VIDIYAL NEWS
05.06.2025 Life Skill Education: Handling Emotions
06.06.2025 Community Awareness on Child Rights and Child Protection at Soundrapandiyan Nagar
07.06.2025 Training on Folk Dance – Lezim at 6 Centres (Samanatham, Keelakuyilkudi and Thethankulam, Perunkudi, Nilaiyur and Soundrapandiyan Nagar)
09.06.2025 Mothers Meet at 3 Centres (Valayankulam, Thanakkankulam and Dr. Kabir Nagar)
10.06.2025 Mothers Meet at 3 Centres (Perunkudi, Nilaiyur and Soundrapandiyan Nagar)
11.06.2025 International Day of Play (IDOP)
12.06.2025 Workshop on Know about Plants
12.06.2025 Mothers Meet at 3 Centres (Samanatham, Keelakuyilkudi and Thethankulam)
13.06.2025 Mothers Meet at 3 Centres (Anupanadi, Mottamalai and Malaisamypuram)
14.06.2025 Mothers Meet at Main centre
14.06.2025 A Day in Bus Library – Heera Nagar Centre & Ambedkar Nagar Centre
14.06.2025 Training on Folk Dance – Lezim at 6 Centres (Anupanadi, Mottamalai, Malaisamypuram, Valayankulam, Thanakkankulam and Dr. Kabir Nagar)
15.06.2025 Announcement of Election 2025-2026
15.06.2025 Father’s Day Celebration at All Centres
16.06.2025 Community Awareness on Child Rights and Child Protection at Valayankulam
16.06.2025 Mothers Meet at Melavasal 1 & 2
17.06.2025 Mothers Meet at Heera Nagar and Avaniyapuram 2
18.06.2025 Mother Meet at Subramaniyapuram
19.06.2025 Mothers Meet at Ambedkar Nagar
20.06.2025 Mothers Meet at Avaniyapuram 1 and 3
21.06.2025 Training on Street Theater at 6 Centres (Samanatham, Keelakuyilkudi and Thethankulam, Perunkudi, Nilaiyur and Soundrapandiyan Nagar)
22.06.2025 25th Child Rights Festival
22.06.2025 Athirvuhal Forum: Releasing Annual Magazine of Vidiyal Child Rights Movement
24.06.2025 Mothers Meet at Vallananthapuram
25.06.2025 Mothers Meet at Thiruparankundram
28.06.2025 Training on Social Audit of Children’s Issues (VCRM Urban and Rural)
29.06.2025 Election 2025-2026
29.06.2025 Training on Street Theater at 6 Centres (Anupanadi, Mottamalai, Malaisamypuram, Valayankulam, Thanakkankulam and Dr. Kabir Nagar)

WHO WE ARE

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WHO WE ARE

Sakthi is a registered nonprofit secular organization registered under Tamilnadu Societies Registration Act 27 of 1975 S.No.50 of 1993. Vidiyal was founded in 1996 as a program of Sakthi in the city of Madurai to provide safety and support to children in need of care and protection, especially – street children, runaway children, abandoned children, working children, children from excluded communities and children facing difficulties. Vidiyal provided the children with opportunities to work through their problems and offered support and guidance. Vidiyal focuses on the social inclusion of children, child rights and child participation.

Though Sakthi is the registered legal entity, VIDIYAL has gained the patronage from the general public, earned goodwill of the communities we partner with and attained popularity. Today we use Sakthi and Vidiyal inter changeably or sometimes together like Sakthi – Vidiyal to ensure a clear understanding of the nature of relationship. Though Vidiyal was initiated as a natural response to the need of that time, now it has grown beyond the charity mode and taken Children’s Rights as the frame work for its operation.

Background

Urban poverty in Tamilnadu in 93 -94 was reportedly at 80.4 Lakh. Children from marginalized, discriminated, migratory and disadvantaged communities living in congested unhygienic tenements are the worst affected by poverty. Inadequate schooling, verbal and corporal abuse in schools resulted in school dropouts. Children roaming in the streets are a common sight in the city of Madurai. Children, work as rag pickers, scavengers, polish shoes and do menial chores for low wages and are treated despicably as cheap labor in roadside shops and small eateries. Vidiyal was established to challenge the existing discriminatory practices faced by children in the family, society and in schools. Vidiyal enables these children who are at the bottom rung to avail opportunities for holistic growth through child resource centres and education. Vidiyal works to endorse and establish Child Rights.