Renovation the Dalit peoples damaged houses.

Project title                                          :  To Renovation  the damaged and semi houses     

                                                              For Dalit community.

MISSION:

 BOSS has been started in the year 1995 by a group of social activists and feminists  with a long time vision to eradicate poverty , shelter and  empowerment of the broken people (Dalits of Harijans) mentioned as Scheduled castes and scheduled Tribes as per Government of India Educational Rules. The Executive committee of BOSS has been elected democratically were the major supports of Dalit people as most disadvantaged marginalize people. Because of scandalous and fault machinery of the Government schemes are reaching these poor and downtrodden people. Moreover the empowerment in social and economic couldn’t be achieved because of partiality and untouchability due to castism. There exist several denials of human rights by way of manhandling, raping, decoiting, discrimination and violent actions against these Dalits. Hence BOSS is striving hard and taken a challenge to establish empowerment and emancipation by collective action among these poor Dalits. BOSS mainly cares social justice and oppressed peopl’s emancipation. We would like to strengthen the capacity of Dalits by providing literacy economic, Social and political opportunity supports.

Target people population: 4900 area covered 50 kms. The project area: Country : INDIA: State : Tamilnadu; District Tiruvannamalai; Taluk : Tiruvannamalai Target villages Covered : 05 .Total damaged house 50 . The entire project area is covered with hilly and tribal places. They doesn’t have any infrastructure or any equipments not evening owning any land and living in mud-huts. they belongs to (ethnic) scheduled castes/ tribes or Dalits or Harijans community and out caste caste in Hindu religion. They are all Indians. The project focus on both genders and to provide supports through women groups and youth groups. They are sexually weak and have no gender equality. The men are dominating women and women are compelled for dowry for getting marriage. The participants of the project are the women groups and youth groups in the age between 18 to 35 years.  As they are all hard work labor their physical ability lacks behind because of non-availability of proper health and treatments.

This project aims to protect their livelihood and shelter.        So we believe that our project is very much consist with the objective and eligible activities of this programme.

This project is community participatory programme. The community will play critical role in selection of beneficiaries, raw material purchase and monitoring through the members of Self Help Group (SHG). This SHG is primarily formed for motivating the poor to involve in small savings and credit among themselves and stop the people from getting money from private money lenders at very high interest rate we motivated the people to form in to S.H.G. and involve them to help themselves. They have been                                                  cultivated to involve in team work for common cause. We have formed 80 such groups and do lot of welfare activities. The dalits and tribal, who did not own any worth household articles at their huts, have     learnt saving practices after moving into their permanent houses and the it has   ultimately made them to be the proud owners of T.V. ceiling fan, cot, almirah, chairs    and tables and jewels on their houses.  The permanent houses have motivated them to look for the future optimistically. The life in tiny huts forced the dalits and tribal to   form a negative thinking that their  In life is doomed once for all and the their   children’s education can not bring any   change their life.  But the permanent houses  have transformed their pessimistic   attitudes and all the children   belonging to the families where we helped them to build houses,   are regularly attending  to the school now.