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VAIGAI Trust
Nature and Society are the inseparable entities in the world. Man & Material are the vital components of these two. The impacts of both human and nature interference together are creating lot of success efforts and also certain negative outcomes. The significant impacts and influence of natural resources among the surrounding community is to be considered and we must performing our efforts on preserving, protecting and conserving the surrounding watering /natural resources for the well being and sustainable future. Thus the VAIGAI Trust (Voluntary Action for Integrated Global Awareness and Innovation) is emerged to engendered voluntary actions for global awareness through innovative efforts. It involves the need based welfare, development initiatives in a most appropriate methods, besides with community participation.
Mission
Utilizing the available Natural Resources through community participation with mutual benefit perspective in order to achieve the Social and Natural well being.
Demography of Working Area
VAIGAI Trust is working at 4 blocks in Dindigul district of Tamilnadu. It covers over 1,28,065 population 71 % are rural marginalized women. The main income source of our working area is agriculture and about 42 % population is below poverty line. Hilly and barren landscape area is covered and the people are strongly bound together with cultural myths and misconception. Most of our working areas are remote in nature and far from medical accessibility and poor transport facility.
Intention
- To create awareness on proper utilization of natural resources
- To empower the working community by using locally based available resources
- To initiate productive measures to reach the Outreach
- To network, federate man, material resources for sustainable development
- To utilize the Man, Material and Natural resources effectively
- Natural resource management
- Environmental awareness and Bio-diversity conservation
- Maintaining and Preserving the River-banks Eco systems
- Concentrating on Child Rights (promoting / ensuring holistic childhood development)
- Involving the intermediate livelihood measures of the Tsunami affected areas through the promotion of Coastal eco-system
- Providing appropriate methods for empowering rural marginalized women community
- Involving the activities on promoting the rural women's health and child care practices
- Providing emotional and necessary support structures to the un-employed youths and rural poor adolescents
- Managing the natural resources and utilizing it properly
- Mobilizing Community efforts with mutual benefits
- Attitudinal change of Target groups on Productive outcomes
- Maximizing the approaches and Minimizing the negative impacts
Managerial Competency
In order to achieve the above said intention, VAIGAI Trust has the set of personnel who are rendering their invaluable experiences and involving vigorous tasks for the further development. Teamwork and dynamism are making us in progressive path.
Our Executive Board comprised 7 personals those are eminent personality in social, development activities. The Advisory Board comprised 12 members from different fields and more than 25 years of experience in handling of environmental, social issues.
Further, the organization comprises the resource team with scientists, environmentalists, social activists, retired govt. officials, and experts from various fields such as health, agriculture, commerce & trade, law, education etc.,
Capabilities
For performing its various accomplishments, VAIGAI Trust has the following capabilities which moves the trust in a progressive path..
- Affiliated with International River Network (IRN)
- Member organization of National River Authority Council
- Pioneer organization in Water Resource Management
- Resource Center for Tamilnadu Water Protection NGO Network
- A Information Resource Unit for Nilakottai block
Programs an overview
- Initiating Networking Activities for Protecting Rivers in Tamilnadu
- Coordinating to address the Child Right issues and ensuring the participation at State level
- Ensuring / Promoting Environmental Education to School Students and youth community
- Generating Mass level Awareness programs to address the pollution of water, land and air by the influence of Factories and Industries.
- Promoting Advocacy & Lobbying for (LPG - Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization)
- Engendering awareness and training activities on Natural farming, Modern Agriculture
- Promoting the Sustainable Livelihoods on Tsunami affected areas through forestation (planting Mangrove trees) and maintain coastal eco-system.
- Establishing the Resource Center for Environmental Information System (ENVIS)
- Formation of Child Groups among the Children in order to make the Children's Collective efforts for ensuring / promoting the Child Rights
- Formation of Farmers Clubs in 17 working villages
- Formation of Women Self Help Groups and assisting for their sustainable empowerment
- Conducting several studies and research works, PRAs and data base creation of Socio-economic condition and livelihood structures of the working community.
