Our Activities
Motivation programmes
Regular visit to the tribal colonies,holding grass root level meetings. conducting dialogues on the areas that require qualitative changes, improvement in their life style. Changing unhealthy habits like drinking, gambling, smoking etc. and fostering unity and co operation. We fought for the converted Christians to get their rights as tribals. Now they enjoy all the benefits like other tribals.
Awareness Education
We started awareness classes from 1978 and even now continues classes on health, Nutrition, General and Social needs for women ,tribals, youth, children, farmers etc. We conduct average two classes in a month.
Camps
Different camps like eye camp. Medical camp, cancer camp, Ayurvedic medical camps etc. are conducted. Every year atleast three camps will be conducting.
Educational activities
A direct impact of the above mentioned motivation programmes helped to increase the awareness on the part of the people about the need for literacy and educating their children.This was envident through the increased attendance in the school and in the nonformal education classes run for the adults . Arrangements were made by the society for educating 155 tribals and many of the poor children for their accomodation in the hostels.lnformation was provided for different groups to send their children for job oriented courses like Nursing,Printing,Driving,Marine engineering. Carpentary, Wireman Licence course and Tailoring . Arrangements have been done for the drop outs to re-admit to the schools and the orphans to SOS Village .We are giving every year scholarships to the bright poor students.There are some students studing with the help of some generous people.
Vocational & Job Oriented Training
We have tailoring, embroidery, and KGTE classes for women and girls. Every year nearly 45 girls will come to study and they will be employed in shops or at home. We have helped 75 to get loans from banks for machines with low interest. 2002 we have started Hotel management and catering technology and computer courses for youth. This job oriented course provide more chances to get job. They can develop their personality through these courses. We have sent hundreds of students for different vocational courses like Nursing, Laboratory Technician, Carpentry, Masons turner, ITC etc. and many of them are earning money.
Village health programmes
We would co ordinate the mother and child health programme monitoring the growth of children conducting health education classes with stress on preventive health care and nutrition encouraging kitchengarden, medical garden, Home Medicals, Otta moolies etc. and also arranged environmental sanitation programmes through providing latrines etc.
Sanitary latrines
Morethan 1750 latrines are constructed for the poor people by the assistance of government, credit union, CAPART, MANOS etc. Earlier people did not know the need of latrines even the rich people did not had latrines. Now all are interested to have latrines.
Drinking water
1 borewell, 65 open wells and 2 fish ponds are digged by us for the poor to get the clean water.
Housing
We know that a beautiful dwelling place is the necessity and the greatest dream of every person. While we started our work 70 % of the people have tatched huts. No sun light or breeze reach to the house and in the raining season there won’t be any place without wet even to sit. The people were unable to solve their problems, So we worked for them and we would succeed to help 1250 (families to build strong houses . We used the grant from CAPART , Tribal development department, SC, ST corporation, Mythri loans, Rajive Gandhi one million housing, Partly grant from MANOS UNIDAS etc. Now they are able to tap the government sources. We also gave 4 cents of land and house, latrine, well, roads etc. to 60 landless, houseless families and 10 cents of land to 10 other tribal families.
Welfare programmes
We have helped 700 people to get widow pension, agricultural pension, destitute pension and pension for the handicaped. We directed the couples of introcaste marriage to get the benefits from the government. 120 of the sick people were able to receive money from the Chief minister’s relief fund due to our effort. 600 handicaped youth and children are helped.
Nursery
Nursery started for kids of the working women’s, tribals and poor people on 1993. There are average 45 kids every year in the nursery class.
Spinning
From Kadhi Board on 1995 we got sanctioned a spinning unit. 25 women can work in the unit. We have provided 10 cents of land to Kadhi Board for building. Board constructed a building and shifted spinning unit to the new building.
Tribal Welfares
We have registered two units for tribals one in “Nirmala Tribal welfare unit” and “Nirmal Coffee Workers unit”. After giving enough training to leaders and members we handed over the units to themseives. We helped to get two job centres for them and these-centres are managed by them.
(a). Stone creching unit : – 15 people can work. Kadhi board has given grant to buy land,construct work shed and office, to buy equipments and working capital too. We constructed a sanitary latrine with bathroom for workers.
(b). Coffee powder making unit:- This project also got sanctioned from the District small Industrial Board to tribals and we handed over these both unit to tribals.For this project also government gave money for land ,buildings,machinaries, working capital etc. 25 people can work in this field.
Self employment grants and loans
The organization has been instrumental in motivating and organizing the tribals and , others for availing financial help from the respective government department for different self employment schemes there are 1275 families got the privillage of benefitting from this scheme by grant and loan from tribal department, credit uniform, social welfare board, DRDA loan, The Bridge Foundation etc.The self employment schemes are such as diary units, piggary, Cow & Goat farm, Small shops, tailoring, petty shops, Small scale business etc.
Social welfare & Charitable activities
We have got sanctioned from Social Welfare Board , a diary project , a tailoring and cutting unit, nearly 97 women got job. They themselves manage those units .Creche unit for babies also got sanctioned from Social Welfare board
Nirmal Nidhi
On January 1991 we started Nirmal Nidhi here. 220 members have taken membership They are very poor . But they have to help them selves inorder to improve their life. So they are trying to save at least Rs.5 /- every week.
Cultural Programmes
The organization takes the initiative in promoting tribal arts, tribal dance, Bow & arrow. Thudikottu, Kolkali were the items presented by the tribals on special occasions and on local feast days, opportunities are provided for presenting various art forms and on such days community meals and get together are arranged. All National Festivals are celebrated.
We have regular contact with shops, hospitals, factories hotels etc. and they offer chances for our youth to get suitable jobs. Nirmala Mahila Samajam takes the initiative for the destitute to give treatment and the poor overaged girls marriage settlement.lt is a good thing to say that when a need arises in the locality youth and ladies come up with voluntary service and finish up the work with the co-operation of others. lf anybody comes to our door for help we won’t send them empty hands.
We are proud to complete 44 successful years of achivements exclusively in housing, sanitation, vocational training and placement, self-employment, women empowerment, etc. The long and most difficult journey has not been in vain. Today Nirmala Mahila Samajam is known in the housing, sanitation, drinking water, social vocational training section far and near and all because of God’s grace as well as the communial effort of members, benefactors, beneficiaries etc.
Dreams of the years 2024-25
- To avail sanitation to 100 families, drinking water facilities in 7 areas.
- Reach out of 150 aged persons in order to give positive energy, woolen cloth and emergency medicines.
- Medication to 7 patients, scholarship, fees, books, uniform to 7 poor students
- Plastering & painting of 10 houses
- Community Marriage of 7 aged women
- Different medical camps