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ANNUAL REPORT 2016 - 2017

ATSWA TRUST

No 8, M.P.A. Church Road,

M.G.R.Nagar, Thirumullaivoyal,

Chennai-600 062, Tamilnadu State,

India

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CONTENTS

Introduction

ATSWA Rehabilitation Centre for Children at Risk

After School Support for Poor Dalit and Tribal Children

Rural Women Empowerment

Disability - Community Based Rehabilitation for the Disabled

Vocational training

Environment Protection and organic Farming

Disaster Relief

Conclusion

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Introduction

We thank God almighty for

giving a fruitful year of service to

the poor and downtrodden. We

have been blessed immensely

by God as we have been able

to carry out many useful services

to the needy. We were able to

provide excellent services to the

Girl children affected HIV and

have been appreciated by the

Child Welfare committee of

Chittoor District. This is the only

residential care home for HIV

infected girls in Chittoor district

and we are very proud of this service to the district. Our focus has been on the

poor dalits, tribal people, disabled and women and we were able to carry out

specified services to them. The vocational training for the disabled people at

Redhills at Chennai has been progressing very well and is a source of joy for the

disabled people as they are able to get good training at the Centre. We thank

all the donors, organisations and CSR sections of Tech Mahindra and Club

Mahindra for their support. Of this the most notable has been the support

received from Habitat for Humanity India & Eicher Foundation in constructing 150

toilet cum bathrooms for the low income group people in Thiruvottriur and

construction of 15 new houses and repair of 25 houses for the Irula Tribal people

at Sadaiyan Kuppam,Thiruvettriour, in Chennai Tamil Nadu. This has given us a

new direction in our services and we believe that we will add new dimensions to

our services for the poor and downtrodden.

Sincerely

Seva.S.A.Chelladurai

President - ATSWA Trust

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ATSWA Rehabilitation Centre for Children At Risk

ATSWA Rehabilitation Centre

for Children at risk is a home for

HIV infected and affected girls

whose parents, either or are

both are HIV positive or who

could have succumbed the

dreaded HIV/AIDS. The

children are drawn from

several areas not just

Sathyavedu Mandal but even

as far as Thirupathi as the aim of

the centre to provide a caring

home with all facilities to the

HIV infected and affected girls who are vulnerable and are also at risk. The home

was brought on as an institution which could bring a change in the lives of not just

the HIV infected and affected girls but also the parents, as well as the community

in which they live. Some or even a sizeable numbers of mothers are female sex

workers, and it was decided to counter and reduce the spread of HIV infection

in the area as many female sex workers eventually turn out to be HIV positive and

then perish later. The home was to be for daughters of commercial sex workers

to prevent them from becoming sex workers and it was approved in April 2011

but with a slightly modified theme, that would accommodate the girls whose

parents are HIV positive either

living or deceased and that the

home would accommodate 60

HIV infected/affected girls.

The objective of the

Programme is to provide

comprehensive care and

support for HIV infected and

affected girl children and to

ensure improved health status

and also to help their families

and their siblings in the community to have regular income through micro credit

based income generation programmes. The Project has been approved for 60

children.

Currently there are 63 Children in the home. Of them 39 are HIV Negative and 24

children are HIV positive. They attend different school due to age and language

as this area is a bilingual area where people speak Telugu and Tamil.

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a. Programmes i. Education

S.no Educational institution Number of

Children

Classes Medium of Instruction

1. Balwadi / Creche - Madanambedu 2 Telugu

2. Madanambedu MPP school 17 1 to 5th Telugu

3. Madanambedu ZP High School 33 6th to 10th English/Telugu mediums

4. Pudukuppam ZPH School 9 6th to 10th Tamil medium

5. Sathyavedu Government Junior College 1 11th Telugu Medium

6. Uthukottai Govt Ht Sec School 1 11th Tamil Medium

Total 63

The children fare well in education as care is taken to provide after school tuitions for

them at home. This ensures good academic progress .

ii. Health Care for Home Children.

This is the most important programme next to the feeding programme of the Home as it

is a special home. Care is taken to ensure that every HIV positive Child is specially taken

care of concerning the intake of ARV drugs, CD4 testing, intake of supplementary

nutrition etc. Similarly the HIV negative children are cared for in the manner best possible

for them.

Visit to Government Hospital Thirupathi and David Reeds Hospital Yerpedu.

Children who are HIV positive are taken to Government Hospital Thirupathi and to David

Reeds hospital at Yerpedu in the vehicle of the organization for checkup, CD4 testing,

receipt of ARV drugs and food supplements. At the David Reeds hospital a special

network programme is arranged for the Positive people and the Doctors and health care

personnel discuss issues concerning them and provide required counseling. Visits are also

made to the Government hospital at Sathyavedu for any treatment concerning these

children. This is a regular health care programme of the home and a total of 34 visits

were made in the academic year 2016-2017 to the Government Hospital at thirupathi,

David Reeds Hospital and to government Hospital at Sathyavedu.

In addition to this a Doctor visits the home every month for Medical Check up

General Medical Camp: This year five General medical camps were conducted in the

year and people

from the public,

home children

and their parents

participate and

benefit from this

programme. The

programme is very

beneficial

especially to the Parents/Guardians of the children

of the Residential and non residential care

programme. Depending upon the place participants ranging from 45 to 130 attend the

camps.

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Medical Camps

S.no Place of the Camp Dates Children Parents & Public Total

Male Female

1. KNH Home Madanambedu 26.04.2016 63 21 46 130

2. KNH Home Madanambedu 20-06-2016 63 12 43 118

3. KNH Home Madanambedu 27-07-2016 63 14 30 107

4. KNH Home Madanambedu 11-10-2016 63 20 33 116

5 KNH Home Madanambedu 06-03-2017 63 24 41 108

Awareness programmes on HIV/AIDS, TB, Leprosy and ill health conditions. Regular

Awareness programmes on HIV/AIDS, TB, Leprosy

and ill health conditions

are conducted in the

community as well as in

the meetings organized

at the Home. In these

programmes community

people are taught about

the dangers of

contracting the diseases ,

the precautions to be

taken, and the treatment

that is to be followed in

the event of contracting

them. The programmes

are of interactive in

nature and helps the

community members to

clear their doubts. An average of 50 people attend the

programme.

Health Awareness Camps S.no Place of the

Camp Dates Subject Resource

person

Public

Male Female Total

1. KNH Home Madanambedu

26-04-2016 HIV, TB, White discharge in women,

clean and Green , healthy food intake

Dr.Anandan,Asha Nurse, Latha and Abilavathi

17 39 56

2. KNH Home Madanambedu

15-09-2016 HIV, TB, White discharge in women, clean and Green , healthy food intake

Director, Secretary, Latha and Abilavathi

15 37 42

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3. KNH Home Madanambedu

12.11.2016 HIV, TB, White discharge in women, clean and Green , healthy food intake

Dr.Anandan,Asha Nurse, Latha and Abilavathi

21 26 47

4.

KNH Home Madanambedu

13-02-2017 HIV, TB, White discharge in women, clean and Green , healthy food intake

Dr.Ramesh,A.Ajantha –Nurse, Latha and Abilavathi.

35 63 98

iii. Facilities at home.

The children are provided Bunker cots and coir mattresses and

pillows and sheets for their use. This provides the children with

comfort to sleep. Good nutritious food is provided to the

children and the Home staff take good care of them in every

possible way. Sports and games facilities are provided for

children and the ample space before the home enables

children to run and play around.

iv. Excursions

This being the last leg of the financial year the

annual excursion takes place during this period. This

time too the

excursion was

taken up and on

19th February 2017

The children

visited

Mamallapurum an

important 9th

century Pallava

Port about 60+ kms south of Chennai. Later they visited

the Madras Museum Egmore and then the Beach and

returned home Both the home children as well as HIV boys under community support

took part in the programme. Everyone returned safe.

v. Celebrations

Important days such as

Independence and Republic Days as well

as Religious holidays such as Christmas,

Deepavali are celebrated with much

fanfare to bring joy to the children. Outsiders

such as People from the Rotary clubs,

Philanthropists willingly come and take part in

the programmes.

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Christmas Programme

All the home children, their parents and other

family members, all the Community special

children and their mothers, local community

members, school children attended the

celebration on 20th December 2016. Cultural

programs were staged by children. Christmas gifts

were presented to Children. Christmas lunch –

Chicken Biriyani was served to everyone. It was a

day of rejoicing for the children and the parents&

guardians, local leaders and general public

appreciated the presentation of the children.

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Independence Day was celebrated in the home on 15th August 2016 by hoisting the

national flag after the children returned from

school after celebrating Independence

Day. The children were in the best and a

child read out a short history of the freedom

struggle and sweets were distributed to the

children after the flag hoisting. The children

were provided special food “Chicken

Biriyani” for the lunch

Republic Day

The 67th Republic day of the nation was

celebrated with enthusiasm and National

spirit . The national flag was hoisted and

importance of the day was shared with the

children. The children were given sweets and

special lunch was served for all the inmates of

the home.

2. Non Residential Programmes for HIV Positive boys in the Community

The HIV Positive boys in the community

who come under our non residential

support are provided with school

educational kits, school uniforms and

other required materials and tuition

facilities are

arranged at their

places locally to

help them in their

studies. They are

invited to

participate in the Christmas programme and are provided

Christmas Dress and gifts with the home children. Once in a

year they are brought together for a time to relax and enrich

their experiences. In order to help them become independent

they are provided vocational training while they are undergoing

school studies and this

includes Cell phone repairs, computer training, two

wheeler mechanism. This training provides them the

confidence that they can earn themselves without

any difficulty. AS they are the extended family

members of KNH ATSWA Rehabilitation centre for

children at risk they regularly participate in the

annual excursion. This year too they went to see

important places in Chennai on 19th February 2016.

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3. Community Outreach Programmes of the centre

i. Free Food Provisions for 60 families

This programme has been initiated to

help the parents/Guardians of the home

children who are very poor and who are

very weak to work so that they would

have food to eat. This is because they

generally don’t get jobs to work as they

are HIV and as a result suffer in poverty

which affects them badly as they have

to take proper food to take the ARV

drugs. The Parents/Guardians are called

for a meeting at the Home to distribute the food grains which consists of 10Kg Rice, 3Kg

Dhall, 1Kg Oil 1 Kg Sugar, 2 kg Salt, 1kg Chillie powder, 1kg other masala items and also

200ml Coconut oil.

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ii. Income generation Programme – for parents/guardians of home children

Ten parents/Guardians are selected

every year out of the 60 to extend a

support of Rs 5,000/- towards starting a

self Employment income generation

venture to enable them to generate

income for their families so that this

would help them in someway apart

from the food provisions. Most of them-

32 people went in for raising Goats that

require no tough tasks or investment s

but that which guarantees good returns in short

period. 9 others have gone in for getting either a

cow or a buffalo as that also gets steady returns.

However they use their kin who are not HIV

positive to milk their cows/Buffaloes. Of the

parents/Guardians one person who took up ice

selling under other business passed away due to

HIV. Currently 50 of the 60 parents have been

covered and only 10 parents need to be covered

by this self development programme.

Year Goats Cows /

Buffaloes

Saree

sales

Imitation

Jewellary

Fish

selling

Tailoring /

Embroidery

Other

Business

2011 - 2012 7 1 1 1 10

2012 - 2013 5 2 2 1 10

2013 - 2014 6 3 1 10

2014 - 2015 9 1 10

2015 - 2016 5 3 1 1 10

2016- 2017 6 1 1 - - 1 1 10

38 10 4 2 2 2 1 60

4. Other Programmes;

i. Tailoring and Kitchen gardening Programme.

The two programmes are

conducted for the children

of the Rehabilitation centre

as work experience

programme. The promotion

of Kitchen garden

programme is also done at

community level especially among the parents

/guardians of the home children as well as the parents/Guardians of HIV positive boys in

the community. This is done so they would consume vegetables and greens to boost their

strength in their bodies.

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II.Family Counselling

The HIV positive parents/Guardians and also

women who indulge in commercial sex

activities are provided counseling to avoid

multi partner

sex and

unprotected

sex to avoid

getting HIV

and STD

infections.

They are also

counseled

into taking the ARV drugs regularly and to go for CD4

testing. They are also impressed on the need to take

more vegetables and greens which they can cultivate

in their own homes.

5. Accreditation

The Home – ATSWA – KNH rehabilitation

Centre for Children at Risk is visited

every month by the Doctors of the State

Health Department, Officers of the

Social Welfare Department of Andhra

Pradesh and the officials of the Child

Welfare Committee – CWC. The homes

of ATSWA are rated as model homes (

including this home) as they provide

very good facilities and are maintained

well. Members from Service

organizations such as Rotary & Lions

Clubs visit the Home and Encourage the

children and appreciate the activities of

the home. The Local Magistrate is a regular visitor to the home. The home has all

committees including Child protection

Committee.

The land in which the Centre is located

measuring 2 acres (costing about 2 crores

now) has been given free by the Local

Panchayat to ATSWA to carry out social

welfare activities after watching the

development work carried out by ATSWA in

the region. The local people are very happy

that the Rehabilitation centre for Children at

Risk has come up in the land.

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After School Support for Poor Dalit and Tribal Children

Poor Dalit and tribal children often drop out of

school in Chittoor district due to non

availability of educational support as their

parents are illiterates. The School dropout rate

for Andhra Pradesh is 21% and will be even

higher in the most backward district of

Chittoor

district.

The

Dalit

and

Tribal

people

lack regular income and whatever they get is

meager as many of them have loans with the land

lords. The other problem is alcoholism and families

suffer due to this. This affects the Children and their

studies as well and they are unable to study at

home even if they want to. In order to give new life to such children and to help them

in their studies and also to break the cycle of poverty, illiteracy unemployment and

diseases ATSWA decided to tackle it at the root by taking the after school support to

these children by establishing after school tuition centre at Madanambedu in

Sathyavedu Mandal of Chittoor district.

In the centres children converge after school. They get to have a wash to make them

feel fresh and ready. They also get some nutritive snacks

to help them get strengthened. Afterwards the children

are segregated according to their classes so proper

attention could be given to them. In the first session they

are helped with their home work and then they are left

for supervised study. Doubts are cleared as and when a

child raises and the last session is to ensure that the

children have imbibed something in the study period.

Periodical tests are given to increase their confidence

in attending tests. This is because children fear

examinations and this affects the dalit and tribal

children very badly as they have none to support at home in studies. When they fail in an

examination the children are taunted by the class teacher and this invariably leads them

to lose interest only to finally drop out of school. ATSWA believes that by strengthening

the resolve, self esteem of the children much could be achieved in breaking the cycle

of poverty illiteracy unemployment and diseases.

Currently 40 children study in the programme at Madanambedu.

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Rural Women Empowerment

Most of our target women are Dalit and Tribal

communities who are in the lowest strata of

society. The condition of women in Indian

society is forced to dependent on their male

partner. From her childhood, she depends on

her father, brother (younger and elder) and then

husbands. The individuality of women is

restricted

and she

cannot

think other

than the

welfare of the families by foregoing her own wishes

and likeness.

The situation becomes all the more worse for a Dalit

woman to live. She is forced to depend on her

husband. Whatever she earns must be given to the

male partner of the families and he will look after

the maintenance or gives some amount with which women had to manage. This

programme empowers the individual women by helping them to gain confidence,

strength, and power to earn more income and take decisions on economic matters and

sets example for many others by producing better income and living a better life.

This year we were able to take up Women empowerment programme at Kadapakkam

village where Irula Tribal people live. This village was adopted by ATSWA Trust after the

floods of 2015 November-December. Women Self Help Groups were formed and they

were helped to start self employment with the help of CSR arm of Club Mahindra. This

sponsorship from has helped in the purchase of a Plate and tumbler making unit from

betel nut barks. This is a product in demand as is natural product and a waste one too.

As it is an organic product the finished products are sold out. Six women SHG groups are

involved in it and they are able to earn on average Rs 1,500/- a month after deducting

all the expenditure. This income is right at their home without having to go anywhere for

employment with a convenience that they can attend to other jobs as well during the

day. As years go by the number machine units will increase thereby multiplying the

income reaching the long term goal.

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Disability - Community Based Rehabilitation for the Disabled

The Community Based Rehabilitation

Project in the central Chittoor district with

Chittoor town as the headquarters has

been functioning since January 2011 and

has been rendering good service to the

people with disabilities in 8 blocks. There

are villages tucked deeper inside hilly

terrain and

access is

difficult also

as road

facilities or

transport

facilities are

not good enough. The Staff of the project of ATSWA Trust

reach out to them extending regular services to people

with disabilities. The area selected is a very backward and

downtrodden one, mostly inhabited by dalits and tribal

people – the so called untouchables. The services have

greatly enriched the lives of the disabled people and have

brought appreciable improvement.

Mandal wise list of clients S.no Mandal M F Child Total

B G

1. Karvetti Nagar Mandal 130 96 16 19 261

2. S.R.PurumMandal 57 62 12 15 146

3. Chittoor -Urban 106 75 7 5 193

4. Vedamarry /GD Nallore 68 39 13 11 131

5. Penumuru 47 67 9 6 129

6. Vedhurukuppam 130 89 19 25 263

7. Ramachandrapurum 112 86 17 16 231

8. Puthalpet 68 65 6 12 151

Total 718 579 99 109 1505

Classification according to disabilities S.no Clients M F Child Total

M F

1. Orthopedically Handicapped 265 217 28 37 547

2. Intellectual / developmental disability 133 84 37 39 293

3. Cerebral Palsy 44 35 15 13 107

4. Visually Impaired 23 15 1 3 42

5. Hearing Impaired 185 162 18 17 382

6. Leprosy 59 52 - - 111

7. Low vision 11 12 - - 23

Sub Total 720 577 99 109 1505

8. Filariasis / elephantiasis 42 34 - - 76

Total 762 611 99 109 1581

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The staff help the disabled people the

following services.

Pension, Bus Pass, Train Pass, Aids & App,

formation of New PWD Groups, Marriage

fund, Job Placement, Medical Certificate,

Physiotherapy, mainstreaming in schools,

Surgery, Individual loan, Group loan, Group

grant, Scholarship, House grant, land

allotment, gas connection,

ATSWA works for people with disabilities

tirelessly and the District Collector’s Office

with the department of disability and others

have selected ATSWA as the best working

NGO in the field of Community based

Rehabilitation – CBR consecutively for 3

years. ATSWA utilizes the support of everyone

especially that of the service organizations

such as Rotary and Lion’s Clubs and other

institutions like the Sankara Nethralaya

Chennai and other NGOs. ATSWA has been

able to secure aids and appliances worth

several lakhs every year for free distribution

to disabled people.

Vocational Skills Training ATSWA has a history of conducting

Vocational training to young people

to help them get equipped with skills

for income generation so they could

become independent and become

contributing members in the family

and in community. In the past ATSWA

has conducted vocational training in

Computer operations and MS office,

Embroidery and tailoring, Retails sales, Home

electronics, Welding, Carpentry, home

Electrical repairs, cycle and two wheeler –

Motorcycle and scooter repairs to name a

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few through several projects. It has also placed them gainfully after the training.

In Pulicat ATSWA has trained nearly 200 young people in computer operations

and MS Office of the 100 unemployed youth 60 were placed in suitable jobs and

the other 100 consisted of school going children. This can be said of every

vocational training. Strangely Disabled people formed a sizeable number and

this has prompted ATSWA to go into the exclusive domain of vocational training

to specialize it. Previously Vocational Training formed a part of a project or a

programme. But of late a major decision was taken to start vocational training as

an individual department and as a result 4 training centres have been opened

Vocational Training for Disabled people – 4 centres

In its journey to help the disabled

people ATSWA has gone forward in

starting vocational training centres

for people with disabilities in Redhills

at Chennai, Dasukuppam and

Madanambedu in Sathyavedu

Mandal and Chittoor town in

Chittoor district. Efforts have been

taken in this direction to secure

government funding so that more

and more disabled people can be

helped to become financially and

socially independent. Tech

Mahindra donated 15 computers for the Redhills centre to strengthen it and it is

the first corporate company to help ATSWA Trust. It is in this direction the

vocational training centres of ATSWA has been registered with Skill Council for

People with Disabilities – SCPWD which functions under National Skill Development

corporation a body under the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment of the

Government of India. Of the ten organsiations that have been registered with

SCPWD in India ATSWA Trust is the only organization from Tamilnadu to get listed in

the website of SCPWD. The four centres will have

a three courses i.e. 1. Domestic Data Entry

operator, 2. Retail Sales Associate, 3.

Housekeeping room attendant. Each course

will have an intake capacity of 25 candidates

and will go through the course designed by

National Skill development Corporation- NSDC.

The centres will admit young people with

disabilities – orthopedic and hearing impaired

clients to start with. The candidates will receive

certificate from Skill Council for People with disabilities – SCPWD after an

evaluation. The candidate will be provided placement after that. ATSWA Trust

hopes to train and equip at least 3,000 young people with vocational skills for

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income generation in a year. It hopes to

expand the services to with this

accreditation ATSWA Trust hopes to train

many disabled people in Vocational training

in the time to come.

The new programme has been the new

cooperation with Tech Mahindra in training

disabled young people in three different

vocational skills i.e. (1) Vocational skills in

Computers which includes Basic Computer,

Data Entry and English. (2) Sales associate, (3) Work place training. These trainings

are geared to help disabled young people from Tamilnadu and Andhra. The

trained young people will also be placed after training The trainings are of three

months duration and each batch will have 30 students and 120 students are to

be trained and placed in a year.

Environment Protection and Organic Farming

With ever increasing global warming

and its insidious fall out there is greater

awareness among the general public

in the world about the need to protect

environment in all possible ways. The

slogan think globally and act locally

has caught on and people have

started to do things at their level to

save the earth than by waiting for the

G8 developed nations to cut

emissions to save the environment. IT

has been felt that at least the speed

with which the damage can atleast

be reduced by people taking the first

step in environment protection. The

desire to go back to the ways of our

forefathers who did farming only through

natural methods is now a major

movement due to the harmful effects of

taking chemical fertilizers and pesticides

aided farm produce. Organic farming

has taken a strong hold over the people

due to many advantages that it brings

with it as it enhances the quality without any harmful effects and the super health

that it provides compared with the chemical aided farm produce. ATSWA Trust

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has joined this movement and is

encouraging people to take to organic

farming as it has many advantages over the

chemical based produce. Going organic

brings more profit and cost less to produce

than the other one. ATSWA through its

awareness programme and active

implementation programmes is helping people

involved in farming to go in for organic farming

using bio fertilizers and bio pesticides. It is also

encouraging people to go in for traditional and

native variety than the modern ones. It hopes

to expand this programme to reach more people to go in not only for organic farming

but also in consuming it.

A new Bio Diversity based ecological farming training programme has been started in

Sathyavedu and Vardhapalayam Mandal to train 200 tribal people in organic farming

methods preparation of Bio Fertilisers and Bio Pesticides. A training programme was

conducted by Mr.Glorydoss project coordinator on 9th March 2017 at Vardhapalayam

village 200 tribal women took part in it.

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Disaster Relief

The month of December 2016 will not be

forgotten by the people living in the north

coastal Tamilnadu and in south coastal

Andhra Pradesh as Cyclone Vardha lashed

out for 2 days causing untold sufferings to life

and property

As soon as the cyclone was over ATSWA Trust

reached out to the affected areas in North

Chennai where lot of poor people live to

provide relief and rehabilitation measures.

Relief items were provided with the help of

Tech Mahindra, Club Mahindra and Habitat for

Humanity with additional help from Bank of

America.

This particular

cyclone made the

lives of the people

already affected

by 2015 floods and

ATSWA appealed

to Habitat for

Humanity for

support to these

people. As a

response for disaster and to create better health facility 150

toilets were built by ATSWA Trust with the support of Habitat

for Humanity and Eicher Foundation. It also repaired 25

houses damaged in 2015 floods and built 15 new houses at

Sadaiyan kuppam, Thiruvettriour,Chennai Tamil Nadu .

Visits, Conferences and Special Programmes. Fund Raising Workshop for Fund Raising Team for 120 participants

6-12-16 to 8-12-16, 28-12-16 to 30-12-16, 27-1-17 to 29-1-17 at Redhills office - Chennai

Dairy training by Christoffel Blinden Mission at Erode. 23-1-2017 to 25-1-20017 10 member

team led by Mr.Rajeev.

Disaster preparedness training for people with disabilities –at Assam from 21st to 21th.

Mr.Rajeev and Mr.A.M.Murali.

CBM New Delhi Conference on April 3rd 2017 was attended by Mr.Chelladurai President

of the Trust

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Conclusion

ATSWA Trust has been able to achieve much for the marginalized and downtrodden

people this year due to the solid support of donors, friends and service agencies. Their

contribution is immense and this can never be forgotten. AT this time ATSWA Trust

gratefully acknowledges the support that we received from Tech Mahindra, Club

Mahindra, Habitat for Humanity in India and National Institute of visually handicapped

for their support and strength.