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Name: Avvai Village Welfare Society
Contact Person: K. Krishna Kumar
Contact Details
Address:
Avvai
Village Welfare Society,
260, Public Office Road,
Vellipalayam,
Nagapattinam - 611 001
Tamil Nadu
Tel: 4365 - 248998
E-Mail:
avvaikk@rediffmail.com
avvaikk@yahoo.com
Background VisionMission
Background
AVVAI is a reputed non-governmental voluntary organisation working in the field of education, health, women empowerment and community development since 1976. Now, the project area extends to Thiruvarur, Nagapattinam and Villupuram districts in Tamil Nadu.
Ms. Ambujam, a Gandhian and a disciple of Shri. Vinoba Bhave founded AVVAI in 1976. She saw that the landless labourers who are given free lands under the Bhoodhan Movement could not hold on to them due to ignorance. They were accustomed to being indentured servants and not as agriculturists or landowners. Their illiteracy was the greatest contributory factor to this ignorance. She decided to save the forthcoming generations from this fate.
She founded AVVAI to help these people sustain the benefits they have got and to improve them socially, economically and culturally.
Vision
Development through Education to all.
Mission
To promote egalitarian society were disparities like religion, caste, financial background are forgotten and everyone gets an equitable and just opportunity to come up in life.
Area of Operation
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State(s)
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District(s)
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Blocks and mandals
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Number of villages
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Tamilnadu
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Nagapattinam
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4
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587 |
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Thiruvarur |
2 |
234 |
Sectors
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Community micro projects
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Child right protection
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Community development
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Tsunami rehabilitation
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Quality education
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Inclusive education
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Livelihood education
- Women empowerment
Sources of Funding
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Project name
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Source of funding
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Main activities
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Equitable rehabilitation of tsunami victims |
DFID and AeA |
Construction of child care centres, nutrition, school renovation, cash for work, land desalination, plantation, women empowerment and livelihood education |
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Education |
Aide et Action |
Education to the poor children |
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Mahalir Thittam |
Government of Tamil Nadu |
Capacity building of Self Help Groups |
| Rehabilitation |
Department of women and child development, New Delhi |
Shelter, food, counselling and rehabilitation for the destitute and deserted women |
| Adopt-a-granny |
Help Age International, London, UK |
Community based rehabilitation of the elders by providing food grains and counselling |
| Old age home |
Department of Social Justice and Empowerment, New Delhi |
Shelter, food, counselling and rehabilitation for the destitute and deserted elders
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| Adopt-a-granny |
Help Age India |
Community based rehabilitation of the elders by providing loans for taking small income generation programmes like petty trades, goat rearing and milch animals |
| Women and child health |
Reproductive Child Health Care Programme, Gandhigram |
Awareness screening camp and follow up programme for the women on RTI/STI |
| AIDS intervention Programme |
Tamilnadu State AIDS Control Society, Chennai |
Awareness and intervention programme for the women in prostitution |
| De-addiction |
Department of Social Justice and Empowerment, New Delhi |
Awareness, Screening camp, Medical treatment and follow-up programme for the Drug Addiction and Alcoholics |
| Short stay home |
Department of Social Justice and Empowerment, New Delhi |
Day care center for the aged |
| PC scheme |
Central Social Welfare Board, New Delhi |
Counselling for the Family Problems |
| Vocational education |
Human Resource Development, New Delhi |
Providing skill training on Computers
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| Old aged home |
The State Social Welfare Board, Chennai |
Shelter, food, counselling and for the destitute and deserted elders
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| Day care centre |
Central Social Welfare Board, New Delhi |
Creche center for the children |
Development Thinking and Strategy of the Organisation
Avvai concentrates on right-based system of approach i.e. educating rights of the people and facilitating to obtain the support from respective departments. It also focuses on sustainability and community monitoring system.
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