless Urban Poor for a Dignified Life

  • 70 homeless rural poor families were supported to build concrete houses.

VAZHIKAATTUM THITTAM  – 2011 onwards  (2 years)

Empowering the PWDs

  1. Mugaiyur Block - 63 village Panchayats            
  2. Kanai Block  - 51 village Panchayats  
  3. Thirukovilur Block ­ 52 village Panchayats            
  4. Kandamangalam -  45 village Panchayats

 

Salient Features

  • Identifying Welfare Workers for Differently-Abled Persons (WWDAPs) in each Panchayat to work as a facilitator and one WODAP (Welfare Organiser for the Differently Abled) for each Block to work as coordinator,
  • Training the 211 WWDAPs and 4 WODAPs on nuances of prevention and management of disability,
  • Undertaking of needs assessment survey/camps,
  • Linking the PWDs with the service providing systems and
  • Promoting the rights of the Persons with Disabilities.