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Children Sponsorship Project
Enfants Du Monde and PACHE Trust Implementing children sponsorship project for the female children affected by female infanticide and children infected and affected by HIV – AIDS.
Recently Mrs.Maud richoux and Mr. Jean Pierre from Enfants Du Monde visited Madurai and met all the sponsor children during their visit from 28 – 30th of December 2016. They had a fruitful discussion with the children at their homes and to know the first hand information about the impact and the progress of the project.
On 30th December 2016 all the children were assembled at our PACHE TRUST Centre and celebrated Christmas, New Year – 2017 and Pongal (The Harvest festival of Tamilnadu) with games, discussions and cultural programmes. The children were enjoyed the programme and enthusiastically participated all the events and the day was went off well. The children were awarded with prizes and gifts.
We take this opportunity to extend our Heartfelt thanks to all the Sponsors for your continuous support towards the children from the poor and oppressed families during the year 2016, and we expecting the same in 2017.
Deepavali is a festival of light which symbolically represents the significance of removing darkness in all aspects of life, making the triumph of good over evil, is an occasion for PACHE TRUST to assemble all children with festive mood with colorful dressing up in a common place forgetting their sorrows & sufferings in life with a view to celebrate the festival with love , affection solidarity, sharing concern for one another renew to strengthen their friendship ,exhibit their skills &talents etc., It was conducted in two places separately considering their convenience. Even though DEEPAVALI is on 4th November this year PACHE TRUST organized the celebration of festival with children and their mothers well in advance i.e., 17th October and 24th October at Melur and our Centre in Madurai respectively.
The children were made central actors and not mere spectators on these two occasions. Drawing colorful Rangolis using different colors of mixed powders on the ground decorating the places with balloons and flowers preparing agenda for the events are some of the aspects to be specifically mentioned.
Songs, Dances, Speech, Competition, Games and other recreational & fulfilled activities were part and parcel of the celebration. The winners &participants of each activity were encouraged by way of offering prizes. Besides delicious food &variety of snacks and sweets, PACHE TRUST also offered financial donation for the children meet out their various educational, health & other needs. The celebration served as an occasion to promote Love, Peace, Joy & solidarity, share their achievements in schools and other places exhibit their latent potentialities. They were finally prepared with a mind setting that they too can positively contribute their mite towards improving their family conditions and involving in nation building process.
The children infected and affected with HIV shared their several years of contact with their sponsors who generously act with noble virtues & personal human touch and expressed their thankfulness from the bottom of their hearts and prayed God for the sponsoring individuals and their families towards their wellbeing.
once again, our “sincere thanks “for the kind hearted individual sponsors, donors, groups and “ENFANTS DU MONDE, Belgium “for their whole hearted full pledged support for the developmental initiatives of PACHE TRUST.
Thank you very much and take this opportunity to wish you all “HAPPY DEEPAVALI”.
I am Divyabarathi (name has changed) (13 years old) residing at Valaseripatti of Kottampatti Block. I am studying 7th standard Kottampatti Government Girls Hr. Sec. School. My mother died three years back by HIV/AIDS. My father and myself also infected. I am studying well. But my father is looking after me and my elder sister and my younger brother as being a coolie. My siblings are not infected. I am forced to have medicines regularly and I don’t like to have medicines. Previously I had frequent fevers, head aches and other diseases. After talking with Vijaya akka from support group brought me to PACHE Trust. A staff and Vijaya akka brought me to Madurai GH for testing. We found that I have less than 200 CD4 counts and I was counseled to have ART. There after I am regular in ART and now I am feeling better without the diseases. In the beginning I was isolated by my neighbours as myself, father and my mother were infected. The staff from PACHE Trust have interacted with them for their care and support for our welfare. Now they are very concern and caring with us especially the self help group members. PACHE Trust has enabled us with AHN and CWOs to have regular medical and nutrition support. Now I have the confidence that I will become a teacher to my own school. I thank PACHE Trust for given me such confidence and support and I pray that more children like me must be benefited these care and support.
I am R. Bhuvaneswari (name has changed) (age 9), residing at kadumittanpatti. I am studying in 4th standard at Panchayat Union School. Two years back, my father died by HIV/AIDS. My self and My mother have affected with HIV. I have an elder brother and a sister. No one help from my father’s relatives. So we left our own village of Saruguvalayapatti and came to grandma’s village Kadumittanpatti.
Because of old age, my grandma can’t give full support to us. So we are living in a very poor condition among the mango farm. No other help from others.
At that situations, a staff from PACHE Trust and consoled us. My mother feels free from mental stress. The staff asked our relatives to give support to us. My mother and myself attended quarterly follow up meeting at Melur project office. The parents and children shared the feelings of their families and also about the previous meetings. At that time, I was unable to share my feelings. PACHE Team encouraged me to speak. It gives more confidence to share my feelings in the next meetings.
The children shared the activities of support group. I liked the activities of the support meetings. So I wish to join with the support group. The children told about their future ambitions. I also share my future ambitions among them with full confidence. I want to become a teacher.I thank PACHE Trust staff for giving me confidence in my life. I shall support the children those who are affected by HIV like me and pray for them.
My name is Maya (name has changed). I am studying in VII Std. I have a younger brother. He is studying VI Std. We are studying well. And my parent was died in AIDS/HIV in our infancy, ignorance stage. My brother was also infected by AIDS/HIV and taking ART medicine. We are in the care of our aunty (Periyamma). She is widow, and she working as a agriculture coolie .They getting very low income, economically we are struggling very much.
My brother will not take his food properly. He won’t obey to anyone. He doesn’t go to school regularly, and he used to make quarrel with the local guys. One day, they beat my brother and there is no one to support him. In the mean time, my aunty also fell down in her working place and had a heavy injury in her legs. My brother’s activity disturbed us both mentally and physically.
In this situation CHAHA team staffs Mrs.Pandiyammal and Counselor – Mr.Raja visited our house for need assessment. I explained them about our family situation and my brother’s activities. They gave counseling to my brother and then he realized our future. They asked us to make an ambition in our life my brother aim to become collector and my self to become a teacher.
Now we are getting lot of support from CHAHA project like house hold, education, nutrition, OI and counseling.
Now my brother is going to school regularly. I got the new brother, in future we both will come in good position. I never forget the CHAHA project. We got confidence in our life, because of them. Thanks to CHAHA project staffs
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Maya
My name is Ramu(name has changed). I am studying in IX Std. I have a younger sister. She is studying in III Std. My father was died when my mother was pregnant. My father loves and cares me very much. I am also very much affected with him before his death. After my father died I lost concentration in my studies. In this time, my mother was working as a daily coolie. We are very much struggling to meet out our economic problem. My aunty helps us financially for me and my sister’s education.
In this situation my mother was suffering from head ache and fever often. So she was not able to go her work properly. So we financially suffered very much must of my school friends were having bicycle and were having many clothes. So I and my sister felt bad to go to school. I failed in IX Std. and again I am study in same class. So I am feeling shame.
At this time, CHAHA project staffs came to house and provided counseling to my family. Our family situation started to change. They gave counseling to me and make me to think about my future, now I am concentrating in my studies and aware about my Life. Thanks to CHAHA project staffs.
Note: Clients mother was also infected with AIDS/HIV and taking ART medicine. But her children don’t know about her situation.
The Before and After
My name is Lakshmi and I am living at Mullipallam Village, Vadipatti Taluk, in Madurai District. I joined in a SHG (Self Help Group) which started by PACHE Trust during the year 1996.
Before I joined in the group, I didn’t know anything about the external world. I am lived under the male domination and I thought that it was the fate of women in the world especially in India. After repeated interventions by the PACHE Trust project team I came forward to join at the SHG as a Member. During that time, I don’t have any saving and a bank account. Even I am very shy to communicate with others and I am very hesitated to go out of my house. I worked as a Coolie (daily labourer) and I managed the family within my earnings and I am fully dependent on males for all other activities at the home and outside.
Whenever a meeting was conducted at the village, the male only can able to participate at the meetings. Women are not participated during the meetings. We didn’t know anything about village meetings and Grama Saba. In politics also, the men folk only can participate at the village level. I have some difficulties in hearing, I can manage without using the hearing aid because of my shyness and culture. It created me an inhibition to my contacts with the external world. I thought as an ordinary women living in a kitchen is the life of mine. But the changes have happened when I joined a member at the SHG.
After I joined in SHG, saving habit has started in my family. And I also have a bank account near my village nationalized bank. It makes me very proud and confident. I had a loan from the SHG and I bought a COW and I started selling milk to the society. Again I got a loan from the bank and I bought another COW and it improved my financial position after regular payment of the loan. I relieved from the inferiority complex and I provided good education and nutrition to my children. It gave me satisfaction and social status at the society.
The reinforcement of the information which provided during the Mahalir Thittam meetings and trainings programme has improved my leadership qualities and the group members requested me to contest the local body election at the village panchayat. With the support of Self Help Groups and the public, I became the village panchayat President at the first time. Now as a President for the village panchayat, I am discharging my duties towards the development of women, children and rural development activities. I am very proud to say after I joined in the group only I came to know to put my signature without any spelling mistake.
I am very thankful for Mahalir Thittam, PACHE Trust and fellow women for this remarkable changes in my life and I am assured, I will disseminate the same to others towards women emancipation and empowerment.