You can make a real difference
- £10 a month would enable a woman to set up a small business, allowing her to afford healthcare and education for her children
- £25 would provide home care kits for three sufferers of HIV/Aids
- £50 would pay for five group leaders to be trained on human rights, leadership skills, business management and HIV/Aids
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Some successes
- Building a 20,000-strong women's movement that combats poverty and violence
- Creating a high-profile human rights campaign by the Arunthathiyar, the Dalits of the Dalits
- Forging an HIV+ people's association that fights for better HIV facilities and against discrimination
- Backing panchayat groups that work to make village councils serve the most needy
Some ambitions
- To make the woman's movement stronger and fully independent
- To build a state-wide Arunthathiyar campaign
- To strengthen and widen positive people's organisations
- To campaign across Tamil Nadu for panchayat reform
Why I support VST
Sir Nicholas Fenn, former UK High Commissioner to India