Vaan Muhil Trust has been working with vulnerable and underserved communities in Tamil Nadu to improve access to education, livelihood opportunities, community development services, and social welfare programmes. Through participatory approaches and capacity-building initiatives, the organization strives to support inclusive and sustainable development for all.
Vaan Muhil Trust is a community development and social welfare organization established in 1996, working towards the empowerment and socio-economic advancement of underprivileged communities. The organization promotes educational development, constitutional awareness, community participation, livelihood enhancement, women and child development, knowledge dissemination, and capacity-building initiatives for community leaders and civil society organizations. Vaan Muhil Trust also facilitates access to information, government services, welfare schemes, and institutional support systems.
VISION
A just and compassionate society where children are protected, women and youth are empowered, and all workers live with dignity and opportunity.MISSION
Vaan Muhil takes up initiatives and strategies to empower and mainstream the vulnerable communities through a process of inform-enable-collective action'; facilitates communities to discuss, prioritize, decide, access and control on all that concern their development; follows multi-stakeholder approach and multipronged strategies such as Mobilizing Communities, Taking up Community Based Development Interventions, Public Education Programmes, Action Research and documentation and meaningful engagements with policy makers and elected representatives.OBJECTIVES
- To develop human rights culture through training programmes for college students, youth, women, teaching community and development agencies.
- To engage in public education programmes to highlight key rights issues and building public opinion on the issues.
- To undertake innovative community based programmes that will ensure socio economic development and make people partakers in the development processes
- To conduct capacity building and skill development programmes to increase the livelihoods and employability of rural youth.
- To initiate student support programmes for developing the potentials of poor students so that they continue their studies
- To conduct seminars and conferences on important issues so that public discussions and debate could be carried forward towards making pro poor policies.
- To forge networks and alliances to jointly work towards effecting changes at the macro level in the policies and programmes.
TARGET GROUPS
- Children
- Rural Youth
- Victims of human rights violations
- Working Adolescent girls
- Migrant Workers
- Unorganized Sector
- Civil Society groups
- Elected local body members
