CST's Project Strategy
child development, womens empowerment, health improvementSince 1990, CST has been providing the poor rural and urban people of the Salem and Namakkal communities with enlightenment, guidance and strength to make their lives and their environment better. Through the years, CST has remained faithful in its dedication to community empowerment and development, by protecting human rights and teaching and implementing social, economic, health and environmental improvement strategies. To acheive its goals, CST has built a project strategy in which most of its activities are centered on child development, womens empowerment and health improvement. Their other activities focus on social and economic development and environmental protection.
Success in Womens Empowerment and Health Care!
CST's proudest accomplishment to date is their newest and largest program, Mahalir Thittam. This program has solidified an expansive network of 1750 dedicated women's Self-Help Groups in the surrounding Salem and Namakkal areas through which other community health care and village improvement projects are being carried out. The most successful of these has been the DANIDA funded Community Health Action Project.
Child Enrollment Program (CEP)
After great success in the fields of women's empowerment and health improvement, in 2002 CST will be focusing on child development. The plans are to initiate a program to enroll at least 1000 children of the Salem and Namakkal in government schools and stop the destructive circle of child labor, ignorance, and illiteracy in the community. For more information, see the project description.
Below you will find detailed descriptions, organized by catagory, of each of CST's projects and the results and restraints they have faced over the past year.
Child Development
ensuring child rights and child development by providing educational programs, a home for needy children, day care, and human rights awareness programs
Child Development Day Care Center (CDC) Half-Way Home (HWH) Child Rights Advocacy (CRA) Womens Empowerment
unionizing women in Self-Help Groups for collective action, leadership, protection of rights as well as financial savings; providing entrepreneurial, vocational, marketing and human resources training; counseling, guidance and support to women and their families
Mahalir Thittam (MT) Family Counseling Center (FCC) Vocational Training Program (VTP) Health Improvement
health networking and linking activities, AIDS awareness programs, counseling and promotion of community health
Community Health Action Project (CHEAP) AIDS/HIV Prevention Program (APP) Dr. Tiphagne Blood Donors Club (BC) Social and Economic Development
providing economic empowerment and development programs; unionizing and developing scheduled caste and scheduled tribe villages; providing social and economic support and guidance to the the poor, neglected and handicapped
Sanitary Mart Project (SAM) & Village Development Project (TVDC) Physically Challenged People Project (PCP) Bonded Labour Project (BL) Environmental Protection
agricultural awareness support, organic farming and reforestation programs
Organic Farming (OF) Environmental Action Green Belt (GB) There are multiple ways that you or your organization can contribute to the noble aims of CST. For more information, our sponsorship section gives specific donation options.
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