Main Activities for 2007

Quality Education

• Conducting enrolment campaign in 25 villages
  
  
• Establishing 2 ECE centers with community participation
  
  
• Establishing 3 residential bridge centers for children not attending schools through SSA
  
  
• Conducting AIE centre for children not attending regular school
  
  
• Running of EGS centre
  
  
• Assessing the competency of children in reading, writing and arithmetic in 18 schools
  
  
• Developing curriculum and TLM in appropriation with children competency level
  
  
• Up scaling the learning’s of children competency through SSA in 14 blocks
  
  
• Formation of new clubs and strengthening of existing children clubs in schools
  
  
• Facilitating children to collect theme based information and documenting it through experience sharing

Livelihood Education

• Running of iLEAD centre
  
  
• Identification of other trades for imparting training
  
  
• Employability training for 420 youths
  
  
• Formation of farmers association in 25 project villages
  
  
• Conducting awareness through road shows on livelihood opportunities
  
  
• Conducting EDP trainings for members of SHGs
  
  
• Organising seminars for youth
  
  
• Establishing linkage with potential employers for placements
  
  
• Initiation of on farm/ off farm activities for small and marginal farmers and landless coolies
  
  
• Implementation of watershed project through NABARD/ Oxfarm, UK funding
  

Inclusive Education

• Organizing awareness campaign on education for children with disabilities in 10 blocks of Dindigul district
  
  
• Conducting survey and assessment camps in 10 blocks
  
  
• Facilitating access to services and assistive devices to CWD/PWD in collaboration with government and other NGOs
  
  
• Establishing resource centres in 10 blocks
  
  
• Promoting day care centres in 10 blocks
  
  
• Establishing inclusive play park in all the resource centres
  
  
• Organizing and conducting training programs for parents and community
  
  
• Formation and strengthening of self help groups for persons with disabilities in 10 blocks
  
  
• Mainstreaming all capable children in regular schools
  
  
• Providing preparatory and special education for children with severe disabilities
  
  
• Providing livelihood training for persons with disabilities
  

Women's Empowerment and Education

• Formation of 50 self help groups among the left out women
  
  
• Strengthening of 30 existing SHGs
  
  
• Capacity building on group concept for SHG members
  
  
• Establishing linkages with banks and other financial institutions
  
  
• Promotion of village organization through networking of SHGs
  
  
• Increase women participation in VEDCs

Resource Mobilisation

• Preparatory activities for resource mobilisation (printing of communication material, website and brochure)
  
  
• Developing proposals and follow-up
  
  
• Conducting workshops on leveraging resources from beneficiaries, government agencies, banks and donors
  
  
• Conducting preparatory workshop for resource mobilisation strategizing activities
  
  
• Initiate other innovative activities and events
  
  
• Organizing workshops and seminars to interface between target groups, government officials and other funding sources
  
  
• Organizing trainings for project staff on preparation of proposals and other techniques of resource mobilization
  
  
• Writing project proposals to raise funds for thrust areas in respective government departments and other sources
  
  
• Establishing linkages/networks with funding agencies and government departments