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CommunityThis Temple project will uplift poverty-stricken women and children from Killankulam Village, a forgotten village in Madurai Dist, South India. The Temple project will bring a new hope of life to the village now while the project is being established, but for years to come.
The children at this village like many others have five different grades of students studying in the same classroom, often with only one or two teachers.
About 30 women in the village of Killankulam have found a glimmer of independence through the first phase of our building project. This offers income and a break from the cycle of gender discrimination. The project until now has been funded by the income that our Master derives from his work, and as he is busy with the project, the funds are drying up, as such, we need donations.
"In India, women suffer the most. They rely first on their parents or their brothers and then their husbands," said Sister Isabel, a Spaniard who launched the Creative Handicraft project in 1984.
"When a couple only have girls as children, it's seen as a tragedy: When the husband leaves they become homeless and no one to turn too. I wanted to build something for those women." Sri Param Eswaran
"To offer a salary to women so that they don't hesitate to send their children to school, who otherwise end up working as agriculture labors from a very young age."
The dowry system is a key obstacle that permeates Indian society.
In India, it's the woman’s family who has to pay dowry, but they don't always have the means. This places them is poverty line.
In this village most of the husband's jobs are unstable as such it is important that women here and many other such villages as Killankulam, have been forgotten by society and the government, thus they will continue to be forgotten generation after generation as it has been with previous generations. For this reason IFC Temple of Divine Love has chosen to put all it income to help this society. We sincerely hope that all those who read the page will help us by sending donations
We would like to see that all the women in this village earn at least 1,300 rupees, or about US$29, a significant sum for a woman in a Village. In addition, we like to spend at least US$11 monthly per student, towards their education, food, clothing and health.
For the children of the village we will like to build four classrooms @ rupees 200,000.00 US$4.430.00 for each classroom.
Activities room for women
Shelter for women, 2394.19 sft at the cost of rupees 921,750.00 or US$ 20,400.0 and will house 28 women
Decent Employment for Women in Killankulam Project – South India
The majority of women in both rural of India are employed in the informal sector, which is characterized by low productivity, minimal incomes, and a lack of economic and social security. In rural areas, 87 per cent of women are employed in agriculture as laborers, cultivators, building and construction. A worrisome trend is the increasing informality of women’s employment in all sectors and most regions. Labor laws are difficult to impose in the informal sector, particularly when the workers lack the ability to effectively organize.
The objective of our program is to improve the employability of women by educating them, and creating opportunities of self-employment
As a first step towards achieving this objective, the program will focus on income earning opportunities for women. As Killankulam women have worked as cultivators, we will be funding 8 acres of land for agriculture, out of the 10 acres owned by our Master Sri Param Eswaran.
We will also provide women’s access to training for decent employment in the informal sector:
• The first step is to improve the way young women in the village see themselves. An empowerment and cultural education program, so that these women can assimilate well with their women in the urban areas.
• To make available information on workers’ rights, occupational safety and health, and life skills for women
• Help delivery of training to at least 200 women of the Village through the Regional Vocational Training Institutes and Industrial Training Institutes.
The program intents to promote empowerment and access to training and employment of women in Killankulam and near by villages. Existing socio-cultural constraints may have a strong impact on the process of equal employment opportunities offered by the project. The current low educational and skill levels of many women from the villagers around Killankulam has an endemic poverty which is increasingly female, show the complexity of the problem faced by the Villagers to alleviate poverty and remove inequality based on caste, class and gender.
Empowered the villagers and mainly the next generation will help to change the way they think thus improving the opportunity to sustainable employment and that their families and children truly benefit.
The first step, which will be taken as of April 21, 2004, will be:
1. Meeting the nutritional needs of the family, through organic vegetable diet.
2. Keeping the environment (including the soil) clean and healthy.
3. Positive empowerment of the women of the villages, through income
generating agricultural product selling activities.
4. Use compost production and vegetable selling activities as a means to educate their teenagers through "hands-on" work-experience.
About soil health and thereby nutritious vegetable, organic and permaculture farming etc. Demonstrate the efficiency and advantage of organic and permaculture farming and how to avoid chemicals and pesticides in agriculture.
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IFC Temple of Divine Love was first formed in Australia where our Master Sri Param Eswaran since 1976 was involved in the Alternative health activities across the major cities. In 2003, he decided to take his work to India, where he acquired 10 acres of land, at Killankulam Village, Periyur Taluk, Madurai Dist, South India. Now we have IFC Temple of Divine Love in India and the Netherlands, and we hope to spread our work around the globe.
His prime purpose in choosing the village is to prove a better living for the villagers. Within one month of his acquirement of the land, the started the building a hall for meditation and local cultural activities. As of 1st August 2004 we will have the following ready.
1. Office and residence for our Master when he is in India
2. A cottage for visitors who will be helping with the project
3. Water way for the villages for agricultural purpose. This may take longer to complete, as we are shot of funds
Completed:
1. Meditation Hall
2. Office
3. Quarters for our Master
3. Road works, connecting one village to another
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1. Year of establishment of in India Reg;279/2003 :- 2003
2. Location:- Acquired a 10 acre property at 118/1b Killankulam Village, Periyur Taluk, Madurai Dist, South India ;- October 2003
3. Number of people working at the site:- 50
4. Starting of farming activities:- April 21st 2004. We have started growing vegetables for local consumption
5. Crop: Grow organic and permaculture grown Rice, Vegetable and eatable flowers
6. Expected production:-
a. 3 acres of rice
b. 3 acres of vegetable
c. 1 acres of eatable flowers
7. Average work hours per lady will be 4 hours
By December 2005 women of the village will become capable of organizing themselves around a profitable production process for the attainment of self-reliance, dignity and quality growth.
We will find ways to support marketing of the products of village women's groups and help them grow with right work ethics.
OBJECTIVES
1. To establish a sustainable marketing structure, and to ensure remunerative prices for the products of village production units.
2. Help them organize themselves to face the open market challenges.
4. To assist the village women to build their capacity, capability and confidence in applying themselves
5. To create and promote a market for organic and permaculture products and to encourage village women to take up organic and permaculture farming.
6. To promote a work ethic that is based on human dignity, love, trust and responsibility towards society and the environment.
ACTION PLAN FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS
1. Establish IFC women’s India Trust to support in the marketing of organic, permaculture and other items produced by the Killankulam Village and its adjoining districts.
2. To create the appropriate physical infrastructure for the IFC women’s India Trust for the development of management packages, system quality control of products, final packaging, storing and managing production activity, quality control and marketing of the products.
3. To establish links with experts in organic and permaculture farming and financial institutions for the smooth functioning of the IFC women’s India Trust.
4. To standardize the system of promoting and supporting IFC Women’s India Trust.
