Address: Gokul .M Founder Flame Club Trust Post Box No 4 Valparai(TK) Coimbatore
this trust is mainly involved in rural development especially concentrating on scheduled tribes, orphan children, abandoned widows, and physically challenged people. we have been assisting financial support to the poor children education, providing skill training such as tailoring, spoken english, computer training, giving awareness programs on consuming alcohol and drugs, safe environment, ill effect of using and burning plastic materials, health and hygiene, the importance of poor children education and conducting competitions to the school going children and college students to bring out their hidden talents.
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| Key Issues | • The labours especially females using scissors to cut the tea leaves are heavy and it leads shoulder pain. • Carrying heavy tea leaves bags on their head leads headache and back pain. • Safety measures like wearing gloves and masks are not followed by the labours during spraying medicines and manures leads asthma, allergies and wheezing problems. • There is no toilet or urinals in their work areas. Controlling urination and motion leads constipation, piles and urinary infections. Open defection causes diseases. • Lack of medical facilities for the chronic diseases and other major health issues will be the question mark of the patient’s life. • Consuming habit of alcohol in male labours (after their hard work in the tea gardens like pruning tea bushes and weeding) creates financial problems, family problems and health issues in the families. • Heavy rains of this hill station from May to November causes fever, cold and cough. • Air pollution, soil pollution and water pollution due to open defecation ,lack of drainages, and applying chemicals to tea bushes contribute health issues Problems of school going children, • The children from estate areas have to walk 1 to 2 kilometers to the bus stop to catch the bus to reach the schools and college in Valparai • In the evenings the children of local school from 1st standard to 5th standard have to spend their time alone at their house till their parents return from work. So the children will roam here and there, the children especially the female children are not safe during this time. • There is no safe place or tuition centres in the eatate areas. • Most of the school going children is sitting before the television and watching serials and films in the evening times. • After the Covid period most of the children forgot the letters and alphabets in languages.so the teachers are struggling much to reconstruct their standard of education. • Using drugs and consuming alcohol among the high school students and college students damage mental health, personality and attitudes of the students. Problems in families • The families have to adjust their all needs within their earnings. They need more money to educate their children, attend their family functions and celebrate their festivals. For these occasions they depend on money lenders and get money for higher rate of interest. • The labours have to pledge their ATM card to get money from the money lenders. The money lenders will take all the money in ATM as soon as the salary is deposited in the bank by the management of the plantations. • All family members have to live in single living room leads the adolescent children’s mind go in wrong way. • The drinking alcohol habit of the males in the family leads to suffer their day today family expenditure. • Inter caste and inter religious marriages are very vast in estate areas. • There are no other sources or jobs to earn additional income. Problems of wild animals • The problems of wild animals are very vast in this hill area. Elephants, leopard, cheetah, tigers, and bears give more troubles to the people. • It is very difficult to come out of the house in night times. • Many children and women have been attacking by elephants and leopards very often in estate areas. • It is very difficult to grow pet animals and domestic animals in estate areas because of increasing birth rate of tigers and leopards. • Elephants damage houses, water tanks and shops in dwelling areas in search of food and water. • Dangerous venomous snakes have seen everywhere in estate areas. • Monkeys and lion tailed macaques detach the roof (tiles) of the labour hosues and damage all house hold things. Problems of workers • In rainy season the workers have to work without any break. • There are no shelters in the work place to save themselves during the thunder rains. • The labours are compelled to work in the field from 8 am to 5.30pm in season times. • The troubles of wild animals hide inside the tea bushes. • The labours are forced to do overtime work. • They suffer with the bites of Snakes, Tick and Leaches. • Their income is not sufficient to meet the needs of children education. • The pressure of interest rates on their debts binds their hands to have nutritious food. • Many workers have allergies of chemicals, shoulder pain, hypertension, skin diseases, continuous cough and cold. • There is no safe drinking water in some of the estate areas. • The damaged urinals and toilets are very old and far away from their houses. • Living with children in one room, leaking roofs, no separate room for children to study, troubles of wild animals are the main problems facing by the labours. Main problems in Valparai There is no other source of income in Valparai. Only the works here are related to tea and coffee cultivation and production. All the lands are in the hands of the owners of tea and coffee plantation. So the graduates and technically qualified people are in compulsion to seek their proper jobs out of this hill area. Most of the people are here belong to Scheduled caste and scheduled tribes. it is very difficult them to mingle and adjust with city environment. So lack of employment opportunities and unemployment prevail here. In town area many poor people have lived in thatched muddy houses and they have no urinals and toilets. The government has built one toilet in each area. Each area consists of 40 to fifty families. They all have to use this one toilet. There are no proper sanitation and water supply in the toilet. In Corona period many young men were died due to this pandemic and the children and wives of them are now in poor living condition. They seek help to educate their children and a safe technical training for them. There are 15 Tribal settlements including sankarankudi, Kallarkudi, Udumpanparai, Cinchona, Kavarkal,Paramankudi, Sheikalmudi Edamalakudi and Vellimudi located 15 to 20 kilometers from valparai and most of them are lack of proper road facilities. Kadar, Muthuvar, Malai malasar communities have lived in these settlements. Totally 350 tribal families are here. They have lived in muddy bamboo thatched houses without electricity and basic facilities. Some social service societies here in Valparai formed Self Help Groups to eradicate the mentality of people dependency on money lenders. But this leads them a way to avail loans from Micro Finance institutions without the knowledge of the NGOs. Many money lenders have started microfinances Like Asirvatham Microfinance, Gramin Microfinance |
| Operational Area-States | Tamil Nadu |
| Operational Area-District | coimbatore |
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