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Aims
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The centre aims
to promote the overall development of children, youth and women
in rural and urban areas in India, who are socially and
economically deprived; to provide family centred home based
intensive services to children, youth and women in dysfunctional
families in slums and backward areas in India; to sensitise
rural and urban children and women on various environmental
issues and concerns through education, training and
communication; to create public awareness on the rights of the
child and women and to work for the promotion, protection and
defence of children's and women's rights. It focuses on
education sponsorship; home based care and school placement for
children in dysfunctional families; referral services to
children for problem children; family counselling; environmental
education for children and children and women rights education.
It is operational in service provision, capacity building and
training, advocacy, networking, research and information.
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Details about
the project locations, target populations etc
a) Local context (economically, socially, and politically):
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The
Goodwill social work centre is located in Madurai, Tamilnadu,
India which is the second largest city in Tamil Nadu, India
and is also considered as the cultural capital of Tamil Nadu.
Madurai is the famous and ancient home of Tamil culture in
South India. It has been a great city from its very
beginning, more than 2500 years ago. It is one of the very
ancient cities of India. It is called the temple city, where
the Goddess Meenakshi temple is centrally located. It is the
largest city nest to Chennai (Madras) in the State of
Tamilnadu, South India It has sheltered generation of
artisans and craftsmen, merchants and traders, poets and
scholars, saints and statesmen, all round by the pursuit of
worthy ends, true learning and personal and social peace. As
the heart of Tamil Nadu, Madurai has survived the
vicissitudes of political fortune with charming serenity and
undiminished vigour. The total area of Madurai is 22 Sp. Kms.
It is one of the three metropolitan cities in the state of
Tamilnadu having a total population of 1.2 million, of which
19.06 percent are slum population which is distributed among
72 wards in and around the Madurai city corporation. It is
reported in the Government of Tamilnadu, Slum population
2001 that Madurai (Corporation) has had a slum population of
175875 of which 88725 were males and 87150 were females. The
total number of slums is 185. A very high proportion of the
families of working children live in slums and backward
areas and most of them (father and mother) work in
unorganised and informal sectors. Some of them take up
self-employment to eke out their livelihood.
Since its inception, Our centre has been organising various
programmes for children,youth,women and workers in
unorganised sectors including agriculture in Madurai and its
neighbouring villages in Madurai east village Panchayat
union block and Madurai West Village Panchayat union block
in Madurai district,Tamilnadu,South India. There are 106
revenue villages located within the Madurai East Panchayat
union block whereas Madurai West Panchayat union block has
82 revenue villages. The total population of Madurai east
Panchayat union block is122235,of which 61958 are males and
60277 are females whereas the Madurai West Panchayat Union
block has a total population of 190245 of which 96225 are
males and 94020 are females. As to the socio-economic
indicators of the Madurai East Panchayat Union, the number
of female per 1000 males 973. The percentage of Schedule
castes (socially oppressed class) to the total population is
20.19. The percentage of workers to total rural population
41.70 whereas the percentage of female workers to total
workers is 41.98.Since this is an agricultural community,
the percentage of agricultural workers to total workers is
70.28 whereas the percentage of agricultural labourers to
total agricultural workers is 76.89.The density of
population per sq.meter is 553 and the average size of
household is 4.The percentage of literacy is 53.28.
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b) The socio
economic indicators:
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The socio
economic indicators of the Madurai West Panchayat union
block reveal the fact that the number of female per 1000
males is 973.The percentage of schedule castes to the total
population is 15.11. The percentage of workers to total
rural population 37.98 whereas the percentage of female
workers to total workers is 28.21.Since this is an
agricultural and semi-urban based community, the percentage
of agricultural workers to total workers is 20.65 whereas
the percentage of agricultural labourers to total
agricultural workers is 74.32.The density of population per
sq.meter is 1172 and the average size of household is 4.The
percentage of literacy is 81.36.
The Goodwill social work centre has been reaching out to 100
villages and hamlets in the above two union blocks and
casting its net wide to work with poor and disadvantaged
sections of the rural, semi-urban and backward areas in and
around Madurai,Tamilnadu,India.
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c) Target groups:
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Children,
youth, men and women who belong to low socioeconomic status
families in rural and urban areas.
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Children
and young men and women who belong to Dalit communities
(socially oppressed classes in India)
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Children
and young men and women whose parents work in unorganised
sectors, including agriculture.
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Young people
in dysfunctional families (Female headed families, Single
parent families etc
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School and
college going youth
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Working youth
in organised, semi-organised and unorganised sectors
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Dysfunctional
families
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NGOS and civil
society organisations in the State of Tamilnadu,South India.
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Support by foreign
and national donors.
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Most of our
programmes are aided by International funding organisations
and local national organisations. The following
organisations have provided financial and material
assistance to our centre:
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1. |
Family Focus International,
Australia
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Oz Child-Children Australia
Inc,Australia
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SIMAVI,The Netherlands
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International Development and
Research Centre, Canada
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The Malian Foundation,
Australia
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PANDA Software International
S.L,Spain
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Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS)-Ministry
of Human Resources Development, Government of India (Madurai
office) New Delhi, India. 8. Global Links Initiative-United
Kingdom.
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