B.YOUTH

·Develop a frame-work that clearly identifies and reduces the gapes limiting the youth, marginalized women, poor men, children and other disadvantaged groups in participating and discussion making in development activities.

·Facilitating the youth to identify and make use of their potentials for their own development.

·To create an enabling environment which will enable the youth to implement their responsibilities depending on their respective needs to active development and fight against poverty.

· To increase democracy among the youth based on peace and social justice.

C. WOMEN

·To stop all kinds of violence against women in the community.

·To create enabling environment that will enable women to implement their activities in the community depending on their needs to achieve development.

·To facilitate women to identify and make use of their potentials for their development.

·To fight against patriarchal system that is exploitative to the women.

·To build the capacity of women and empower them for fighting against poverty.

·To fight against sexism where women are considered inferior to men.

·To increase democracy among women based on peace and social justice.

This post was submitted by EVARIST THADDEY.

This post was submitted by Soma Ray.

It is a non profit , non racial, non political, non religious volontry organization.

Aim : adopt child education and avoid child labour.
Protect the aged persons from their crises. Medical Support to the rural people in communicable disease.

Transport the seriously injured persons from rural areas to eligible hospitals where they prefered on free of cost.

save the Prignant women where ever and when ever needed bu Ambulance .

Support the child education at any level belongs to widow’s family.

free education to girl child of rural areas at Pre -Kg to primary education

established one school for rural children on free of cost . Maintained with donations from local people and contribution from founder in rented building with heavy risk . If their is own building the scheme will get success as we expect .In this area we need Donations from all over the World.

Inspration: Swamy vivekanandha’s words.

This post was submitted by Dr.C.Subramanyam.

Reg.No/ Date of Reg.- 217- 18/05/1999.

Reg. Under Society Reg. Act 1860.

Working for- Prisoners, Child labour, poor women, Children,Older person, for their Education, Training Rehabilitation, Awareness, Counseling, Health and hygiene, etc.

Mobile number-09412019897

This post was submitted by Kavita Sharma.

VISION

An egalitarian just social order wherein the oppressed final equal opportunities for development to voice for their rights and act upon to achieve the same.

MISSION

Sensitising the most disadvantaged and oppressed communities to provide opportunities for development, building awareness to realise their rights and enabling them to strive for the same.

PROJECT LOCATION

CARDS’ development activities are centered around the backward villages of Gingee & Vallam Blocks of Villupuram District in Tamil Nadu.

PRINCIPLE OBJECTIVE

Empowerment of the deprived and disadvantaged people for self reliance through non-formal and continuing education.

STRATEGIES

• Awareness Building
• Initiating & Strengthening People’s Organisations
• Linking People with Support and Resource Systems
• Social Advocacy
• Networking

CHILD DEVELOPMENT

CARDS recognise that each child has an inherent right to life. And the society has the duty towards the development of the child’s personality, talents and mental, physical abilities to their fullest potential. CARDS takes up community based initiatives for ensuring these rights. The activities include campaign for immunisation, enrollment campaign, supplementary education, child labour elimination and special care for children with disabilities.

TECHNICAL EDUCATION FOR YOUTH

CARDS excels other institutions by giving efficient Technical Education for the school dropouts, poor and needy young boys and girls. It has well versed resource personnel to teach the interested candidates on servicing house-hold electrical items and also audio and video equipment.
Every year about 20 to 25 boys benefit from this and become experts. This training helps the youth for self-employment and channalize them from going astray. It is taking steps sincerely to increase the number of beneficiaries in the years to come.

WOMEN DEVELOPMENT

Women’s contribution for development form a major share but they have little resources to call their own. They are deprived and denied of their rights to life, development, protection and participation. CARDS is striving to get them organised into self help groups and provide a learning atmosphere so that they become aware of the root causes of deprivation and denial and take proactive role to secure their rights.

SMALL AND MARGINAL FARMERS ASSOCIATION

With small land holdings, the small and marginal farmers are faced with multitude of problems. The efforts to equip them with knowledge and skills on rotation of crops, multiple crops, water management and working out the feasibilities of cooperative farming are being taken up. Through non-formal & continuing education, they shall be trained to develop their management skills on regular and continuous basis.

CULTURAL PROGRAMME

CARDS have a sound cultural team comprising of 10 volunteers. The team goes to village to village for building awareness among the people on area-specific issues and problems through means of folk media. Depending on the issue prevailing in the project area, the cultural events are designed or updated. Water and sanitation, primary health care, importance of early childhood care and development, safe-motherhood, importance of education and prevention of disability are some of the areas being covered by the cultural team.

LINKING PEOPLE WITH SERVICES

Most of the rural people are non-literates and unaware of the welfare measures meant for them. CARDS as a facilitating body, strives to link the disadvantaged people with services. The Persons with Disabilities, are linked up with District Rehabilitation Services, the aged get the supportive pensions, the widows and parents of low-caste people are assisted to avail educational sponsorship for their children, the small and marginal farmers are linked up with the Block Development Office for availing agricultural implements and subsidies in procuring seeds, saplings, fertilizers and pesticides, the young people are oriented about the possibilities of going in for higher education or vocational education.

RESOURCES

CARDS profess the ideology that ‘people are the best resources for themselves’. In this context, it initiates the disadvantaged people to get organised and enables them to collectively strive for their development. CARDS identify and utilises the services of people who would work on voluntary basis. It also takes efforts to mobilise external support from individuals and organisations within and outside the country. So kindly send your recent Project guidelines, application to CARDS.

Thanking you for your kind action and fruitful cooperation in the further. I am looking forever to hearing from you soon. For further information and other details, please contact:

Yours Sincerely,

A. JOHN WILLIAMS
Secretary
Community Action for Rural Development Society (CARDS)
68-D, Adhil Complex, Gandhi Bazaar
Gingee 604 202. Villupuram District
Tamil Nadu, INDIA.
Email : jbvcards@yahoo.co.in.
Mob: – +919894191571

Registered under societies Act, Reg.No.98/2003.

Microcredit: Why India is failing

in the K R Puram slum in Bangalore, India, a group of 15 women gather in a small, muggy living room. The electricity comes and goes, turning the fan and the single bare lightbulb on and off. Flies buzz around the room, and children run in and out.
The women have borrowed $330 and meet weekly to make repayments. The loans were meant to serve as capital for them to start small businesses and, eventually, lift themselves out of poverty. But the women say the loans haven’t turned into new income.
Sitting in a circle on the floor, some sound sad and others angry. One woman has started selling firewood, but others haven’t started businesses at all. Instead, they say, the money helped them pay for urgent expenses, such as their children’s school fees.
It’s a scene that’s repeated inside dark living rooms and on parched rooftops across India. Boosted by a government mandate to keep the startup funds flowing, lenders making these small, or microcredit, loans are dutifully throwing cash at shantytown borrowers.

This post was submitted by A.John Williams.

3. Who are ARUNTHATHIYARS:
Arunthathiyars are Dalits, who are considered ‘untouchables’ in the caste-ridden Indian society. Pallar, Parayar and Arunthathiyar are the three major Dalit groups in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Among them, Arunthathiyar group is considered to be the lowest. They are also identified with different names such as Sakkiliar, Mathari, Mathiga, Arunthathiyar and Pakadai in different places. The caste system forbade them from owning land and property for thousands of years. They are landless and are traditionally associated with the task of cleaning up the dead animals, scavenging the village, and work related to animal skin and leather. While such traditional work still continues in some villages, many have taken up jobs in the match making and fireworks industries in the target area. Many Arunthathiar children below 14 years are part of the unfortunate working force in these industries. Very poor living conditions, desperate search for a job with a decent wage, and constant harassment from moneylenders and landlords are part of day-to-day life of Arunthathiyars.

4. Target Area:
The 22 villages of the rural Block of Vembakkottai, and Sivakasi in virudunagar district of Tamil Nadu, were the primary targets of SIDO. From 2005 onwards the area of operation was extended to the whole district to respond to the growing needs of this community. According to Census India 2007, the total population in Vembakkottai Panchayat Union is 86, 141 out of which 12,790 are Arunthathiyars. It includes 10,123 landless and 3,386 child labour Arunthathiyars. Only 26.4% of Arunthathiyars in Vembakkottai Block were literate and 83.3% of them were identified with severe malnutrition.

5. Approach and Strategy:
To achieve its goals, the approach of SIDO is to bring together the Arunthathiyars of different villages and build a democratic organization for Arunthathiyars that will give them social, political and economic power and in which women must play equal roles. Studies in the target area revealed that such an organization could address the problems related to untouchability, child labour, and poor health. Arunthathiyars were found suppressed and dominated by the other Dalit groups. For this reason SIDO chose to work only for and with Arunthathiars. The members or the organization realize from their experience that education, health care, and technical training will increase Arunthathiars knowledge, economic standard and bargaining power; these in turn will improve their socio-economic relationship with their oppressors and landlords in the upper castes and reduce the chances for crimes in untouchability. Basing on this realization supporting formal education, training in technical skill and health for illiterate girls, providing health care and health education to the needy and socio-political mobilization has become the main strategy SIDO.
6. Formation of SIDO:
During the time of we found in many Arunthathiyars in Virudunagar district of Tamil Nadu in 2005 revealed that a high percentage of children among Arunthatiyars is school dropouts and forced labourers in match making and fireworks industries around Sivakasi, Vembakkottai in Virudunagar district.SIDO was initiative by a volunteer Arunthathiyar youth.Targett in 22 villages in Vembakkottai union and Sivakasi Union of virutunagar District ,this small Arunthathiyar youth team mobilized the Arunthathiyars mainly through evening study programmes for students, summer study camps and cultural celebrations, daily home visit, taking arunthathiyars basic issues, conducting awareness training programmes,giving carrier guidance for all Arunthathiyar youths. In 2006 SIDO was registered as a society under the state law.
7. Present Activities;
• Running evening Tuitions Centers in dalit Arunthathiyar Villages.
• Forming Children’s parliament among the school going children.
• Forming SHG groups both men and women.
• Making AHRF information board in all Arunthathiyar villages.
• Conducting cultural performance in all Arunthathiyar villages.
• Forming youth cadar groups in village, union, taluk and district level action groups.
• Taking issue based activities. Like caste discrimination, untouchability.

This post was submitted by M.Sakthivel.

I. Background information of the NGO :

a) Name of the Organization and Address : SIDO (Social Innovative
Development Organization)
Ettakkapatti, Ethirkottai (PO)
Sivakasi (TK),
Virudhunagar Dist – 626131.
TamilNadu, India.
b) Name of the Contact Person and
designation in the Organization : M. Sakthivel. M.S.W.,
Secretary,
Mobile: 9944964046.

II. Legal Status
1. Registration : Registered under TamilNadu
Societies Registration Act 1975.

2. Registration No. : 27/2006
3. Year of Registration : 2006
4. 12A and 80G : Applied

5. FCRA Registration : Nil

1. Name of organization:
SIDO (Social Innovative Development Organization)
2. Goal of SIDO:
SIDO is a mission building a human community of Arunthathiyars, the untouchables of India. Its purpose and goal is to empower the Arunthathiyar for the eradication of untouchability and child labour that are commonly found in the target area. The goal of SIDO is to totally eradicate all human right violations. To achieve this goal SIDO is involved in mobilizing and organizing Arunthathiyars socially and politically through organizational programmes, awareness programmes, health programmes, and training programmes. Through street plays, folk art forms, audio-video aids, and cultural celebrations SIDO is continuously communicating with the target people in the process of annihilating all human right violation.

3. Who are ARUNTHATHIYARS:
Arunthathiyars are Dalits, who are considered ‘untouchables’ in the caste-ridden Indian society. Pallar, Parayar and Arunthathiyar are the three major Dalit groups in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. Among them, Arunthathiyar group is considered to be the lowest. They are also identified with different names such as Sakkiliar, Mathari, Mathiga, Arunthathiyar and Pakadai in different places. The caste system forbade them from owning land and property for thousands of years. They are landless and are traditionally associated with the task of cleaning up the dead animals, scavenging the village, and work related to animal skin and leather. While such traditional work still continues in some villages, many have taken up jobs in the match making and fireworks industries in the target area. Many Arunthathiar children below 14 years are part of the unfortunate working force in these industries. Very poor living conditions, desperate search for a job with a decent wage, and constant harassment from moneylenders and landlords are part of day-to-day life of Arunthathiyars.

4. Target Area:
The 22 villages of the rural Block of Vembakkottai, and Sivakasi in virudunagar district of Tamil Nadu, were the primary targets of SIDO. From 2005 onwards the area of operation was extended to the whole district to respond to the growing needs of this community. According to Census India 2007, the total population in Vembakkottai Panchayat Union is 86, 141 out of which 12,790 are Arunthathiyars. It includes 10,123 landless and 3,386 child labour Arunthathiyars. Only 26.4% of Arunthathiyars in Vembakkottai Block were literate and 83.3% of them were identified with severe malnutrition.

5. Approach and Strategy:
To achieve its goals, the approach of SIDO is to bring together the Arunthathiyars of different villages and build a democratic organization for Arunthathiyars that will give them social, political and economic power and in which women must play equal roles. Studies in the target area revealed that such an organization could address the problems related to untouchability, child labour, and poor health. Arunthathiyars were found suppressed and dominated by the other Dalit groups. For this reason SIDO chose to work only for and with Arunthathiars. The members or the organization realize from their experience that education, health care, and technical training will increase Arunthathiars knowledge, economic standard and bargaining power; these in turn will improve their socio-economic relationship with their oppressors and landlords in the upper castes and reduce the chances for crimes in untouchability. Basing on this realization supporting formal education, training in technical skill and health for illiterate girls, providing health care and health education to the needy and socio-political mobilization has become the main strategy SIDO.
6. Formation of SIDO:
During the time of we found in many Arunthathiyars in Virudunagar district of Tamil Nadu in 2005 revealed that a high percentage of children among Arunthatiyars is school dropouts and forced labourers in match making and fireworks industries around Sivakasi, Vembakkottai in Virudunagar district.SIDO was initiative by a volunteer Arunthathiyar youth.Targett in 22 villages in Vembakkottai union and Sivakasi Union of virutunagar District ,this small Arunthathiyar youth team mobilized the Arunthathiyars mainly through evening study programmes for students, summer study camps and cultural celebrations, daily home visit, taking arunthathiyars basic issues, conducting awareness training programmes,giving carrier guidance for all Arunthathiyar youths. In 2006 SIDO was registered as a society under the state law.
7. Present Activities;
• Running an evening Tuitions Centers in dalit Arunthathiyar Villages.
• Forming Children’s parliament among the school going children.
• Forming SHG groups both men and women.
• Making AHRF information board in all Arunthathiyar villages.
• Conducting cultural performance in all Arunthathiyar villages.
• Forming youth cadar groups in village, union, taluk and district level action groups.
• Taking issue based agitation. Like caste discrimination, untouchability.
• Conducting awareness trainings like, SC/ST Act 1989,RTI ACT. Domestic violence Act 2005, child rights, and social awareness trainings.

8.Working area.
S.No District Blocks Villages.
1 Viruthunagar Vembakkottai 1.M.Thuraisamipuram
2.Kakkivadanpatti
3.Ettakkapatti
4.Kangarsevalpatti.
5.Madathupatti
6.Vembakottai
7.Elumitchaggaipatti
8.Elayirampannai
9.Thulukkankuritchi
10.Subramaniyapuram.
11.Sithurajapuram
12.Mamsapuram
13.Muthusamipuram
2 Viruthunagar Sivakasi 1.Anaikuttam.
2.Perapatti
3.Meenampatti.
4.Chinnakkamanpatti
5.Sithurajapuram
6.Kitchanayakkanpatti.
7.Koppainaikanpatti.

9.Staff
1. Mr. Raja
2.Ms.Brinda Devi
3.Mr.Pillayarappan
4.Mrs.Perumalammal
5.Mr.Mani

This post was submitted by M.Sakthivel.

Tara Foundation is a non government organization registered in 2003. It is both an organization and a movement. Organisation because its volunteers specializing in philanthropic work share a common vision and movement because it stands determined to make a real difference in the lives of the disadvantaged.
Our work is spread throughout India where we focus on issues that demand urgent attention and follow-up action, solutions, and significant results like in (i) Elimination of Child Labour (ii) Trafficking (iii) Women Empowerment (iv) Disaster (v) Disability (vi) Environment (viii) Human Rights and (ix) Hygiene and sanitation (x) Sutainable Agriculture.
Concerned that hundreds of thousands of needy children and women in India are unable to get any assistance from the Government or charitable organisations, we attempt to fill that void also, by creating awareness among the target groups and coordinating with governments and the society.
We struggle hard to ensure legal awareness among women for their empowerment and self-reliance through several means. At the same time, we pull all resources to rescue child labour and rehabilitate them, despite constraints and limitations.
This NGO was actually formed after a few activists realized that social changes could only be ushered through continued movement and development. They prioritized issues like human rights, women empowerment, elimination of child labour and disability to launch Tara Foundation with a vision to establish a peaceful and prosperous society through participatory mechanism.
Our other work areas focus on fighting poverty, unemployment, exploitation, illiteracy, agriculture, non-conventional energy and rural technology. We are also building opportunities for children in the field of education and generating employment. People from the marginalized and oppressed sections are given immediate attention by our volunteers. Simultaneously, we organize regular brain storming sessions for income generation for the underprivileged.

This post was submitted by Pankaj Bhushan.

? NDWM made is humble beginnigs in 1985 in Tamil Nadu by Sr. Jeanne Devos, ICM.

? The Movement has spread to 23 States in India from North to South, from Central and tribal belt in 28 languages.

? The Movement has 2 million members.

Vision:
? NDWM envision a society where, domestic workers are treated with dignity and Justice, their rights are upheld, they are recognized for the contribution they make towards the economy and development , their voices are heard.
? We also envision a society where child Domestic Work is abolished and all children enjoy the right to education and full childhood.
Mission
? Dignity of Domestic work and all domestic workers.
? Justice for all domestic Workers and Workers’ rights.
? Empowerment of domestic workers. Participation of domestic workers in their struggle for justice.
? Recognizing child domestic work as child labour to be abolished and give the children the right to mainstream education.
? Crises intervention with rehabilitation, truma counseling, legal and medical aid.
? Networking on local, National and International levels.
? Prevent trafficking of women and children for forced labour.
? Work against discrimination and for equality and rights of Migrant workers.
? Influence public opinion for respect and rights for domestic work.
Aim and Objectives:
? To give dignity to Domestic work and Domestic workers.
? To obtain justice and rights for Domestic Workers and legal protection.
? To organize and to empower the women Domestic workers on issues like violence against women, poverty of women as well as gender based discrimination of women.
Objectives for CDWS
? To remove child domestic workers from the workplace.
? To improve their terms and conditions of work.
? To rehabilitate child domestic workers and reintegrate them into a Normal childhood environment.( edn for all)
? To prevent children entering in to domestic employment.

The Movement works through a three pronged response
? With the workers themselves, educating and empowering them about their rights.
? With the general public, seeking to increase awareness about the concerns of domestic workers and fighting myths to change their mind set towards positive approach.
? With the government and other official bodies
(like Labour commission, ILO, UN), lobbying for protection, legal recognition and other benefits for the workers.
Strategies
? We organize and empower the domestic workers through awareness creation and information sessions on various issues.
? We provide crisis intervention and assistance to rehabilitate and reintegrate abused/ victimized domestic workers.
? We actively lobby and campaign for the rights of domestic workers and advocate justice for them.

? We Network with other organization, like the UNO, ILO, Justice and Peace Commission, Anti- Slavery International, Human Rights Asia, Migrant Forum Asia and other Community Centers and Welfare Agencies at both the national and International levels.
Advocacy for DWS
? To recognize domestic workers as workers.
? To get them in the schedule of Minimum Wage Act.
? To get a separate bill regulating terms and conditions of service of domestic Workers.
? To get DWs included in the Bill Reg Social Security for Unorganized Labour support groups.
? Empowering methodologies.
Task forces within the Movement.
? Anti-trafficking and Migration.
? Legislation and Policy Formulation.
? Social Security
? Networking and Unionizing.
? Training and Capacity building.
? Children in domestic work.

Important day celebrated:
? 9th January- World Domestic Workers Day.
? 17th February- International Day of Hope for children.
? 8th March International Women’s Day.
? 1st May- Worker’s Day
? 12th June- Anti Child Labour Day.
? 14th November- Children’s Day.
? 16th December – Migrant day

Achievements:
? Domestic Workers has been recognized as workers and brought under the schedule of Unorganized workers at National level.
? In five states Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Maharastra DW have been brought under the Minimum Wages Act of 1948.
? In Three States Minimum wages ( Kerala and Kanataka and Andra pradesh) has been specified by the department of Labour.
? In Tamilnadu Preliminary notification has been issued on the Minimum wage for Domestic workers and final notification is awaited.
? Tamilnadu government has given Separate Welfare Board for Domestic workers.
? Tamilnadu domestic workers has been registered as trade union and avail welfare benefits.
? In some of the State the Movement has advanced to form union, register them , join them with LIC and other welfare measures.
? The Movement has also taken up the pre departure training programme for those going to overseas and repatriation of those who have returned and find difficult when they want to return.
? The Movement works with some of the embassies especially in the Middle East to help those with problem at the foreign countries.

? Awareness on child rights among various sections of people has been undertaken through street plays, film, poster, competitions, celebrations of child right days etc.
? The intervention of NDWM to high light the exploitation of children in domestic work for the last 15-20 years has made the issue of children in domestic work in public and into the various agenda of National and International bodies.
? The bill to ban child laobur in domestic work is passed needs to be fully implemented.
? Legal assistance has been provided to domestic workers and children in domestic work and bonded labour.

In 1997 Sr. Jeanne Devos led the campaign to pressure the Un to recognize domestic work as a form of contemporary slavery. Two years later, her efforts, along with similar groups in Latin America and south Africa, succeeded in getting the ILO to declare domestic work as one of the four worst forms of child labour.
2010 ILO convention will discuss the issues of domestic workers at world level.
By organizing and empowering domestic workers, influencing public opinion and lobbying the Government for their recognition as workers and for regulating the terms and conditions of service, NDWM is improving the lives of an overlooked and exploited group, both in India and Internationally.

This post was submitted by Sr. Valarmathi.

The AWARD Trust was established due to the need identified by the seven tribes in the Nilgiris District. The eight tribes in Nilgiris-District include Kasavar, Thodas, Irrulas, Kottas, Kattunaikas, Bettakurumbas, Mullakurumbas and Paniyas. The following five types of tribes “Kasavar, Kattunaikas, Paniyas, Bettakurumbas and Mullakurumbas” are concentrating in the Gudalur and Pandalur taluck of the Nilgiris District. The social structure within and inter-dependence between tribes have declined, as have traditional skills and many other aspects of their way of life, including dress, dialects and names. There can be many reasons for these changes such as education, the felt need to integrate or to be like every body else social stigma, cinema, culture or the availability of Government support.

The objective is to integrate these seven tribes into the main stream of economic and social development. Out of the 36 schedule tribe communities in the state of Tamil Nadu, eight tribes are in the Nilgiris District, have been identified as primitive population of schedule tribes exceeds 50% of the total population is declined as integrated tribes are not reached in development programs.

The AWARD Trust identified the basic needs from tribal people are
- Lack of basic education
- Personal Hygiene
- Chewing Tobacco
- Alcoholism
- Child Labour
- Early Marriage
Staffs visited the tribal village of Nellakotta Panchayat twice a month and gave them awareness on those identified problems.

Thus, AWARD Trust (Adivasi Welfare and Rural Development) was established on 21st of July 2009, and registered under the Indian Trust Act, Registration No. 226/2009. AWARD Trust founders Ms. Sobha. M (MSW) Secretary, Mr. Surendran P.R President, and Dr. Lokesha (Medical Officer) are committed to Community Development programs in Pandalur and Gudalur Taluk. The community has emerging social concerns, value of education, service learning. The need of Tribal Development is to reduce the gap between the tribal and the non-tribal population with the respect to economic, education and social status.

MISSION

• To create awareness about importance of education.
• To create a self-sustaining habit and good quality of life.
• To promote strategies and skills to obtain financial security.
• To strengthen networks and linkages between among tribal and non-tribal to foster and sustain the impact of development initiatives.
• To advocate the rights and needs of the tribal communities.

This post was submitted by sobha.m.