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Bharathi Trust
Bharathi Trust is a non-profit development organisation 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 spreading over 5 Taluks of the District. It has been conducting a number of development programmes such as Sangam formation, awareness camps, liaison work with government for obtaining development schemes, day care services, motivation centres for eradication of child labour, etc.
Bharathi Trust was started by Siddamma, the director of the Trust. Siddamma started her association with these people about six years back. This happened when a group of villages from this community approached her to help them out with their problems. At that time she was residing in Madras. In the process of helping them out, when she visited the village, she realized that a lot more needed to be done for these people. She had to develop the villager's confidence in her if she had to do something for them. This she did by staying with the villagers for almost two years during which she learnt of their problems. She organized cultural programmes, school for children, and other motivational programmes, which were oriented towards getting the community together. She also acted as their voice against the forces that were torturing the villagers. She also gave them a workable knowledge of dealing with the local officials so that they could be better equipped to take care of their own problems.
In the process of doing this she realized that there were many more Irula villages, which badly needed her support. This led to her activities being spread over to sixty villages in these six years. This also led her to the formation of the organization called Bharathi Trust through which she could do her job more efficiently since managing many villages single handedly would be an uphill task.
Bharathi Trust, in the process of developing the Irula community wants to see to it that the children of the Irula community get educated so that in future they do not face problems that had been faced by the earlier generations. The objective of the trust is to set up schools in as many villages as possible in the near future.
Bharathi Trust had been running three model schools in different villages over the last few years which was primarily done with the help of local support and small funding that Siddamma could draw from CRY. They are currently implementing a project for setting up schools in 11 villages, covering 150 families and 307 children. This project is being supported by Asha.
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