TAMIL NADU WOMEN'S FORUM
"Reaching the Unreached"- Education For Liberation!
Overall plan for the project
We are planning to establish school for children (Children Day Care Centres)
in 15 villages. In each centre, we plan to cater the needs of a minimum
of 25 children in each centre.
Socio-economic situation of each village is shown as below;
1. Nedumbaram (Tiruttani- Chingleput district)
- Cobbler (Shoe makers) and Irular (Tribals)
- De-notifed communities economically backward socially down trodden religiously
out-caste
- Cobblers are land-less labourers, Daily Wage earners, and dependent on
land owners. Irular are fire-wood collectors, paddy, sheave collectors,
rat-catchers, snake-charmers, and migrant tribals.
2. Beerakuppam (Tiruttani- Chingleput district)
- Cobbler community consist of 200 families and 12 families of quarry workers
- Quarry workers, migrants, denotified communities, daily wages live with
no basic amenities, no proper government schemes for their betterment
- Quarry workers lives unsafe- Deaths and accidents are part of their life.
Blasts ammunition and stones goes with their life. Illiterates socially
and economicallydeprived sections of the society. Children and parents
live near the quarry. They are often killed due to accidents.
3. Venkattapuram (Tiruvallur District)
- Cobbler community- The cluster of cobblers in this village live without
transport electricity, health, education, land ownership and employment
- Village without health care facilities- no transportation facilities. Families
are migrants. Socially, economically, most backward.
- No school in the cluster and the primary school with the mid-day meal centre
is situated in the caste Hindu village which is 3 kms away.
4. Ulliambakkam (Arakkonam Taluk, Vellore District)
- Dalits (Paraya Segment)
- De-notified community: socially and economically downtrodden, religiously
outcaste, historically forgotten
- Landless Daily wage earners- peoples without any basic amenities illiterates.
No permanent settlers. Of late economically subjugated due to change in
pattern of cultivation. Children are forced to take up menial jobs in the
village. They are cattle reares.
5. Kaverirajapuram (Tiruttani- Chingleput district)
- Both Dalits and Irular live in the community. Few are given govermental
housing services.
- People live without basic amenities like health and education. Predominantly
land-less their daily wages are denied due to change cultivation process,
seasonal job opportunities are gone. Cash crops are encouraged.
- Dalit are landless, Irular are migrants. They surive on selling firewood.
All basic amenities are unreachable to children in the communities. They
wander along with the parents.
6. Mulvoy (Arakkonam, Vellore District)
- Dalit (Cobblers) migrants landless
- Socially deprived community/ untouchables economically backward landless
labourers
- Denial of all basic facilities. People lose their traditional jobs. Change
in the pattern of cultivation. Paddy harvesting fields are converted to
floriculture, horticulture and cash crops. Due to that, people are losing
their daily labour children are forced to take up menial child-labour jobs.
Parents carry their children to working spot and they suffer environmental
hazards.
7. Konalam (Arakkonam Taluk, Vellore District)
- Landless labourers 35 families are living in this village
- Intermittently jobs are available. Men get Rs.40/- and women get Rs.35/-
People migrate in-search of jobs and also carry their children wherever
they go.
- Meagerly paid illiterate. No facility to educate children. Economically
backward and Dalits.
8. Periyar Nagar (Tiruttani town, Chingleput District)
- Quarry workers, migrated from Salem, one of the under-developed city in
Tamil Nadu. These quarry workers live there for more than 20 years and
they move from one quarry to another whenever there is a demand for work.
- Most deprived of the society. Socially out caste.
- Children life is unsafe. They live with the parents. Quarry accidents at
times kill both parent and children.
9. Kallaru (Arakkonam Taluk, Vellore District)
- Kallaru is a center place surrounded by cluster of villages namely Arigilapadi,
Poipakkam, K.N. Kandigai people of different walks of life with various
background live around the centre.
- Quarry, brik-klin, snake-charmes Dalit community and minority muslim communities
are living
- People are migrant workers. They move from village to village in seared
of employment. Young children live under the custody of elder children.
These people belong to different community have their own socio-economic
and cultural life but economically dependent anhd socially outcaste.
10. Palavoy Village (Arakkonam Taluk, Vellore District)
- Dalit and Irular: Dalit landless laboures. Their life depends on agricultural
work. Irular are migrants. They live on collecting and selling firewood.
- Both the communities live without basic amenities. No schools, children
have to travel long distances to attend schools. Many children are school
drop-outs because of their education means travelling long distances.
- The children wander along with their parents their lives are unsafe because
they collect woods from forests.
11. Perumuchi Village (Arakkonam Taluk, Vellore District)
- Dalit community. Cobblers and Irular live in the same village besides High
Caste Hindus.
- Dalits and cobblers are landless. Their live depends on agricultural work.
A few of them are employed the factories in town. Irular are migrants and
they are isolated from the village.
- Educational facilities are available but large number of children left
under the custody of elder children when their parents go away for work
care has to be given to the children in the village.
12. Centre for Children of Commercial Sex Workers- Tiruttani
- Tiruttani and Tiruvallur Taluks of Chengleput District)-children of Commercial
Sex Workers
- Tiruttani and Thiruvallur towns are pilgrim centres. The floating populations
visit the temples in these towns. The commercial sex trade is flourishing.
Women are deprived dissedted and forced in the trade.
- The commercial sex workers sell fruits, flower and other cosmetics. They
always live with their children. The children are forced to undergo psycological
torment and their life is unsafe because of the social stigma attached
with these women. Children are deprived of education.
13. Arakkonam Town (Arakkonam is a Taluk of North Arcot District)
- A complex group of sellers from various places
- A group of people, who have been migrated in search of emplyoment are living
near the Railway station. They have no shelter and have to proper registration
for identity. They live in absolute poverty and children are force to go
for begging.
- No basic amenities- Daily wage earners live in most dangerous and defeats
contagious situation. Without proper health facility, Children are left
uncare. No proper school facilities are available.
14. Pichavakkam (Arakkonam Taluk of North Arcot District)
- Dalit Community
- The village contains 250 Dalit families living in absolute poverty. No
government schemes have emancipated their live. The schemes are unreachable.
- Land-less, daily wage earners, and dependant on land owners. Basic amenities
are out of reach if earthy and education component are terribly missing.
The parents are burded to this land lords and the children are employed
to give economic support to their family. Girl children are totally denied
of education and are forced to take care of the younger ones.
15. Thiruvalankadu (Tiruttani Block of Chengleput District)
- Irular 63 families
- Tribals, live on the Bunds of lake. No permanent shelters. Illiterates,
socially outcaste and economically observed.
- Many families are bonded labourers, children are forced to becomes cattle
reares. Rat eaters ofters migrate for emplyoment. Children are taken to
places where their parents employed. Mostly live on the patronage of the
high caste Hindus. Children life is unsafe since they wander with the parents
in the wilderness.
For further information, Contact to
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