SETWIN

Project Brief: Mobilize & organize the rural poor especially marginalized woman & generate awareness in the field of education, socio-economic, legal and health care, self employment scheme with a view to making communities stand on their own feet.
Project Type: Non-Formal Educational Centers (description)
Primary Focus: dropouts (description)

Secondary Focus: other

Area: Rural
Supporting Chapter Contact: Silicon Valley
Status: completed - requirements ended
Project Steward: Jay Swaminathan
Project Partner(s): P V Selvam
Other Contacts:
Project Address: , Setwin Society,,2-7-8C/1 E.B. Colony,,,
TAMIL NADU  624208
Tel:
Stewarding Chapter: Silicon Valley
Dec 2005Silicon ValleyUSD 2948
Sep 2004Silicon ValleyUSD 2830
Mar 2004Silicon ValleyUSD 2817
Dec 2003Silicon ValleyUSD 2742
Dec 2002Silicon ValleyUSD 5650

Total = $16987

The project focuses on the primary school dropouts or the belated enrollment of children in the age range of 5-12 years. These children belong to the Paraiyar and Sakkilar castes who are also called as dalits.
At the beginning of the proposed project, we will open 10 basic Non Formal Centers at 10 villages with a minimum of 20 children per center. After assessing of the progress of these centers, we will extend the same to another 10 villages next year and gradually cover all of our service site which comprises of about 50 hamlets. The objective of the project is twofold-
(1) To reintegrate children who have dropped out due to familial/economic pressures back into mainstream schooling
(2) To encourage a habit of schoolgoing in those villages so remote as to not have access to any mainstream schools.


Full Description
Set- Win was established in 1990 in the Nilakottai Taluk of Dindigul District, Tamilnadu. Its chief coordinator is PV Selvam, who works along with a team of facilitators, who are mainly high school educated, motivated villagers selected from the community Setwin services.
The center aims to mobilize and organize the rural poor with special focus on marginalized woman and generate awareness through development process in the field of education, socio-economic, legal and health care, self employment scheme with a view to making communities stand on their own feet. Its objective is to organize the rural poor into groups.
These groups would serve both to discharge social responsibilities and also to involve the members in self planned activities.

Full Description