A DREAM VILLAGE: MEVALURKUPPAM
“Dream Village” – A village being dreamt of through the CSR knot of FSL India & Hyundai India… It is a village Mevalurkuppam, Sriperumbudur block in Kancheepuram District. What is the special about the village! Bringing up the Dream village into reality starts up on January – June 2015. The basic objective of village to be Dream village is bring out the holistic development and reaching the sustainability in the development at all aspects – improving Green coverage, Clean environment, empowering women socially and economically, imparting social development skills, improving the etc..
In this aspect, the environmental activities such as Tree Plantation (Green coverage) with tree guard, fruit tree plantation, Kitchen garden promotion etc are undertaken; motivating cattle rearing – imparting the skills of cattle rearing by donating the goats for selected beneficiary and they will pass on the sibling goat to the other household and “passing on like a gift”; Among the women empowerment, Skill training for entrepreneurship imparting to the women SHG such as Tailoring, Computer training, pickle making, papat making, candle making…
On the top of it, the Indian bank have seen all the initiatives and have given the loans to few groups – they are into starting small scale business of Pickle Making; imparting information on menstrual hygiene to women, adolescent girls etc; Forming new groups among adolescent and women, physically challenged etc.
And also in the educational arena, forming children parliament to make the children responsible citizen and imparting them hygienic practices through several session by different modes; forming and promoting sports clubs. At the Sanitation level, building up the toilets to the household not having toilets; imparting the toilet beneficiaries the importance of toilet and how to maintain it clean, how to use the waste water etc; are undertaken… The initiation of making the village – a Dream Village has been undertaken and the process is going on to make a Dream Village – a REALITY.