Meiporul Foundation

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2024-25

Change Makers

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We know that teaching to fish is better than catching fish. Therefore, in the tribal villages where we work, the tribal leaders take care of the village welfare. They get little help, guidance and a lot of encouragement from us. Pandi, Pandi is a vibrant tribal youth of his age. He knows the needs of his villagers and helps them. He is doing many important activities like bringing government schemes to the village, getting benefits to the villagers and getting documents. Aruna is an Adivasi girl who completed her nursing studies. When we met him in his village a few months ago, he said that he had completed his nursing course. Later, when asked why he did not go to work, he said that he could not take care of his children. If so, we asked if it would be possible to provide the necessary medical assistance to this village. Aruna immediately agreed with great enthusiasm, and since that day he has been attending to all the medical needs in his village like taking care of everyone in need of medical care and taking them to the hospital. Nagarani is a tribal girl who has only completed her twelfth standard. Due to his own passion and attachment to his village, he provides educational services to all the children in his village in the evenings. He knows very carefully what are the educational needs of the children in his village and understands the essential educational services to fulfill them. Thus we only teach the tribes how to fulfill their own needs.

Support to recover!

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Accidents are unpredictable in anyone’s life. Such accidents shall topple a family’s economical situation for any margenalized people. In the wild, encounters with the wild animals do happen unpredicted. You are not always warned by a wild animal and your humanity or other values doesn’t count with a wild animal during a conflict. That’s nature! Even people who co-exist with the wild for thousands of years can be affected by a wild animal. Sadayandi (50) a had working tribal farmer was hit by a wild gaur on his coffee farm on 17th May 2024. He needs some amount to travel to a far away government hospital for taking up required medical assistance. But, he cannot afford for the travel expense to reach the government hospital. Few days later this news reached us and we beard all his expenses for travel and medical requirements.   Sadayandi has his normal days back now. He can perform all his activities as earlier without any difficulties. Some help on time, brings happiness and relief to life! Muthupandi () is the village leader of the paliyar tribe village, Kaduguthadi. On the day of august 18, 2024 he slipped and fell into a river during his usual walk. He was noticed suffering to move his legs after nearly 2 hours by his friends. He was then rushed to a hospital by his friends and assisted by our volunteer Mrs.Aruna. We supported him with financial assistance to take care of his medical expenses. After preliminary tests, he was found to have some minor injuries in his spinal and now under our medical care and observation.

Promoting Tribal Economy

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Vinod is a 30 year old respectable young tribal man. He belongs to a tribal community called Paliyar. Paliyar’s live in the Pazhani hills range of western ghats for thousands of years and entirely depend on the forest for their food, medicine and livelihood. They are basically hunters and gatherers who evolved even before the humanity has started practicing agriculture.    Even today, the Paliyars get into deep jungles to harvest honey, tubers and other wild herbs for their living. They bring quality honey from the jungle and sell it to the market for livelihood. On one such day while climbing a tree to collect mountain honey in the forest, Vinod slipped and fell down and injured his spinal cord and has been paralyzed for about nine years.   Behind the forest products that are bought by agents at very low cost and sold in the hands of the people at a huge profit lies the story of many young people like Vinod. During a conversation with Vinod and his friends, we had a conversation about value-added marketing of forest products direct to the consumers at good prices. We do not wish to be a middleman on their market. The tribes are the owners of the forest produce. It was discussed in the meeting that the women, physically challenged and the elders of the village who have less chances of employment shall start this initiative along with Vinod in value addition of their produce and directly put quality products in the hands of the people at fair prices.   We raised a small amount of fund for this initiative and kick started this process. Yes! Vinod is now an entrepreneur. He receives honey collected by his friends, neatly packs and sends it through courier to people. The people are developing a collective rural tribal economy with mutual participation. The consumers are happy about receiving a quality product at fair prices and also supporting for the development of tribal economy.   This year (2024-25) we managed to supply about more than 50 litres of wild honey direct to the consumers. This initiative has brought lots of hope to the community, some livelihood for Vinod and satisfaction for the society.

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