Re: [India_Vision_2020] Suyam enabled 15 families to stop begging and to take up auto rickshaw driving ~ India Vision 2020

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Re: [India_Vision_2020] Suyam enabled 15 families to stop begging and to take up auto rickshaw driving

India Vision 202010:19 AM No comments

i heartly appreciate your hard work towards improving our country and bringging all the people at the sal\me level........

i will also try to help some one nearby.............

On 8/24/10, Prime Point Srinivasan <prpoint@gmail.com> wrote:

hi all

suyam, one of the partner groups of Action 2020 is working for the benefit of street children. On the recent Independence day, they helped 15 families who were involved in street begging, to acquire autorickshaws through THADCO. Please read the note sent to me personally by Mr Muthuraman, co-founder of Suyam. India Vision Group and Action 2020 team proudly congratulates the Suyam team and the beneficiaries for taking up a new and dignfied life.

We look forward to more such success stories from the members of India Vision group.

Srinivasan

Moderator

Dear Sir

With all your blessings and prayers, Suyam beneficiaries are leading a peaceful life.

Would like to share with you about our long time dream came true – Community

development activities.

Begging to Best Practices

Suyam (www.suyam.org) identified 50 families in the year 1999 who involved in begging

for the past 4 decades. Taken a documentary movie NADAIPADHAI POOKKAL and

taken a oath that Suyam will work hard to rehabilitate them so that pavement stones can

nourish like pavement flowers. After 4 years of awareness, they realized the important of

education and motivated us to start a school. Siragu Montessori School (www.siragu.org)

started in 2003 with 34 children 12km near Avadi and now school providing free

education 400 more children.

Community Development Activity under SEP (Suyam Empowerment Program)

On our motivation, families were given their begging but looking out for a alternative

earning sources or livelihood sources for them. Further, counseled them and kindled

their skills and many youngsters learnt auto driving and for the past 5 years tried to

identify donors to get their support and pay down payment to financier to get them a auto

loan. But our efforts gone in vain.

We didn't given up our spirit, through a well wisher we got to know about TAHDCO –

Tamiladu Adi Dravida Housing Development Corporation. Met the MD who is an IAS

officer, when we expressed our interest in support the families rescued from begging, he

told us to submit relevant papers of people who wish to opt for auto loan and within two

weeks he will grant the loan.

Worked with full spirit, entire TAHDCO department well co-operated, within 3 weeks, with

the blessings of Universe, 15 families got sanctioned subsidized loan. TAHDCO granted

a loan amount of Rs.23.94 lakhs with low interest rate out of which 3.75 lakhs is subsidy

grant (each beneficiary get 25000 subsidy).

On 15th August, at Siragu Campus, distributed 3 wheeler autorickshaws to 12 families

and TATA magic 4 wheelers to 3 families.

Suyam stand as a guarantor and responsible for repayment of loan to TAHDCO by

collecting the monthly contribution from the beneficiaries.

We are very happy to share with you that our long time dream come true and 15 families

are proud owners of their vehicles, a new avenue to earn and now no need to stretch

their hands to beg but with their hard work and promptly repay the loan, more other

families also will get support in future.

We feel it is our duty to let u know what's happening in Suyam becos every one of you

guiding us and supporting us in any forms.