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Keywords
Adivasi, tribal, rural, community, primary, elementary, government
Geographical Location
Tiruvallur, Tamilnadu
Languages
Tamil, English
Philosophy/Beliefs
Bharathi Trust is a non-profit development organization working for the cause of upliftment and empowerment of Irula Tribal communities living in the interior pockets of Thiruvallur district. Since 1990, it has been working among the Irula communities in more than 60 villages spread over 5 Taluks of the District. It has been conducting a number of development programs such as Sangam formation, awareness camps, liaison work with government for obtaining development schemes, day care services, motivation centers for eradication of child labor, etc.
Bharathi Trust believes that the community has to ultimately take part in the education process. Without this involvement education cannot succeed.
Work Description
Parents from the various communities are realizing why education is important. The community has been involved fully in starting the schools. The community provides space, gives 50% of the running expenses of the school in terms of materials and helps with any manual work including building the school. They also ensure that the teachers come regularly and the children attend regularly. Working on new methodologies/alternative syllabus is one aspect of education. The trust has represented nearly 100 villages with no schools at all and spoken with the government to bring in at-least one teacher per school there. Once the school exists the trust can influence what type of education the school should provide.
More than 500 children have been motivated to go to government schools by working with the villagers, where almost 100% of the children had not gone to school. The syllabus for children is based on where they live - on the edge of the forest or near the sea. The schools and motivational centers have introduced various alternative methodologies based on their backgrounds. All the teaching materials at the centers are prepared the material using local resources. Some of the teachers have been called by the government teachers to help them to prepare teaching material.
Recently the trust formed the Avayyar Education resource center for different communities to participate and share experiences and materials. The trust hopes to bring communities together via this resource center and break out of caste conflicts. The trust's community work included organizing people to fight for their rights, to get their basic necessities and implement schemes that are available especially for tribal communities.
Contact Information
Siddamma, Bharati Trust
184/14, III Cross Street, Jayanagar
Thiruvallur, Tamil Nadu 602 001
TeleFax: 04116-262607
Website Links
Presentation at January 2003 conference
Profile in Revive 2003
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