Women Empowerment through Leadership, Finance, Action, Reforms and Education
(WELFARE TRUST)
Registered under Trust registration Act of Tamilnadu, India – Reg No. 233/BK4
Vision
A society where women face no injustice on gender basis and are empowered to have education, better health, and economic independence; having proper awareness of their fundamental rights, have right to make decisions affecting their lives and strive for positive social change.
Mission
Welfare Trust is committed to strive for women rights and empowerment, ending violence and discrimination against women. We work to connect powerless women to knowledge
and resources that can improve their lives.
Target Group
The major target group are rural women, agriculture laborers, construction workers, widows, poor house wives, pregnant women, adolescent girls, child laborers and rural girls who are deprived of their education and social rights.
Major Objectives of the Trust
* Empowerment of rural women through Education, Awareness Generation and capacity building.
* Human rights and especially Women Rights with special reference to female foeticide.
* Economic Empowerment of women through Self – Help groups, Micro finance, cottage industries and agriculture.
* Eradication of Child Labor
* AIDS Awareness campaigns
* Reproductive and Child care Programs
* Environment preservation and Disaster Management.
Major Activities of the Trust
Self Help Groups (SHG)
SHG formation and nurturing has been one of the key activity areas for promoting women empowerment. Welfare Trust has been constantly putting in efforts for formation of SHG among women as platform for discussion and development of opinion and action on the development issues of the Women Community. These groups have their own norms and functions. These groups are constantly engaged in discussion on social and economic issues as girl child education, health, and enterprise development along with micro credit activities.
Education and Training (Capacity Building)
Welfare Trust believes that empowerment of women is possible only through education and training. The Trust provides Orientation among volunteers and instructors on issues as pedagogy and teaching methodology to facilitate their roles in Non Formal Education, Women rights education, and IT education to poor rural girls. The training methodologies focus on skills of multi grade classroom teaching, community participation, Change Education and on motivational inputs. The objective of the training is to provide a special focus on gender sensitization to improve the participation of the girls in the system of education.
The Trust currently focus on
* Providing Tuition (coaching center) to school dropouts and poor rural children.
* Computer education to poor rural girls
Sensitization on Child labor Issues
The Trust focus on sensitizing the parents of working children on the educational and physical rights of the children, laws constituted to check child labor and the provision of punishment for employers employing child labor and Issues of child trafficking and atrocities on children , Juvenile, are the prime focus of this program. The stakeholders are oriented on education and psychological needs of the children.
HIV/AIDS Awareness Camps
Awareness Camp are organized to orient rural women on the issues of HIV/AIDS for development of Conceptual clarity and creation of positive attitude among the community to realize HIV/AIDS as an health hazard adversely affecting the indicators of human development (income, poverty and earning capabilities) and a backdrop against individual liberties and rights. The Trust employs counselors to make this program effective.
Reproductive and Child Health Programs
The aim of this program is to help rural women to understand the importance of health in their lives. The target group of this program is pregnant women and adolescent girls. The Trust conducts health camps once in a quarter in villages. Welfare Trust has published the following education materials to propagate knowledge our community health, ANC, PNC and child health:
* Post Natal care methods
* Guidelines to Health workers
* Health worker Diary.
To promote the awareness our community health, our organization has established linkages with Primary Health Centre and Government Hospital to avail government resources such as treating minor ailment, ANC checkups, referral services to High Risk Cases, first aid measures.
Human Rights & Women Rights
Human rights should apply to all people - men, women and children irrespective of caste, creed, religion and region. However, women often denied of their basic rights that form part of everyday life such as freedom of movement, access to education and participation in decision-making process. There are many barriers to equality between the sexes. Important factors include gender stereotyping violence against women, social and cultural attitudes, and discriminating laws and practices. Women throughout the world live in constant fear and conditions of deprivation very often for their simple reason that they are women. For Indian women violence takes the form of foeticide, infanticide, dowry related murders, battering among others. What escalates violence is the widespread sanction for violence against women. Through such sanctions women are controlled and subjugated. Welfare Trust involves in generating awareness among the common people of their basic Fundamental Rights and sensitizes women on various laws with regard to these problems.
Environment Preservation & Disaster Management
Awareness on conservation of natural resources is essential to achieve the perspective future for the coming generation. The concept of awareness program is to prepare the mind of the people that they must leave this plant as a better place for others to like because they lived in it.
Welfare trust plays a significant role in generating awareness on disaster management and preparedness through Community preparedness and mitigation, Forecasting and warning, Land use planning and Relief and rehabilitation.
Agriculture and Cottage industries
We help poor women in setting up micro enterprises through Micro credits programs and provide entrepreneurial counseling and training to help them to establish small scale and cottage industries and Dairy farms. We also focus on Agriculture Extension activities like sustainable agriculture development, vermicompost awareness campaigns ,” a home a tree campaigns”, Mushroom Cultivation Training and Medicinal Plant Cultivation Training .Training programs on Sustainable agricultural development focus on ecological agricultural practices, crop rotation, rain water harvesting and pest management . Resource persons from Agricultural and Horticulture departments discuss and demonstrate various modern techniques related to agriculture.
Vocational Training
The Trust provides comprehensive training on various subjects, ranging from sewing and embroidery, driving to computer education. These are Women’s Self Sufficiency activities and are in-house projects initiated and managed by the Trust as an effort to open up job opportunities for the girls and women to stand on their own.
Partnering with us
We invite well wishers, philanthropist and Social workers who would like to join hands with us in this social cause. You can help us to succeed in the following activities.
Education
Gift notebooks and textbooks to needy poor girls. It’s difficult to imagine going to school without notebooks and textbooks! And yet, hundred of poor girls across our area cannot afford the ‘luxury’ of paying for their books. These poor girls may never make it in life simply because they cannot revise or learn what they heard at school! Gift to children with notebooks and textbooks and make winning a reality!
Child basket
A Bagful of Goodies! This thoughtful gift hamper will set a needy school girl’s heart singing with delight! With a trendy collection of gifts that is sure to come in handy during school time, this is that every child will cherish!
Your gift hamper will contain:
* A small new school bag
* A pencil box complete with pencils, ruler and eraser
* Crayons to spark off creativity
* A tiffin carrier for food
Computer Education
Swing open the doors of technology with this fabulous gift! A computer education gives a poor girl the key to a better future. Your gift will usher in a whole new era of modernity in remote villages, creating a generation of children with the power of transform and entire community! Help us to establish a computer training institute which would help us to train atleast 50 poor rural girls every 6 months.
Cows
Truly, an investment for the years ahead! A cow is a great gift for poor women & girls and their families. Cows give up to 8 liters of milk a day! Doctors say that milk is a truly well balanced diet containing calcium, vitamins, proteins, minerals, fats and even carbohydrates! So, your unique gift will give these poor girls all the nutrients they need to grow up! What’s more, there will even be enough for their parents to sell at market and make their livelihood.
A Pair of Goats
One of our most popular gifts, goats are givers all the way! Milk for growing girl child, manure for agriculture and additional income for the family-a goat gives it all! Best of all, goats breed easily and can survive harsh climates with minimal care.
Tailoring
This is a unique way of poor women helping them themselves. The busy whirring of a tailoring machine spells hope for a needy young woman. Tailoring is the perfect profession for young girls in rural India who need to make it on their own. A sewing machine ensures that she can work from home, giving her the time to take care of the house and yet giving her the financial independence she needs to stand on her own feet!
Driving School
Steer a hardworking and enterprising young woman into a brand new future! With the country growing in leaps and bounds, there is a growing demand for reliable drivers in various industries. At the same time, there are hundreds of young men and women in need of jobs and all they need in training! Help us to establish a driving school through which we generate money which can be used in women development activities.
Health
A Disease free community! Making cleanliness a part of everyday life! Surprise a community in Theni District, Tamil Nadu with a very unusual gift- a toilet! Hundreds of people here fall prey to diseases like Hepatitis A, diarrhoea, cholera and typhoid simply because human waste has not been managed well. Your gift will change all that! Construct a toilet and introduce a family to good health and dignity.
Medical Camps
Emergency Medical Help stand up in the hour of need! Step in when are needed most with this heart – warning gift! Work a miracle in the lives of needy families struggling to pay hefty medical bills and keep their loved ones alive. Help us to run medical camps to help the poor rural women to become aware of various diseases and their preventive mechanisms. Help us to organize health Camps to make parenthood and childhood a happy, healthy experience! Gift 50 children in a community with free medical check-ups, immunization, supplementary nutrition and medicines. Kick start a series of awareness campaigns in communities and teach parents to take better care of their children. After all, prevention is always better than cure!
Help us construct wells
Change the destiny of a whole community in Theni District. A well for a self help group can transform their families by providing sufficient water for agriculture and livestock! By recharging ground water reserves and well, your gift will make dry, arid areas bloom with life and even provide enough water for personal needs!
Mechanized Pump
A Delightful Deluge! Work a miracle in the dry and arid region of Theni District! Surprise communities with a whopper of a gift-fresh flowing water at their fingertips! Far beneath the ground is an abundance of pure water and yet communities suffer because they cannot reach it. Thousands full prey to water- borne sicknesses caused by unclean water. Gift a pump and watch communities gush with good health!
Saplings
What a healthy way to beat those hunger pangs! Gift a family in Theni District with fruit saplings like Guava, Sapotta, Mango and Pomegranate! Fruits also provide growing girls with essential nutrients. For needy girls, whose parents are unable to provide them with healthy meals, your gift is the perfect solution to overcoming the dangers of malnutrition.
Moral Support and guidance
We request your support not only in terms of monetary gifts but also in the form of guidance and direction. We welcome your suggestions and valuable ideas which would help us to serve the community better.
Partner with us by sending your suggestions and monetary gifts to "welfare Trust "
Account No : 30354405365
State Bank of India (5145)
Welfare Trust
15/ 16 PTR Channel road
Chinnamanur - 625515.
Theni District
Tamil Nadu, India.
You can make your gift through Cheques. Please make your cheques payable to Welfare Trust, payable at Chinnamanur, Theni District, Tamilnadu, India or credit your gift into the following Bank account.,
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