Fundraising Opportunities for NGOs

WED Trust has organised a Workshop on Fundraising Opportunity for NGOs at Madurai during 18th and 19th Oct 2013. 15 participants from 6 NGOs participated. 

Mr.Narendran Thirugnanam has given his best inputs which all liked very much and accepted to improve their basics better to raise more funds for their NGOs. They all requested to have a follow up workshop to learn more.

Completed Counseling and Short Stay Home for WED Trust

I write you as a volunteer staying for one month in Chellampatti visiting WED Trust. I’m Swiss and studying law in the sixth semester at the University of St.Gallen. Every day I learn more about their interesting work and I’m very impressed about the great variety of their projects and also about the achievements through their engagement. Now I write you to tell about the finish of the Short Stay House. The WED Trust Team told me, that this was only possible to be build with your generous donation. I was very happy when I heard this and I made some pictures of the house to show you how it looks like. You will find the document with the pictures attached, I hope you will like it as well as I do. Ms. Logamani and Mr. Dharma Neethi as well as the whole staff of WED Trust are looking forward to move in it soon.

WED Trust reached a total found of RS 1’257’399.00, which is fully used for the construction of the house. The building will be completed with a car shed to keep safety their four wheelers and two wheelers, for which WED Trust still needs RS 100’000. This car shed could also be used for public meetings. On the first floor there are three rooms. One will be used for the staff, one as a documentation room and one as office Ms. Logamani and Mr. Dharma Neethi. On the second floor you find the guest room for visitors or counseling with western bath and the important short stay room for women in emergency. They will find a protected home for themselves and their children as long as they need it. They will be save and get the help they need most. They also can use the kitchen and the bath attached to this room. On the roof is a new water tank and also much space to dry Spirulina and for the ones who want to enjoy the beautiful view.

With this letter I – in the name of myself and the WED Trust team – would like to say thank you for your generous donation, which has made possible the construction of this Short Stay House. The new building will be very useful for the important work of WED Trust. It gives women who are treated with violence the chance to have a place where they are safe and get the help they need. They have the possibility to get out of bad treatment and change their life. Hopefully more such houses are constructed in India in future.

With kind regards,

Sereina Spescha

sereina.spescha@student.unisg.ch

Fund Request for a Training Hall

We thank you for your valuable contribution and support to WED Trust during the year 2012.

We are in need of a Meeting Hall wherein about 100 persons can be seated comfortably. Since we have enough space in front of our office, we are planning to form the hall with Iron rod with Tin sheet roof and Tiles floor for 30” x 20” feet with an estimate of Rs.2 lakhs (US$ 4000).

The meeting hall can be used for

a)      Organize awareness, appraisal and review meetings to women, youth, children and the aged

b)      Provide skill trainings to leaders of community, women, youth and elderly people and NGOs

c)      Conduct film /video shows on social issues

d)      Facilitate family counseling sessions and legal aid camps

e)      Organize medical camps and distribution of medicines

f)       Distribution of livelihood support to beneficiaries of various projects

g)      Display charts of our vision, mission, activities, achievements and future plans

h)      Marketing shop for the promotion of Spirulina and other products of our SHGs

i)       Organize seminar and Special days like Children’s Day, Women’s Day and Human Rights Day

j)       Set-up exhibitions stalls and melas.

k)      Provide space for local community usage like network meets, debates, social functions, important observation, stake holders meet

l)       To make safe park our four wheeler and two wheelers during the night time

We request you to support suitably to make avail this important structure at our Office premise. 

Founders & Directors
WED Trust

SOCIO ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF GIRL CHILD FAMILIES

Introduction

Now a days female infanticide and terminate the female babe at the womb are becoming a global issue.  In consequence of this situation, female ratio is decreasing.  Getting son is prioritized and people have traditionally thought that male child is heir of the family, it would carry out the last ceremony include burial or fire the parents body and break the water pots.  By this ritual male child will help the parents to enter into heaven. They also believed that male child will look after the parents at the old age.  Families and local community have ill treated and subordinated the women because they viewed that women should go for her bridegroom’s home, extra luggage for the family.  People dislike for take women for marriage from the family with more daughters, thought that it is unsecured one.  So that they always dominate it, control over the women.  It brings house hold atrocities against them.  More women were separated from their marital families.  They were abused by worst words.  When the women trespass the male control after they have enjoyed much brutal treatments, men called her disobedient and mischief.  If they lost their parents, their male kins take over all their properties and assets.

Majority of the families have lost their pleasure when they got girl childbirth.  Mother delivered daughter never get respect from the community and family both of them have avoided and treated as unwanted.  Community calls it “heir less” and “root less” family.

Own brothers and other kins teased the family that was ashamed, hided their face before neighbors.

WED TRUST thought that the persons who are ignorant, unable to response the orthodoxy values and discouraged by the community members should be identified, removed darkness in their hearts, encouraged and counseled them for right development.

Aim

Uplift families having only girl children through awareness generation on gender equity, education, socio-economic and cultural changes. 

Plastic Free Model Village

INTRODUCTION

Global warming has become one of the biggest ever problems of the globe. Causes for the same are continuing as in the past. Mitigating actions are growing up with the increasing awareness among the mass. But this is not enough in comparison to the enormity of the problem. A project is planned and implemented for an effective and participatory mitigating strategies in one village which can become replicating model for future such operations in large number of villages.

OBJECTIVES

1. Awareness Generation on the demerits of plastic bags
2. Attempt to free the land environment from plastics.
3. Green the land area with trees.
4. Provide more opportunities to use the degradable wastes in agricultural lands.

IMPACTS ACHIEVED

• Children are more involved in keeping the village clean.
• 2 women groups with membership of 26 formed New Women self Help Groups.
• One Elderly Welfare Groups with the membership of 12 members was formed in the village. 
• The working committee meets at regular intervals and do monitor the developments in the village. The experience has helped the villagers to keep the committee even after the project period for the over all welfare of the village.
• The women and youth group has looking after the tree plants well.
• The students of Claret School learnt about the people participation in model village developments. 
• The School teachers have very much impressed about the project activities and they keeping motivate the students to use the project appropriately.
• The project motivates the existing micro-credit members to repay their loan properly.
• The Children and youth have learnt to use the non-conventional energy resources like solar.   

Wall paintings on the Issue of Dowry

We work in the field of Human Rights and Women Empowerment in Usilampatti Taluk of Madurai District.  Violence against women such as female feticide, infanticide, dowry harassments, eve teasing and domestic violence are common in the rural area in Madurai district. Through wall painting at public places in the village, we educate rural people on the importance of giving assets to their daughters/sisters instead giving jewels, utensils and other movable assets that can be easily sold. The awareness generating picture has helped lot of women on human rights and raise voice against the dowry demands by her husbands. We want to continue to educating the people on Freedom from Dowry.             

Spirulina Rural Promotion

Spirulina – An Introduction

Seemingly simple, aquatic, microscopic, spiral shaped, blue green algae, is   one of the most concentrated sources of nutrition known to man. Spirulina is an immortal descendent of the first photosynthetic life form. Spirulina is exceedingly adaptable and occurs in a wide variety of environments including fresh water, tropical springs, saltwater and saltpans. 

Nutritional Value

Spirulina contains an amazing array of vital nutrients, such as high quality Protein, minerals, Vitamins, Enzymes and Pigments- all very important for our body function and good health.

The nutritional bounty hidden within Spirulina is mind numbing!  A dose of Spirulina delivers more of the micronutrients required daily by the human body than traditionally cherished foods like Milk, Egg, Carrots, Greens, Meat etc.,

The wide mix of micronutrients in Spirulina bestows Spirulina with a versatile role as a nutrient. Be it the new born, young, healthy, health conscious or the convalescing – Spirulina is useful to all. 

Rural Promotion

In order to combat malnutrition and reach affected children and women in the rural areas WED Trust ensures the promotion activities at affordable prices to the poor and marginalized people with the support of Antenna Nutritech Foundation periodically.