Women Organization for Rural Development
Services

Environment Conservation & Sustainable Agriculture & Animal Rights:

Services
  • Promoting Organic Farming Practices among Marginal and Small Farmers as Sustainable Livelihood.
  • Establishing Eco-Clubs in the rural schools, as part of inculcating the sense of Environment Conservation in the young minds.
  • Establishment of seed banks for protection of genetic stock of traditional seed varieties. Promotion of vermi culture, tree planting, backyard poultry with country fowls for bio-diversify & income generation.
  • Campaign on protection of Farm Animals & Promoting Vegetarianism.

Environment Sanitation & Drinking Water:

Services
  • Construction of Community Toilets
  • Construction of Drainage Systems
  • Construction of Individual Toilets in the Rural House Hold

HIV/AIDS Prevention & Care and Support:

Services
  • Awareness Generation on Prevention among Female Sex Workers.
  • Clinical Care of Female Sex Workers.
  • Creation of Alternative Livelihood option for Commercial Sex Workers.
  • Psychological Counseling.
  • Educational Aid for Children of HIV Positive Parents.
  • Care & Support for Infected Children.
  • Facilitation on collective Right Based Activities for PLHAs.

Caring the Deserted & Destitutes:
  • Home for the Aged at Gandhi Nagar, S.K. Mettur.
  • Creche for Poor Children at S.K.Mettur, Nagapalayam Colony, Chinnampallimedu
  • Saving the Abandoned Babies and Facilitation for Adoption.

Health Personal Hygiene & Rehabilitation:

Services
  • Reproductive Health Care for Women.
  • Persistent Campaign on Importance of Breast Feeding.
  • Mobile Health Camps in Villages.
  • Vocational Skill Training & Resourcing of persons cured of Leprosy.

Promotion of Alternative Health Care:
  • Promotion of Traditional Medicines as Effective Low Cost remedies for common ailments.
  • Establishment of Kitchen Herbal Gardens in rural households.
  • Campaign on Toxic free Naturopathy.
  • Propagation of Medicinal plant cultivation among tribal communities in Kolli Hills for Income Generation.

Empowering the Oppressed Sections:
  • Facilitation towards assertion of land owning rights of Dalit communities.
  • Imparting vocational skills for Dalit women to break free from oppressive farm Labour.
  • Sensitization on Legal Rights.

Accomplishments – So far

Services
  • Formation of 311 functional Self Help Groups & 3 block and 1 district level women federations.
  • Eco-Clubs & National Green Cadets formed in 153 and 204 schools respectively.
  • 1000 Individual toilets constructed in 16 Panchayats.
  • 5 community toilets constructed.
  • 405 Land Less Dalit families have been facilitated to acquire 132.65 acres of land.
  • 1522 Female Commercial Sex Workers identified are extended care & support.
  • 255 children with HIV/AIDS are taken care of with Health Care & Nutritional Food.
  • The poor rural women have been facilitated to acquire Rs. 50 Lakhs ($ 125,000) as credit through bank linkages for IGP activities.
  • Two seed banks have been created to conserve traditional varieties of seed.
  • 500 Kitchen Herbal Garden have been established in the rural households.
  • 31 destitute senior citizens are provide complete Care & Support.
  • 15 bore wells are installed in 15 villages of 3 various panchayats Kablilamalai Union with the financial assistance of CAPART and Water for Humanitarian Fund, USA.
  • With the magnanimous assistance by “Zero-Kap” 150 dalit women are going to get economic assistance to uplift their economic standard of life through various Income Generation Activities.
  • U.K. based agency “Jeevika Trust” is giving financial assistance to WORD organization to empower dalit women’s rights. This program is implemented in 5 dalit villages of Thidumal Panchayats, Kabilamalai Union.