Marking the 30th Anniversary of Sakthi – Vidiyal, we organized a community Pongal Celebration at Madurai College grounds. 50 families from Vidiyal’s partnering communities gathered and cooked sweet pongal. The air was filled with joyous shouts and colours. Fathers and mothers participated in events and won prizes.
During the half yearly vacation (26th to 31st December) the children belonging to the intermediate age group underwent a training called Sexual Health Intervention Programme. Mr.Anbu anchored sessions for boys and Ms.Preethi, Ms.Sophiya and Ms.Muthulakshimi anchored sessions for girls. Children were enabled to learn concepts and clarify their doubts on ‘sexual health’ through implementing scientifically tested modules. At the end […]
Master K.Janarthanan represented represented Tamilnadu at the National Consultation on Environment and Climate Change and its Impact on Children, 18th to 21st December at Kolkata organized by NACG-EVAC, India. On the 19th December at the Children’s Panel he articulated well all the points put forth by children of Tamilnadu at the hybrid State Consultation held on 5th November 2023.
The 23rd Child Rights festival of Vidiyal Child Rights Movement is designed by children themselves with a theme “Comrades for Child Rights” The festival began with a carnival with lot of fun stalls and eateries at St.Mary’s Higher Secondary School, Madurai. About 250 children participated in the Carnival. Children enjoyed participating in them and winning prizes. The valedictory function began […]
A Dream Come True There was a boy. When he was just 10 year old, he had a dream. He had a dream for his friends. He had a dream to widen the horizon of his friends living in this little Indian village called Kombai. He had a dream to break the chains of slavery and caste oppression. […]
Training for Staff and Volunteers Vidiyal believes in developing the potential of staff and volunteers who play a significant role in protecting the rights of our children. This quarter on the —- we organized a one day programme on “Developing Facilitating Skills”. We utilized the in-house resource and enabled the staff and volunteers to gain insight about their self. We […]
21st Anniversary of Sakthi – Vidiyal Every organization is known by its foot prints during its journey down the years. Sakthi – Vidiyal have been serving children from various disadvantaged backgrounds for the past two decades is now standing as a symbol of child rights protection in the city of Madurai, in Tamilnadu, South India. It is amazing to look […]
Organization People who respect India’s sovereignty would quite understand the existence of the law of the land, which takes care of any initiative of its citizens. A team of professionals including teachers, professors, social workers, social activist, and psychologists have signed the memorandum and articles of association of Sakthi and committed their knowledge, skill, time and energy for a […]
THE SPORTS TEAM Play and Recreation are right of every child. The sports team functions to ensure that children get opportunities to play. Apart from this periodical training in sports and games are conducted. Annual Pongal sports meet is organised by the team in the month of January to provide opportunities to the members of the children movement to exhibit […]
Success Academic and Technical 100% enrolment in school is attained in our work area. 13% have reached technical training where as the state average for children from excluded communities is just 0.6% 12% have reached graduation and post graduation where as the state average is mere 2.7% 1999 – Breaking all odds 5 children entered college. This brought great hope […]