VIDIYAL NEWS
01.02.2025 Ripple Circle – Social Action Forum at 3 Centres (Samanatham, Keelakuyilkudi and Thethankulam)
02.02.2025 Thoorihai – Drawing & Painting Forum
04.02.2025 Community Awareness on Child Rights and Child Protection at Dr.Kabeer Nagar
06.02.2025 Training on Personality Development
08.02.2025 Ripple Circle – Social Action Forum at 3 Centres (Anupanadi, Mottamalai, Malaisamypuram)
09.02.2025 Quarterly Trainings
09.02.2025 Quarterly Training at Cluster 2
10.02.2025 Quarterly Training at Cluster 1
11.02.2025 Community Awareness on Child Rights and Child Protection at Mottamalai
13.02.2025 Training on Helping and Sharing
15.02.2025 Ripple Circle – Social Action Forum at 3 Centres (Perunkudi, Nilaiyur and Soundarapandian Nagar)
16.02.2025 Ripple Circle – Social Action Forum
16.02.2025 Quarterly Training at Cluster 3
22.02.2025 Ripple Circle – Social Action Forum at 3 Centres (Valayankulam, Thanakkankulam and Dr.Kabir Nagar)
23.02.2025 Picnics to Places of Nature’s Bounty

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.