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S.No. |
Activity |
Achievements |
| 1. |
Rural Students Capacity Building Programme.
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In the year 1971 we commenced a programme called Students Capacity Building Programme in rural villages in the working area of AMK. The following components of activities were conducted through RSCBCs-Rural Students Capacity Building Centres- in 11 centres. The following activities were conducted in the centres.Ø Talent development coaching and competitions.Ø Specialised academic coaching [evening tuition] on class lessons.Ø Communication capacity Development.Evening programmes were conducted on all the above components of activities. In each centre an average of 30 students of various standards/degree level participated and benefited. Local coach/trainer/teachers were engaged in molding the students in the above three areas. This programme was conducted for three years during the time over 15000 college students and 20000 school students benefited from the programme. |
| 2. |
Balwady Centres:Nos.10 |
We conducted 10 Balwady centres during the year 1976 to 1979. 25 children attended in each centre and thus each year 250 children benefited. During the 4 year period 1000 children benefited. The children developed health and hygiene habits and got basic literacy. They were motivated and subsequently enrolled in school. The outgoing children were followed up and their continuance in schooling was monitored. Children from families below poverty line and marginalized were preferred in the Balwady centres. |
| 3. |
Educational and Health Development of Children |
AMK started a home for destitute children in 1979. The main aim of this programme is to fulfil the health and educational needs of destitute children. The children are provided periodic health check up and their health conditions are maintained with proper medicare. We have attached a mini clinic in the home with a visiting doctor and paramedical staff. The children are sent to school and their educational needs are also fulfilled. From the start of the home in 1979, 750 destitute children have availed health care and education as inmates of the home. At present we are providing education and health care for 30 destitute children through the home.Ø This programme is still continuing |
| 4. |
Vocational Training in Tailoring for unemployed rural poor women. |
To mitigate poverty through employment generation we conducted a tailoring training unit during 1985 to 1995. Each year 22 women were trained. Thus, during the 11 year period of this programme a total of 242 women were trained. Many of the trained women are now running own tailoring units and others are working in tailoring centres for salary. Their socio economic conditions have improved substantially. Since they are in our working area we are still monitoring their activities. |
| 5. |
Drug Awareness, Counselling and Assistance centre. |
With the assistance from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment we conducted Drug Awareness, Counselling and Assistance centre from the year 1995 to 1999. Through this programme we motivated the drug/alcohol users to refrain from drugs through awareness, couselling and follow up assistance. We conducted this programme covering throughout Kanyakumari district. We covered a population of over 25OO drug addicts and referred them for treatment. |
| 6. |
Drug de-addiction treatment cum rehabilitation centre. |
Through our Drug Awareness, Counselling and Assistance centre we realized the need for a de-addiction treatment cum rehabilitation centre. With assistance from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment we got sanction for a de-addiction centre. We are running a de-addiction treatment cum rehabilitation centre from the year 1999. This programme is continuing till date. The centre is 15 bedded. Through this centre we campaign and identify the addicted persons and admit them in the de-addiction cenetre. We are providing them a course of treatment comprising detoxification, individual counseling, group therapy, group activity, spouse counseling, family counseling, yoga therapy and rehabilitation to the needy persons. Since the inception of this centre we provided treatment to over 1400 addicted persons as inpatients.In the same programme we are also providing treatment to outpatient addicts. So far we have provided outpatient treatment to over 4000 persons affected by drugs/alcohol.We have achieved over 90% of the addicted persons give up the habit and started a drug-free life. We also followed up the relapsing cases.Ø This programme is still continuing. |
| 7 |
Mobile Counselling in collaboration with all women police station. |
This programme was started in the year 2002. The counselors of our organization and the police from all women police station visit the disputed families in the villages, counsel them and settle the disputes. Follow up measures like persuasion or legal assistances are provided to settle family disputes. Several cases of drug addicts were identified in this process and treated in our de-addiction centres. So far we have counseled over 1200 families in which we achieved about 70% of the family disputes settled amicably. Ø This programme is still continuing. |
| 8. |
Alcoholic Anonymous-AA and AL-Anon [groups of spouses of the addicts] Programme.
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This programme was started in the year 2003. Three centres are functioning at different places. The persons who gave up drug/alcohol conduct meeting in these centres once a week and discuss their present conditions. They share the good impacts they enjoyed after giving up addiction.The wives of the persons who gave up drug/alcohol also conduct meeting separately and share their experiences after their husband gave up addiction. These meetings are very useful to attract other addicted persons from the area to take treatment in our de-addiction cenetre. Ø This programme is still continuing. |
| 9. |
PREVENTION OF HIV/AIDS- A COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMME WITH NACO. |
With assistance from NACO through the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment we started conducting a HIV/AIDS awareness programme in Kanyakumari district from the year 2004. We were provided this programme by the Ministry as we are successfully conducting the de-addiction centre. Through this programme we are providing HIV/AIDS awareness to the addicted patients in our de-addiction centre, school and college students, SHG women and the general public.Ø This programme is still going on. |
| 10. |
JJ Counseling-Juvenile Justice Counseling Observation Progtramme at Tirunelveli. |
This programme was started in 2004. Through this programme our counselors visit the children sheltered in Siruvar Seerthirutha Palli located at Tirunelveli. The counselors pay this visit twice a month. So far they have paid 48 such visits and counseled over 50 to 75 children. Ø This programme is still going on |
| 11. |
College Girls Hostel Counseling. |
This programme was started in the year 2004. The counselors of our organization discuss with the hostellers and provide them awareness about evils of drugs, impact of HIV/AIDS and teach them moral and ethics. The counselors pay two visits per month. They are now covering 10 women’s hostels through this programme.Ø This programme is still continuing. |
| 12. |
PPTCT Programme-under GFATM project- through TANSACS.
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The main aim of this programme is to prevent transmission of HIV/AIDS from mother to child. We are interacting with ANCs in Kanykaumari district. The target is 27000 ANCs per year. We started this programme from the year 2005. So far we have identified 22000 ANCs and conducted blood check ups. In case of positive results we provide them neverapin medicines and prevent mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS. We have so far identified 8 HIV positive ANCs and provided them treatment and ensured deliveries in which there was no HIV transmission to the child. Two such HIV positive ANCs are waiting for delivery who are under our treatment.Also, we are conducting HIV/AIDS awareness programme among VHNs, Anganwadis, government and private hospital staff, ANCs, SHGs, school and college students.We are conducting this programme in coordination with PHCs, Government hospitals, Kanyakumari medical college, Private hospitals and the government health officials.50 PLHAs are under our care in this programme. Ø This programme is going on |
| 13. |
Family Health Awareness Campaign.
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Family Halth Awareness Campaign was conducted from 14th to 28th in the month of November 2005 under the sponsorship of TANSACS-Chennai. FHA camps were conducted in 59 villages during the time mentioned above. The following activities were conducted as part of the camps. Meeting with the village leaders, Panchayat officials, Rotary and Fan clubs, Self Help Groups and Traders associations and with their support the local people were organized in the camps.Placed notice boards at various places and attracted the local people for the camps.Provided basic information and motivation for maintaining better health and promoting family welfare to the rural parents. IEC materials were distributed and information on family health and family welfare was disseminated among the rural masses.Referrals were made for the cases found to have serious health problems identified in the camps. The camps were very useful to promote knowledge and motivation among the rural people to encourage them to achieve better health and family welfare . |
| 14. |
Street Play Campaigns. |
With a view to promote awareness among the tribes along the Tamil Nadu Kerala bordering areas on drug addiction, protection of forest resources, natural resource conservation and environment protection we conduct periodic street plays in tribal habitations in Kanyakumari district. We started this programme in 2005. So far we have conducted 8 such street play awareness programmes and covered over 3000 tribes.Ø This is also a continuous programme. |
| 15 |
PEER LED INTERVENTION PROJECT. |
The aim of this program is to reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS among drug users. We started this programme in Feb 2006 sponsored by DFID, SPYM, FINGODAP, UNODC AND RRTCs. We identify the drug users and their risk behaviours especially IDUs and provide them motivation to give up drug if not teach them to be risk free. So far we have identified 375 cases in which we have referred over 100 persons and following up with others. Ø This is an ongoing programmes. |
| 16 |
‘V care U’ volunteer force. |
We have started a ‘V care U’ volunteer force in Kanyakumari district with presently 50 volunteers. The aim of this effort is to create drug-free villages through the volunteers from the same village. We select volunteers from the targeted village and train them to motivate the drug addicts to give up drug and also enlighten them on the HIV/AIDS. We provide full knowledge to the volunteers on these two aspects who in turn work for making their own village drug free and HIV/aids free. So far these volunteers have covered 43 villages. We intend to cover the whole of Kanyakumari district through this programme. |
| 17. |
RAPID ASSESSMENT OF IDUs. |
This programme was given by SHARON from New Delhi. This is a survey of IDUs in Kanyakumari district. We conducted a 2month survey and identified 100 Intra drug users [injecting persons] and are planning to intervene with them to relieve them from IDU. There are still more IDUs in the district and we are continuing the survey. Ø This programme is continuing |
| 18. |
AMK FREE CLINIC |
We have been running a clinic through which we are providing round the clock treatments preferably to people who cannot afford private health providers. We provide them treatment for minor ailments and refer cases with serious problems to the government hospitals. We are running this free clinic for the past 12 years. So far over 10000 persons have benefited from the clinic. Ø This is an ongoing programme. |
| 19. |
WORLD ANTI DRUG DAY.
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We observed world anti drug day on the 26th June 2006 as usual. We conducted an elocution completion for school and college students on the topic ‘drug addiction can be cured through treatment’. Also we distributed posters with slogans on anti-drug supplied by UNODC and the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. We also conducted a workshop on ‘Drug abuse’ in Vivekananda School. The district collector kick-started an anti-drug sticker pasting campaign organized by our organization pasting the sticker on his car. The campaign was well appreciated by the government officials, NGOs and the public. We are conducting this programme every year. |
| 20. |
AMK Multi purpose training centre. |
We have a training centre attached to our office at Mondaikad. We provide especially training on health issues to health personnel of private and government health service centres/hospitals, paramedical staff, village health nurses, Anganwadis, SHG members, youth volunteers, students of schools and colleges and leaders in tribal groups. This training centre has been serving us to build capacities among these groups so that they address the health issues successfully. |
