Projects 09
- Women's Development
- Agriculture Development
- World Women's Day
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- Environment Development
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- ICT based Life Long Learning
- Life Long Learning
- E-Governance and Social Capital
- Various services offered through VKCs
- NABARD Watershed Development
- Community Drinking Water Purification Plant
- Seed Production
- Vidiyal Received Nasscom Award
- Mobile for Good Awards 2015’
- Theni District Farmers Goat Producer Company Limited
- Open Education Resource
- L3F Experince sharing
- Community meeting with WABAG
- Gender Training
- Farmers Producer Company - FPC
Vision & Mission
- VIDIYAL envisages a state of model community living at which the poor and marginalized people will be socially, Politically, Economically empowered.
- Organising the people, providing Education and creating opportunities to enble them to solve thier problemsby themselves for sustained development.
Women Development
SELF HELP GROUPS
GIRL CHILD PROTECTION
VOCATIONAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT
WOMEN INCOME GENERATION ACTIVITIES
Vocational and Skill Development We started this program in 1991. VIDIYAL conducts vocational skill development training to adolescent girls for creating self employment opportunities. The skills trained and its particulars are shown in the following table. |
| Name of the Skill | Course Duration | No. of girls trained in 2007-2008 |
| Computer Basics | 6 months of one year | 70 |
| Typewriting | 3 months | 20 |
| Tailoring | 6 months | 100 |
| Simple Household Chemicals (soap powder, candle making) | 10 days | 200 |
| Food Processing | 10 days | 50 |
Except for Simple Chemicals making training, VIDIYAL borne the expenses and conducted on its own funding. For Simple Chemicals training, for the year 2007-2008, NABARD provided financial assistance.
VIDIYAL selected these two programs as an empowering measures for women folk. We know that the limits of a welfare-oriented response to the growing crisis are now well recognized. Alternatively, many development agencies are increasing their emphasis on assisting women to secure income through their own efforts. Such approaches are often categorized as ‘income-generating activities’ and cover initiatives as diverse as small business promotion, cooperative undertakings, job creation schemes, sewing circles, credit and savings group and youth training programs. So how VIDIYAL defines ‘income-generation’? It is sometimes argued that education and health provision, legal and political changes, and global economics all affect the abilities of people secure an income. From this stems the confusion in the use of the term ‘income-generation’. According to VIDIYAL, income-generating activities’ will be considered those initiatives that affect the economic aspects of people’s lives through the use of economic tools such as credit. Other types of support affecting women’s production are considered complementary to income-generating activities. For example, these might include child care or basic services provision and labour-saving technologies.
From this stand point, VIDIYAL wishes to have the following characteristics in its income generation activities
Work directly in the community
Simplify application procedures
Extend credit quickly
Do not initially require books and complex business plans
Do not require guarantees that would eliminate most potential candidates
Work with existing micro-business or help start others that are appropriate in the community
Focus on the local market
Extend small short-term loans primarily for working capital
Charge interest rates at the market rate or higher