Irulas are erstwhile forest dwellers displaced from their habitations; NDSO supports them in Housing, Livelihood and Education.

"Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya" is an Initiative to uplift Irular Communities thru Education.

Challenges:

• We realized that the community can be brought to mainstream only through education.
• Parents being totally illiterate and ignorant, the biggest challenge was to inculcate the culture of attending schools.
• The next challenge with the school going children was the reluctance to catch up with other students.
• We planned Community Development centers to makeup the deficiency, under the scheme “Thamasoma Jyothir Gamaya”

These centers help in various ways:

• Cultivate the Discipline & Culture among the Students.
• Maintain good relationship with their parents
• Facilitate us to understand the people and work with them
• Ensure that the villagers develop bonding with us which helps in furthering the development activities
• Aid as the Community Grievance & Development Centre

More about the Project @ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1357AgGWcbBrULxFjwbm1uyMVR6uRM0Co/view?usp=sharing