THE CHIPHI FOUNDATION

 THE CHIPHI FOUNDATION

 The Chiphi Foundation is a registered social service organizationoperating  from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. It registered under Indian trustAct  in2002  at Madurai.

 OBJECTIVES

·         To help the marginalized people to obtain full round development in health, wealth, knowledge and rehabilitation

  To enable the raw handed unemployed poor unskilled youth to obtain free or subsidized industrial training so that he or she lives a dignified life by using his or her new skill for livelihood earnings.

 The founder trustees are youths and are well dedicated to the cause of upgrading the suffering population through individual assistance, community programs and emergency relief works. The Youth while forming the Trust resolved to

           Give priority to the needs and interests of the people they serve;

• Encourage self-help and self-reliance among beneficiaries and thus avoid creating dependencies;

• Involve beneficiary groups to the maximum extent possible in the design, implementation and evaluation of projects and programs;

• Respect and foster internationally recognized human rights, both socio-economic and civil-political;
• Work to enhance gender equity; and
• Work based on an understanding of the history and culture of the people served.
• It does not discriminate against any person or group of persons on grounds of sex, religion caste or creed.
• It is secular and democratic in character and should do nothing which may incite communal disharmony.
• It does not directly function for the furtherance of interest of any political party.

TRUSTEE DETAILS

 A S Rajarajan

 A recipient of President Award for the excellence in social service in 1984-85, at the age 17 in recognition of his unflinching commitment to social service, Mr. Rajarajan shown his predilection to social service in his choice of career and in identifying with the problems of people given to various kinds of deprivation. And hence it will seldom sound an exaggeration to say that The Chiphi Foundation is all high bound up with his innate predisposition, his experience which has gained from working in various organization, inspiration which he has derived from the project leaders a deep seated concern for the impoverished lot and above all, with the need to make organized intervention no matter how small it is if not to arrest the problem but to abate to arrest the issue best

 PARTNERSHIP AND AFFILIATION

 The Chiphi Foundation is district member in Madurai in Sarva Siksha Abhiyan Scheme of Government of India.  We honour this as our great work.

            Sarva Sikhsa Abhiyan

• Tamil Nadu Rural Livelihood Mission
• PudhuVazhvu Project, Tamil Nadu-are our other partners.

·         National Book Trust of India

 1.                CHIPHI FOUNDATION Entrepreneurship Development Training Council

CHIPHI FOUNDATION’s EDTC (Entrepreneurship Development Training Council) has been a registered Trust founded for socio-economic development services among the grasss-root level poor in Madurai District in Tamil Nadu, India.

 2.                Activities:

 Women Self-Help group formation and Training

·         Animators and Representatives Training

·         Capacity Building Training

·         Skill Development Training

·         Para-legal awareness Training

·         Reproductive Mother & Child care Awareness Camp

·         HIV Aids Prevention/Awareness Camps

·         Environment Conservation, Water and Sanitation Awareness camps

·         Accessing Micro credit linkage from Banks

·         Accessing Government Social Security Benefits

3.                Strategies Adopted:

Training : In-campus and Out-campus

·         Awareness Camps : One-to-one and one-to-two

·         Group Discussion

·         Success Stories

·         Exposure Visit

·         Providing IEC materials

·         Inter NGO visits

·         Government Trainings

4.                Activities:

Entrepreneurship Skill Development Training Council

CHIPHI schedules Entrepreneurship Training to SHG members for a period of   7 days. Now that having undergone training on the canons of entrepreneurship, the qualities of an entrepreneur, the different sources of Enterprises, developing the knowledge on Markets and marketing, Administration, the planning and the govt. schemes, the women in the SHG exercise strategies in improving production, service and trading of their products. We provide training in following trades,

 Sanitary Napkin

b.      Jewel Making

c.       Kundan Jewelry

d.      Sambirani

e.      Paper products and bags

f.        Terracotta dolls

g.      Millets cooking

h.      paper dolls – thanjavoor doll, chettiar doll

i.        Gel Candle

j.        Mushroom Cultivation

k.       Appalam products

l.        Catering

 

b.      Women Self-Help Group Formation and Training:

Vulnerable, poor at slums and villages are grouped for forming SHGs. They are educated on women integration, coordination, thrift management, Banking, group saving and lending money and accessing Government social security benefit schemes.

c.       Animators and Representatives Training:

Skilled women who volunteer are selected and trained to be leaders of SHGs for sustainable functioning. The trained leaders collect saved money from women SHG members and lend among them, maintain registers, books and conduct monthly meetings with transparency. These women lead other members to Bank and Govt. departments and lobby for accessing micro-credit and social security benefits respectively.

 Capacity Building Training:

As the target women are found to be not educated, they are trained to improve their innate talents for lobbying Bank and Govt. Personnel and the elected local body heads for accessing micro-credit support, govt. social-security benefits and basic amenities respectively. Leadership qualities are enumerated and the SHG members are trained to write and submit petitions. They are advised to give up their timidity and encouraged to come-up in life and face challenges created even by anti-social elements in their respective dwelling areas.

 Vocational Skill Development Training:

The Women in SHGs are trained to improve their skills to make consumer products at their dwelling places viz. phenyl, soap-oil, washing blue, cleaning powder and pickles. They are trained to sell their products in and around their residential area. The women are also trained on Beautician course, catering Fast-food and Event management.

 Para-legal training:

Providing orientation on para-legal activities is one of the supports for the women. They are imparted with basic legal means of support, facts pertaining to the protection on Women Rights are read, displayed and explained. Different case-studies are shared among the participants. Domestic issues, matrimonial rifts between husband and wife, domestic violence, dowry harassment and complaints about male chauvinism are discussed and the women are guided to submit petitions against the offender in the ALL WOMEN POLICE STATION at respective areas.

 Re-productive Mother and Child care camps:

Health care awareness sensitization is provided to the SHG women on improving pre-natal, post-natal and neo-natal care, nutrition, mother feeding, family planning, HIV blood testing and periodical medical check-up. Pregnant women and mothers with children are advised to visit primary health centresnear by for administering polio drops for their children and immunization.

 HIV / AIDS prevention:

The poor at slums and villages are quite ignorant of understanding the basic facts on the life killing infection HIV / AIDS. The inebriated poor men most often tempted to have multi sexual pleasure with women causing Sexually Transmitted Infection [STI] in them which results infecting their wives. AIDS Awareness Campsamong the poor are being conducted to wipe out the myths and misconception about AIDS through IEC materials. Abstinence ,be faithful and condom usage(ABC) approach is basically infused among the women. The suspected and the infected are given pre and post blood testing counselling.  

 Environmental Conservation:

Under SWATCHH BARATH scheme of India women are advised and guided to keep their living environment clean. They are taught to conserve water by rain water harvesting system and maintain drinking water sources. The women are taught to develop kitchen garden and on solid waste management.

 Number of Branches

 a.      Madurai Bank Colony

b.      b.  ThavittuSanthai

c.       c. Naganakulam

 

YEAR OF EXPERIENCE

 Since 2002 we conduct youth men and women developmentskill  training program

 Youth skill training

b.      Entrepreneurship development training

c.       Environmental awareness and promotion program

d.      Self confidence for students program

e.      Health camp, Tsunami relief

 TRAINING AND PLACEMENT

 Incampus training

b.      Outcampus training

 About 2000 youth have been trained and placed in self employed units Single Women who lead the families were given priority in Madurai district.