A Movement for Empowering Women and Children

Mrs.Ammu and her children were living at a hut house in Mangadu,Narivanam salai. Her husband was a coolie (daily wages). didn't have proper house to stay and no proper income source. In Narivanam Salai, there were around 25 families who were working as Wood cutter, Snake catcher/charmer, daily wages, loading etc., since they didn't have any proper income source, these were not able to construct their house, no power supply, lack of water and sanitation facilities. Under WEEDS NGO, we constructed them 12 house to live and created awareness on the importance of Health and Hygiene. Like Mrs.Ammu WEEDS has constructed 189 houses in Mangadu & Kattupakkam areas with the support from Habitat for Humanity Trust India. All the families now living in a decent houses.

Mrs. Annakilli Arunachalam, from her childhood she wanted to do something for the society. she wished to become change maker in the society. But since she was from a rural background she couldn’t go to school after 6th std and was married at a very young age. But her interest towards to change the community has never stopped.She believed that only through gaining leadership power in he community would support her to achieve her dreams of changing the society. In the year 1997 she joined self-help groups (SHG) and trained about Leadership skill,women Rights and importance of community development. Later, she contested in the local body elections and became Mangadu 9th ward councilor. And her dream from childhood got fulfilled. She helped old age people to get their government old age pension scheme, helped disabled people to get their disability card, helped the women who faced violence and fought against many other social justice activities. Through WEEDS SHG activities learnt leadership skills & women rights and that was the moment where her whole life changed. She started doing all the activity aspired to do during her childhood days to work for the societies welfare.

Mrs.Anandalakshmi,In the year 2002, she came to know about WEEDS NGO and through them she got introduced to Self Help Group (SHG). WEEDS also supported her children by paying fees. From there she attended more SHG meetings and gained confidence. Her husband was very supportive and also encouraged her to go for a job. Then she joined as Consultant at Smart Security Services with a salary of Rs.3000 per month. From that company she learned about how to handle Manpower consultancy. Later, in the year 2007 she wanted to start her own Man power agency and approached WEEDS to help her start. WEEDS NGO helped Mrs.Anandalakshmi with all the legal formalities to start AR Manpower Allied Services. In the beginning she was getting only sub-contracts. But later in the year 2011, with her self- confidence and hard work got her direct Manpower contract at Parle Agro Pvt Ltd. From there she started to grow and fly with her victory. Her main objective of the agency was to give more opportunity to women employees. Now under her agency there are more than 200 women who work with different companies. she also serves as a PoSH Act trainer for WEEDS.