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Mission Statement
Vision “Building a gender just, non-discriminatory, democratic, and inclusive society for women and children, and disadvantaged people of the society and ensure equal access to resources and sustainable livelihood for them.” Mission • Capacitating marginalised community in improving their knowledge, skills and efficiency to claim their participation in the inclusive society. • Collaboration with other organizations, government agencies, and stakeholders towards improving the lives of the marginalised as equal citizens. • Advocate for broader systemic changes in improving practices, resource flows and relationship towards social justice and Social Inclusion.
About This Cause
Evolution of COROAT : COROAT is a not for profit organisation registered under Indian Trust Act working for the inclusion of marginalised sections of society for enforcing their dignified life, equal access to resources and sustainable livelihood. Ms. M Padmavathi, the founder of COROAT is a daughter of traditional artisan who has experienced poverty, indebtedness of the family to private money lenders, low literacy of family members, child marriage and child labour. She found education as the only solution to improve the socio, economic status of the family and pushed herself to become the first generation graduate. She completed her post-graduation through merit scholarship and turned out to be an outstanding student from the college. She wanted to return her gratitude to the society and initiated COROAT in 2009. She initiated her intervention from promoting the traditional artisan community, enable them to get access to institutional credit Initially COROAT started working for the traditional artisans and unorganised workers from Tiruchirapalli district, children of coolie labourers and slowly extended the interventions to transperson from Tamil Nadu. Vision • “Building a gender just, non-discriminatory, democratic, and inclusive society for women and children, and disadvantaged people of the society and ensure equal access to resources and sustainable livelihood for them.” Mission • Capacitating marginalised community in improving their knowledge, skills and efficiency to claim their participation in the inclusive society. • Collaboration with other organizations, government agencies, and stakeholders towards improving the lives of the marginalised as equal citizens. • Advocate for broader systemic changes in improving practices, resource flows and relationship towards social justice and Social Inclusion. Values of COROAT Social Inclusion • COROAT considers marginalised sections of the society who are excluded in education, workforce, health services, financial support and social security from government/social institution due to race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, religion, socio-economic status and traditional skills set, need to be included in the mainstream society. Equity • COROAT contribute to improve equity in accessing basic needs, resources and information for dignified living with social justice of marginalised communities in the mainstream society. Empowerment • COROAT aims to empower the marginalised and under-represented communities to advocate for their rights through imparting knowledge, skills and resources and equal participation. Inclusive Intervention framework of COROAT Empowerment of Traditional artisans Problems faced by the community : COROAT worked with traditional artisans involved in hand made gold ornament making. The preference of the people to give order to the goldsmith has vanished due to emergence of more and more jewelleries. Gold Control Act initiated by Indian government during 70s have reduced the opportunity for goldsmith to continue to get orders from direct customers. This has led to borrowing of money from private money lenders for their livelihood. The traditional artisans are less educated, not aware of any other skills other than ornament making. They used conventional methods of production and not aware of latest technologies and use of machines. Intervention of COROAT : To reduce the burden of goldsmith in private loans, COROAT has promoted Self Help Groups among women and men from traditional artisan community and motivated to pool their money as savings in the SHG and on-lend money among themselves. COROAT also linked them with commercial banks and promoted access to institutional credit. Vision building workshops were conducted and one trade union was also formed among traditional artisans. Women from traditional artisan community were provided skill development training on hand made embroidery, aari work and jardosi making to improve the income of the family. Mainstreaming of marginalised children: Problems faced by children : Considering the need for protecting the children from traditional artisan community to become first generation graduates and reduce drop out, COROAT has initiated education intervention for children of traditional artisans and coolie labourers from Tiruchirapalli City corporation especially around 23 slums. The family members of the children intervened are less educated and lack motivation to educate the children. Income of children was also required for the family to feed themselves. Child work in garage, workshops, migrated to other states for want of money. Ms. Padmavathi, Managing Trustee was selected as a member of Juvenile Justice Board, for Tiruchirapalli district, and she had an opportunity to understand the plight of drop out children turning to become children in conflict with law. She wants to ensure that all children are in school till the age of 18 to stop them becoming Child labour, child marriage and drop of children from school. There is poor participation of children in the family and society are the major problems faced by the marginalised children. Interventions of COROAT : COROAT has started working for the right to development, protection and participation of the children. COROAT has initiated evening study centres to ensure the children to complete their home work, learn life skills, participate in extra-curricular activities. Special attention was also given to improve the learning skills of children in Science, English and Mathematic. In this process of implementation COROAT understood the learning gaps among children. Hence, COROAT collaborated with Pratham Education foundation, get the staff members trained on assessment of learning levels of children and conducted remedial education programme. COROAT has reached out to 42 government schools and approximately 4000 children in improving their learning levels in Tamil, English and Mathematics. To improve the participation and protection of children, COROAT has formed the children into Children Parliament and Children Panchayat and provided training to children on UNCRC. To strengthen the participation of children, COROAT has supported Village Level Child Protection Committees (VLCPC) in 3 panchayats as a pilot basis. Child safety audit was conducted in a participatory manner in the three panchayats and identified the challenges faced the children towards right to life, development, protection and participation. Addressing the challenges was considered as the key agenda for the VLCPC. These interventions were conducted with the support of The Hans Foundation from 2015 – 2020. After COVID, COROAT has lost funding as the focus of the donor has changed from education to health. Hence, COROAT has started working as a resource agency to NGOs working for children and trained the staff members on remedial education programme, curriculum for children with learning difficulties. Sustainable livelihood of Transperson : Problems faced by transperson : Transperson are another category of excluded community face lot of discrimination, social exclusion, violence from the parents, non-acceptance of their gender expression. Majority of the transperson are school drop outs. Run away from the parental family, experienced bullying, harassment by the peers and teachers in school and place of employment. Most of the transperson do not have their basic documents for their identity as a citizen, as transperson and hence they could not go for any decent livelihood opportunities. There are several myths prevails around transperson by the community members and bureaucrats which add fuel to the exclusion of transperson. They do not have legal protection to ensure equity and ensure citizenship rights to transperson. Intervention of COROAT : COROAT has initiated "She in He" Livelihood promotion of transperson” project with the support of LemonAid ChariTea Foundation, Germany from June 2022. The interventions of COROAT through the project is as follows : • Capacity building of transperson on psychologicla well being and entrepreneurship promotion. 257 transperson from 8 districts of Tamil Nadu got trained and became member of “She in He” forum transperson in Tamil Nadu. • Skill development of transperson has been provided to transperson in tailoring, animal husbandry and driving, to enable them to initiate their own livelihood options. • Convergence with government and social institution on subsidised assistance for entrepreneurship promotion. So far, COROAT has successfully linked 28 transperson under Prime Minister Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) through District Industries Centre under MSME. Few like minded NGOS are also supporting the beneficiaires of COROAT and 38 transperson has successfully identified their own livelihood in a sustainable and dignified manners. • Advocate for their rights as equal citizens to avail basic needs and social security. COROAT has enabled transperson to get land patta for housing and looking for possible sources of funding for construction of houses. CROSS CUTTING CONCERNS • Gender equity including third gender would be considered as key focus in all the interventions of COROAT. There is no discrimination based on sex. • Environmental protection is given at most care in all interventions. None of the activities or programmes would lead to environmental degradation and ignore the key concerns on protection of ecosystems.