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Women’s empowerment by employment generation in Chennai, India We have established a Women’s Cottage Unit in partnership with Murugappa Shelter Trust in Thirumullaivoyal Village, Chennai, India, for rural women who are the beneficiaries of our 29 houses which we built for the rural families in year 2000 and year 2005. The aim of the project is to train and employ 25 women in
Bio-degradable eco-friendly disposable paper cups production. We
have supplied machineries for the production of eco-friendly paper
cups. 25 women have been trained, 9 of which are directly employed
to produce paper cups. There is one disabled man employed too. The
women are able to produce about 10,000 cups every day, The leakage
and wastage percentage of the cups produced is a meager 1% when
compared to the 3% leakage found in cups produced by other
manufacturers. The women have been able to market the products
produced by the Cottage Unit. They approached various Industrial
canteens, marriage caterers and hospitals. The companies who
are interested to purchase from them are:
These companies had entered agreement with MCI for the supply of paper cups for one year from June 2006 to May 2007. The Indian Railway need about 700,000 cups every month, and Aavin, a major dairy farm needs about 500,000 cups every month in the Chennai city alone. They are willing to give this contract to MCI , if they are equipped to supply this much quantity. When funds become available, ASHRAM will continue its financial support so that they can expand the Murugappa Cottage Unit and employ an additional 25 women. MST also conducts the case study for 5 women beneficiaries which will focus on the improvement of the lifestyle, personality development, financial status and attitude of the neighbours and family members. Case Study
Victoria Armstrong Memorial School, Nilgris, India Although the government of India does provide some schools for tribal children in Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, they are mostly of poor quality, the education they give is insufficient to enable the children to proceed to the mainstream schools in the area. As a result very few tribal people get entry to secondary schools or beyond. Victoria Armstrong Memorial School (VAMS) project established in 2003 by Nilgiris Adivasi Welfare Association in Nilgiris, India, in order to provide a good educational background for the tribal children of Nilgiris Hill in Tamil Nadu, India. The last three years have seen growth at a phenomenal pace. The children have become more confident, communicative and began to evolve creatively. As non tribal children have also been accepted the effort to integrate tribal and non tribal children has worked well and serve as a preparation for tribal children to enter into the mainstream of education when they leave the VAMS.
The school started with standard I, Lower and Upper Kindergartens. A new standard was added every year in order to provide continuing education for the children already in the school. The running cost is covered by charging fees. Most tribal children seem able to meet these, but if they cannot NAWA gives them a bursary. There are now 58 tribal and 25 non tribal children in standard I, II, III and IV, and LKG and UKG. The standard I-IV are housed in VAMS and Kindergartens are in rooms in the NAWA administrative building. Accommodation is extremely tight and in some cases there are two classes in one room. To improve the situation, and accommodate children up to standard VII, 9 additional classrooms and a staff room, which does not at present exist will be required. This requires building on a new site, which has been identified adjacent to the existing site. ASHRAM International is participating in the extension of VAMS.
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