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| The Activities – empowerment through education and organisation |
Women empowerment
- Organising women into Sangams and affiliating the Sangams with national level Federation and international level Movement
- Conducting awareness campaigns and education programmes against domestic violence and gender discrimination
- Imparting 12-month ‘nursing assistant’ training and 12-month computer diploma course to girls to make them economically self reliant
- Conducting health camps for women, guidance and counselling camps for families and programmes for adolescent girls
- Organising capacity building programmes and micro credit projects for the economic empowerment of rural women
- Facilitating the active participation and involvement of women and girls in Gram Sabha Meetings
Child Rights
- Campaigning for awareness on the importance of educating children, female infanticide, infant mortality, reenrolment of school dropouts, child labour problems, child rights violations, etc.
- Liberating and rehabilitating child labourers
- Publishing ‘Nalai’, the Tamil quarterly magazine on child rights
- Maintaining rapport with government officials for facilitating the equitable distribution of special benefits to women and children
- Promoting child rights activities through the programme unit ‘Child Rights Campaign – Tamil Nadu’
Disabilities
- Rendering referral service to Government Hospitals and conducting medial camps in health issues like leprosy, TB, polio, blindness, etc.
- Promoting awareness campaigns against industrial pollution, deforestation, degradation and depletion of water bodies and proliferation of plastic materials
Environmental protection
- Organising village associations, public meetings, school intervention programmes, replanting programmes, etc. for environmental protection
- Publishing ‘Nizhal’, the Tamil environmental quarterly and regular environmental status reports
- Exposing environmental issues through mass media, advocacy campaigns and fact finding missions
- Providing legal support to nature clubs and activists
- Coordinating nature protection activities through ‘Tamil Nadu Environmental Council (TNEC)’
- Campaigning against excess usage of chemical fertilisers and pesticides
- Training people in sustainable agricultural practices, natural farming methods, vermi-culture, compost and bio fertiliser production, etc.
- Coordinating sustainable agriculture activities through ‘Ecological and Sustainable Agriculture Institute (ESAI)’
Tsunami related activities
- Rushing relief materials like food, clothes, medicines, etc. to the victims of natural calamities, like the Tsunami
- Reclaiming Tsunami affected agricultural lands through organic farming and mangrove afforestation
- Providing technical training in computer studies, nursing, boat-engine repairing, tailoring, two wheeler mechanism, domestic appliances repairing, etc. to Tsunami affected adolescents at Karaikal Community College, Puducheri
- Constructing temporary shelters and organising health camps for people and their cattle in Tsunami affected areas
Networking and advocacy
- Participating in international network of sustainable agricultural initiatives as an active member of LEISA (Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture)
- Eliminating child labour as the working committee member of CACL-TN (Campaign Against Child Labour - Tamil Nadu)
- Eliminating female infanticide as an active member of CASSA (Campaign Against Sex Selective Abortion)
- Working in association with CACT (Campaign Against Child Trafficking)
- Providing consultancy service to TAFSC (Tribal Associations for Fifth Schedule Campaign)
- Working as an active and founding member of FPCP (Forum for Promotion of Child Participation)
- Actively supporting SAM (Social Action Movement) of Tamil Nadu – Pondicherry
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