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Annai Therasa Trust children sponsorship's gives hope, love, and life's essentials to one child at a time.

We work for the protection of the rights of all children in general. But our special focus is on all children in need of care and protection, especially the more vulnerable sections, which include:

• Street children and youth living alone on the streets

• Child labourers working in the unorganised and organized sectors

• Domestic help, especially girl domestics

• Children affected by physical / sexual / emotional abuse in family, schools or institutions.

• Children who need emotional support and guidance

• Children of commercial sex workers

• Child victims of the flesh trade

• Victims of child trafficking

• Children abandoned by parents or guardians

• Missing children

• Run away children

• Children who are victims of substance abuse

• Differently-abled children

• Children in conflict with the law

• Children in institutions

• Mentally challenged children

• HIV/ AIDS infected children

• Children affected by conflict and disaster

• Child political refugees

• Children whose families are in crises

According to UNICEF, India has more malnourished children under the age of five than any other country in the world.

By Sponsoring $30/month, a child can get food, shelter, medical care, clothing, education, and vocational training. Your sponsorship will change their life.

Our Mission Statement

Our mission is to help alleviate poverty, promote health and a clean environment, and strengthen democratic institutions and values in developing countries. We strive to accomplish these objectives by implementing several innovative and bold solutions that would bring about long-term sustainable results.

We believe in integrated holistic approaches to solving most human problems. Accordingly, the combined goals of our projects are to:

• create economic opportunity for all, especially the needy, through planned development,
• provide good rural health education and rural healthcare in India,
• improve the quality of education generally, and promote exceptional talent,
• encourage arts and crafts, and offer opportunities for creative work,
• bring about social equality, fairness, and dignity of life, especially for women and deprived communities,
• assure the preservation of nature, use resources carefully, and protect the environment,
• support activities that satisfy the spiritual needs of the community, and
• increase public participation in the governance of the country.

We hope that our initiatives will improve the lives of the poor, and bring dignity to their existence. We intend to help create communities that are economically stable and self-sustaining in the longer term, enjoy quality healthcare, social harmony and equality, and provide opportunity for all.

All our projects shall be carefully structured and implemented to be true to this mission. In every instance, we shall commit ourselves to constantly improving on what we have done before. We offer no philosophy of our own, and our conduct shall be dictated by universal truths and values.

About Us

ANNAI THERASA SOCIAL WELFARE EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE TRUST

Good works are links that form a chain of love. 

- Mother Teresa

ANNAI THERASA SOCIAL WELFARE EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE TRUST is founded to create an empowered and equitable society that systemically address livelihood and education. This non profit organization floated by a team of dedicated and wholly committed personal specializing in the area of vital social contribution. The trust aims to provide programs to educate poor and rise funds to support their education. So far many children's residing in and around Chidambaram are benefited through us. We are working to create an empowered and equitable society that systemically address livelihood and education. We address livelihood issues of the working poor through organising the informal sector workforce into worker-owned enterprises and providing supportive marketing and business structures to ensure success of the collectives.

Main Objectives :

• Promoting the social model of intervention in partnership with people who use services and carers

• Working with other professionals and support workers

• Intervening to protect vulnerable people when appropriate

• Promoting human growth and developing individual capability

• Building awareness of structural oppression, power, service user rights and responsibilities, and social inclusion.

• To promote and protect the welfare of Indian people by founding institutions of Education in Tamil Nadu and in India, in the sphere of Health science, Medical Sciences, Engineering Technology, Pharmacy, Management Studies, Agriculture, Arts, Science, Applied Science, Commerce, Teacher Education, Physical Education, Legal Education, Photography and all other and all other left out fields and general Education and education of all types and disiplines right from Nursing up to the highest level.

• To train and coach students for various examinations and contests.

• To Serve the younger generations of this country by means of education in general or industrial, technical vocational professional, management, medicine either by way of residential course or correspondence course.

Why Educate ?

• Educated mothers are 50% more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling (Net Aid). It is a well known fact that the acquisition of literacy and numeracy, especially by women, has an impact upon fertility.

• More recently, it has become clear that the cognitive skills required to make informed choices about HIV/AIDS risk and behavior are strongly related to levels of education and literacy.

• Increases Agricultural Productivity and Reduces MalnutritionMore productive farming due to increased female education accounts for 43% of the decline in malnutrition achieved between 1970 and 1995 (Net Aid).

• Failure to educate girls and women perpetuates needless hunger. Gains in women's education contributed most to reducing malnutrition between 1970 and 1995, playing a more important role than increased food availability (L. Smith and L. Haddad, 'Explaining Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries.

• ' International Food Policy Research Institute Research Report No. 111 - Washington DC: International).Raises Productivity and IncomeThere is good evidence to suggest that the quality of education - as measured by test scores - has an influence upon the speed with which societies can become richer and the extent to which individuals can improve their own productivity and incomes.

• It is well established that the distribution of personal incomes in society is strongly related to the amount of education people have had. (EFA Global Monitoring Report)Research shows high private returns to primary education, as long as it is measured in terms of attainment of basic skills and not years spent in school. (M. Boissiere, 'Rationale for Public Investment in Primary Education in Developing Countries', World Bank IEG, 2004)

Why Women Empowerment ?

• Achievements and Role of Department of Women and Child DevelopmentThe provisions of the Constitution of India granting equality to women in various spheres creates the legal framework within which the Department of Women & Child Development functions for women's development. Women as a mother hood of the nation should be strong, aware and alert; that is main motto of the Department and mother with child is the future of the nation. formulating strategies and initiating processes to bring women into the mainstream. Women constitute half of the country's population (accounting for 407.1 million in absolute numbers as per the 1991 census), and it is abundantly clear that there can be no development unless their needs and interests are fully taken into account. to protect and safeguard the rights of women.to give the much needed impetus to the holistic development of women and children. For advancement of women and children.

• All these efforts are directed to ensure that women are empowered both economically and socially and thus become equal partners in national development along with men.The major policy initiatives undertaken by the Department in the recent past include the establishment of the National Commission.

Helping Physically Challenged :

• Rehabilitation of people who are physically challenged is another priority of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (External website that opens in a new window). Special care is provided to them through District Disability Rehabilitation Centres (External website that opens in a new window), institutes and NGO's. People with physical disabilities include the visually impaired, hearing impaired and amputees. Disabled people need different types of rehabilitation depending on the extent of their injury. Patients are evaluated by a team of specialists and are counselled along with their families. Rehabilitation involves processes to help patients live a decent standard of life with their handicap.

• Rehabilitation for the blind involves learning the sighted guide technique, the use of the white cane, reading and writing the Braille language and performing household chores without sight. They are taught vocational skills in fields where blindness is not a handicap like candle making and other crafts. Some may be provided visual aids.

• People who have lost a limb due to a disease or accident receive reconstructive surgery. Later on they may be provided with an artificial leg like a Jaipur foot, a calliper or crutches. They are then taught how to walk with new aid they receive and are given vocational training to help them get a job.

• Deaf and Mute people may be recommended surgery or fitted with a hearing aid or ear mould depending on their unique condition. Those who haven't learnt to speak as yet (children below five) are given speech therapy that includes learning the sign language, lip reading and other pointers.

• Depending on their situation, a few disabled people may also be prescribed medications and surgery of different types. The rehabilitation process in all cases involves follow up treatment where the patient is rechecked at periodic intervals.