SRADHA    

SOCIETY FOR RESEARCH AND 

DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN ABILITIES, 

TAMIL NADU , INDIA

 

Training centre funded by SD(B)

 

 

 

 

Dr. Gurdip Aurora of SRADHA 
in the Training Centre

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brick making machine 
manually operated

 

 

 

 

Bricks manufactured



 The focus of this project is the empowerment of the people in villages through development of human resources.  The main means for achieving this is through rural development with the introduction of appropriate technologies, providing the people with suggestions and administrative support.  Most of the programmes are organised through Women’s Self-Help Groups and a few vocationally based, mixed Self Help Groups.  A SRADHA farmers’ association has been formed to extend the message of nature-friendly agriculture to a larger number.

A training centre has been built in one of the villages where courses in sewing, computing, teachers’ training and health are offered.  The training centre was built with compressed soil bricks made locally.

SRADHA’s key aim is to provide TRAINING and SUPPORT for all villagers to :

·       Establish and run their own self-help groups.

·        Give equal, authoritative voice to women.

·        Develop new forms of farming: organic, less water dependent, more compost-making strategies aware.

·        Develop skills for new forms of employment to replace the diminishing capacity of the land for agriculture.

·        Develop effective marketing strategies.

·        Value and maintain local cultural expression.

·        Ensure education and training opportunities are available and used by youth.

·        Create effective early years and primary education for all participating villages.

·        Establish good models for dissemination to other villages.