Nirnaya has been working with RDC to collectively revive and reconstruct the identity of the tribal people in the Denkanikottai Taluk, Krishnagiri District in Tamil Nadu. The need of the hour is now to work intensively on ensuring quality education for the girl child, addressing malnourishment issues, preventing child marriages and creating awareness and capacity building amongst pre-adolescent girls on health and sexuality issues.
Tens of millions tribal children in India, more so tribal girls still face basic challenges of survival and healthy development. Poverty, low literacy, unsafe drinking water, poor environment, lack of sanitation, lack of basic health facilities as well as traditional beliefs and customs has impeded their all-round development. Nirnaya targets to better the lives of approximately 200 tribal girls empowering them, improving their nutritional and health status and providing them various life skills
The project aims to promote the rights of Irula tribal girl child in terms of education, health, childhood and pre-adolescent issues. We hope to provide pre-school education with nutritious food and drink for children thereby addressing issues of malnutrition. Sensitizing and educating the community will help prevent child marriages and fight against child labor. By providing additional coaching and after school care, would enable the children to progress to the mainstream schools.
The main objective is to improve the overall development of the tribal girl child. By changing the mindset of the society which largely perceives the girl child to be a burden on the families due to their poor socioeconomic status and by supporting the girl child in her education would help broaden the horizons to withstand oppressive forces of custom, culture which will change the life perspective of generations to come.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
