Sitheri is a notified tribal area during 1928 in Tamilnadu. the tribal communities are become voiceless. They are isolated from the main stream. We will promote their traditional cultural dancing with songs through which they will enlighten their day to day life style , we will produce short film and sent to medias .We will also publish in the local news papers and in the by monthly magazines.They use to play their own musical instruments.
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What locality or neighborhood will your project focus on?
SItheri Tribal area
Describe the specific community with whom you will be working.
We are working with tribal communities living in 62 hamlets consisting of 23500 population including children,They use to suffer by many water born disease because of using unsafe drinking water, the literacy percentage is also very low.They are economically and socially very poor. These difficulties have never been published in the medias and news papers. Our effort will bring them a change in their life,The world population will listen them.
What kinds of news, stories and other content will be created?
Our vision is to “make them known to the world”. They have their own traditional dancing with song , using their own musical instruments, we will translate their messages in to English and sent to your institution. The short film will be produce with technical staffs. We will include the children in the programme. Once the people see this film and listen the songs also the children”s voice it will attract many more kind hearted welshers
What technologies and digital tools do you plan to use in the trainings?
Other tools
Using news paers , folk meida with traditonal instrumetns
Describe the connections that you or your organization have already established that will contribute to the success of the project.
“Rural Integrated Development Organization” Is already working with them for the past 20 years , we have greater understanding and report with them , this will help us to work with them closely. We have joint management system with them, during annual planing they use to sit with us for discussion and planing. For social auditing they are become members. This strategy will hep us to succeed and bring best result to the projects.
How many participants do you think will be involved in your project?
We will train all the tribal village leaders like 63 hamlets X 3 person += 189
also the lead staffs from RIDO, Then the Panchayat Raj leaders. We will train the selected school children . The local leaders and the Panchayat members will continue the programmes for sustainability. As they are from the same tribal communities they can contribute a lot to their own communities. Therefore we will train about 370 personnel .
Besides the microgrant funding, what other resources and support are you seeking for your project to ensure its success?
We will re train them to perform their cultural programmes well, therefore we are in need of Microphone ,loud speaker, amplifier with battery and one digital video camera and one computer set.
Contact name
Dr.Lucas Babu
Organization
Rural Integrated Development Organization ( RIDO)