Native Medicare Charitable Trust (NMCT)

Context

Native Medicare Charitable Trust, known as NMCT was registered under charitable trust act in 1988. It began its activities with research on Alternate Medicines, Bio diversity conservation, Environmental Protection, Waste management, Forestry Seeds collection organization of Adivasis in Tribal villages. NMCT extended its activities by forming Self Help Groups for tribals and dalits, providing them capacity building and income generation activities.

  • Tribal Development
Livelihood support for 750 families in 18 villages of Tholampalayam & Velliankadu Panchayats, Karamadai Block, Coimbatore district. 300 families are supported for orchard plantations, border plants and another 450 families supported for non wadi activities such as sheep rearing, milch animals, bullock & carts, petty shops, Tailoring, vermin compost units
  • STI, HIV/AIDS Prevention
The Intervention of prevention of HIV/AIDS among Migrants and Industrial workers in the entire districts of Coimbatore & Tirupur.
  • HIV/AIDS Care & Support
800 families infected by HIV/AIDS in Pollachi North & South Blocks in Coimbatore districts provided support for Treatment Services, Emergency supports, Nutrition package, Education support
  • Care Home for vulnerable children
27 children belonging to the HIV/AIDS affected families provided free shelter Education upto College level, nutrition food & Medical services.
  • Women Empowerment
Over 1000 Women are organized into small Self Help Groups now emerged as a Community based organization namely Vimuktha Womens Federation
Website:
www.nmctngo.org
Area of Work:
Tamilnadu, India
Contact Person:
A.S. Sankaranarayanan

Approaches to implementing Community monitoring/accountability

The approach of Native Medicare Charitable Trust is community based and after the end of the particular project the activities are transferred to community based organizations which are trained in taking up the ownership and responsibility before the closure of the project, in continuing the objectives of the project.

Native Medicare Charitable Trust will continue as a resource organisation in providing training, capacity building, finance management in taking up the activities. It will also provide support in advocacy and linkages to the CBOs..

Results 


No.

Aims/ objectives of the organization

 

Activity carried out during the latest financial year to meet those objectives

Achieved (numbers only)

 

Lessons  Learnt

1.

Care and Support for HIV/AIDS infected and affected

 

To provide treatment and emergency services

110

The beneficiarias are not regular to ART treatments and consuming Medicines 

 

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To provide nutrition food packages to the HIV infected and affected   every month

486

They are not regular for receiving nurtrition food packages

 

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To provide financial assistance for IGP activity

101

Persons supported for IGP are not regular in repayment

2.

Improve the livelihood sustainability of hill tribes

To provide saplings of orchard plants, border plants, supply of manures pesticides for cultivation of orchard 

200

More no of tribes soldout their small land holding.

 

Water sources should be ensured.

 

Beneficiarias prefer non wadi activities compare to wadi activities.  

 

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To support landless Tribals by Animal Husbandry 

181

 

 

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To support for migro enterprises for landless Tribals

30

 

 

 

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To support Tribal woman with Kitchen gardens

30

 

 

 

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To provide support for health and sanitation

6

 

3.

 

To create awareness among the migrants public, industrial workers and sex workers on prevention of HIV/AIDS

To conduct awareness to migrant industrial workers and referring to ICTC

1310

Corporates are not cooperating for interventions.

 

Migrant/industrial workers are not comming out for testing fearing stigma/discrimination

 

 

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To conduct STI camp at industries

105

 

4.

 

Enterepreneurship empowerment to rural women and girls

To conduct silai schools for training of rural women and girls in tailoring and allied activities

30

Women and girls are not regular for their training nor establishing their own enterprises after the training