Daily bread in Tamil Nadu

Aim

n Tamil Nadu, people who most experience hardship and social exclusion are the Pariahs or Dalits (nicknamed the untouchables/oppressed). They are considered the outcast, the last caste in the Hindu social and religious system.
The project aims at the distribution of nutritious food once a day to 150 Dalits people around the poorest villages in Ariyalur district.

Beneficiaries

Beneficiaries of these project are the Dailts in Tamil Nadu, the poorest of the poor: orphan and extremely poor children, abandoned women and abandoned elderly people of Poovanipattu, Murugankottai, Vaari Theru, Minnurankaduvetty, Augnespuram, Kuppam, Kumilankuzhi, Keelaneduvai, Varadharajanpettai and Thennur villages.

Children

The poor and orphan children of these villages are talented and they would like to study, but they lack the physical and mental energy due to deficiency of nutritious food, since their families are extremely poor.

Women

In this area, many young women have been abandoned by their husbands and many young girls who got pregnant by their bosses – who usually give them false hope of promotion and of a possible marriage – have been fired and left alone. These women cannot go to work as they are advanced in pregnancy and find it very hard to take care of their health and that of the child in the womb: they do not even eat a good meal a day.

Elderly

Many old Dalits people are often abandoned by their children and since they do not have any pension, having worked all their lives in the agricultural fields of the landlords, they struggle to lead a dignified life and often live at the mercy of their relatives. Due to the lack of food they often get sick and die earlier than they should as they do not have the means to cure their sickness.