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What we do

What we do

Over the last 24 years, Institute for social awareness and rural development has successfully implemented major projects and programmes. Here are just a few of them:

SEWING CENTRE

SEWING BROUGHT TORN LIVES BACK TOGETHER

Our training is specifically designed to support destitute widows, single mothers and young women. In the last ten years many women have been trained to various levels of competence. They are then provided with their own sewing machines so they can get Job in the garment industries and also work in their own homes to earn sufficient secure income to support themselves and their families.

ENGAGING CHILDREN IN THEIR EDUCATION

GIVING CHILDREN THE ROUTE TO A BETTER LIFE

Ten adjacent villages of the poorest sort are selected each year & children brought together to receive qualitative supplementary education. Because of their poverty, their marginalization and illiterate parents the children do not fare well at the local schools. We offered additional support and education through evening tuition. The tuition's are assisted through college students who are paid a small honorarium, which in turn helps them to pay their own college fees. On average, 233 children are helped every year through evening tuition's and school essentials such as bags, notebooks, sandals, etc. We lift them to very acceptable standards for later life and further education.

CENTER FOR HOPE

Group of women tailors established their own co-op to create sustainable income by dealing directly with the factories and so avoiding predatory middlemen.

LEND A HAND TO THE HANDLOOMS

PROVIDING QUALITY WOODEN HANDLOOMS AND SILK THREADS

The looms are installed in the small homes and so take up the whole accommodation space with the family sleeping underneath each loom. The communities already have inherited loom skills but these are enhanced through extra training where needed. In the past the looms were owned by middle-men who trapped the weavers in poverty. Through our self-sustaining programme we support the weaver families to work independently with their own looms.

FINANCIAL STABILITY THROUGH DIARY FARMING

COW REARING PROJECT:

Rural women beneficiaries and their families have been benefitted from the purchase of an in-milk cow. We give each woman two cows to ensure a supply of milk throughout the year. Training is given in enhanced husbandry and regular checks made by veterinary inspectors. On occasion the cows have turned out to be pregnant, which is a great bonus. It is a well established fact that milk cow rearing is an occupation which provides regular income through sale of milk. This income will be utilized mainly for education and health care of children and to support poverty by purchase of food items and other household requirements.

AWARNESS ON MENSURAL HYGIENE

Sexual Health Training & Provision: The very poor children attending the Tuition programmes are at very high risk of sexual exploitation. We therefore support with quality teaching equipment to assist their pioneering safeguarding programmes. Additionally the older girls and the young trainees have had to use old rags during menstruation which has often caused serious vaginal infection. Our monthly programme provides sanitary napkins to youngsters.

EMPOWERMENT THROUGH COCONUTS

COCONUT LEAVES AND FIBRE PROGRAMMES

Coconut trees can be rented from local plantation owners and the workers then nurse and farm the trees, harvesting the leaves, the coconuts and sap. The coconuts are broken open to provide milk, flesh, and fibre and the outer shell can also be used. We have provided hand-powered machines so that villagers can make saleable rope from the coconuts’ coir fibre. Other women beneficiaries weave the leaves into many profitable products.

CHARCOAL BURNERS TO ENTERPRENEURS

ALTERNATIVE LIVELIHOOD FOR CHARCOAL BURNERS :

Kariyapatti, India, encounters more bare patches than the eye catching lush green landscapes. Not only has it turned into a sanctuary for charcoal burners with devastating effects, but it is also a poverty haven. Even when Charcoal burning is hazardous, residents of Kariyapatti can’t give it up because they doesn’t have an alternative source of income. Our skill training sewing centre for hope has opened doors for women who are from very unstable economy backgrounds and work as charcoal burners. These women were trained in basic and advanced tailoring skills. Our Sewing training has been their safe haven as their sustainable skill being developed during this training and within a period of six months they take up tailoring as an alternative livelihood. Whilst in training period, We has also provided a monthly income to the trainee to support their families. The Tailoring skill training program has opened its doors for women charcoal burners to Entrepreneurs.

COVID-19 RELIEF

RESPONSE TO COVID-19 RELIEF

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown had given way to an acute sense of uncertainty and vulnerability; especially amongst informal sector workers. Informal sector workers in both urban and rural communities lack job security and social security and this had worsened due to the lockdown with many workers losing their jobs.In such a scenario, RICH team dedicatedly worked in a wide variety of waysby ensuring that relief and aid was delivered to 1775 families / 270 children around Tamil Nadu District by providing Humanitarian Boxes for COVID affected individuals who were home quarantined and those who were undergoing treatment in Government hospitals, gloves for carrying the dead bodies ,Medical Kit for Rural children, also counselling to address the mental health of Women / Children.

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