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Development of Village Education

Opportunities for better education and health care for the underprivileged children

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Our Mission

DOVE’s mission is to assist underprivileged children by providing quality education, creating opportunities for education and job-oriented training in rural areas, prioritizing rural healthcare, especially for children, and conducting livelihood programs for women to enhance family income.

The Need

Current projects lack education opportunities for children of daily laborer parents, leading to high dropout rates and child labor. Increasing access to education is essential to improving their future, as higher education is currently difficult to access due to the absence of colleges in the area.

The Solution

DOVE provides learning opportunities for underprivileged children and youths in multiple districts. Strategies for school access include midday meals, feeding programs, and livelihood skills. DOVE’s programs provide individualized attention to students' needs, bringing more children into education.

Our Impact

DOVE has supported over 1000 children in completing arts, science, and technology courses. DOVE Children's Home supplies shelter, food, healthcare, and education to 120 children. Hundreds of dropouts have returned to school. DOVE Health Centre provides medical services to 40 villages.

Development Of Village Education (DOVE) was established in the year 2000 under the Societies Registration Act. Further it was with Home Ministry of India under FCRA making it eligible to receive funds from abroad to receive funds from abroad to implement development activities. A seven member board is monitoring the administration work as well as field activities. The area of operation is Tamil Nadu state in India.  The area of operation is Tamil Nadu state in India. The prime activities include Children’s Education, higher education for young people, Health Care, Women Empowerment, and Disaster Management. In the period spanning 20 years, development activities in a wide area of 12 districts in Tamil Nadu are underway targeting underprivileged children getting proper education and Health Care.

Current Projects
Children’s Education

Children from disadvantaged backgrounds who have no access to school education are organized and helped to get quality education in a concerted effort.

DOVE Children’s Home:

Further DOVE Children’s Home is running for the past 20 years with an intake of 120 children from poor backgrounds. They are given proper accommodation, food, health care, and quality education. They are from class 1 to class 12. The Children are from marginalized families who are in no way supported by their parents for their education. After they complete class 12 they are admitted in colleges for higher courses. Thus a child is fully grown up in DOVE Home till they complete college studies and land in a good job. A child's bright future is shaped at DOVE Home.

DOVE Health Centre:

DOVE Health Centre is catering to the health needs of people from 40 villages. People from this surrounding area have no access to medical help even for mild illnesses. Under the care of a Surgeon and support staff health care is provided for a population of 20000 people from the surrounding area. Periodical medical camps are conducted to enhance the health aspects of people living in remote areas. A full-fledged hospital with modern facilities is a long-felt need in this area that can give advanced treatment for a greater number of patients and can save many lives.

Women Empowerment:

In all the working villages women's groups are organized and development activities are undertaken with a major thrust on livelihood programs and savings. Currently, there are 400 Women Self Help Groups functioning vibrantly in the working villages.

DOVE financial support for College Studies:

For the comprehensive growth of the children, they need to pursue College Courses once they finish school education. With this in mind, DOVE is extending deserving young people from disadvantaged communities financial support to pursue higher education. More than 1000 young people have been helped complete college studies in two decades. Presently there are 40 students pursuing different courses who are in need of financial support. There are more students waiting for financial help to pursue their courses.

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Project Details The area and the People: The Project area in Tamil Nadu in India is generally characterized as backward lacking development activities, natural resources and work opportunities. People in rural parts are mostly agricultural coolies, landless laborers, daily wage earners and people who depend on cattle rearing. Lack of sufficient rain makes the area very much dry and irrigation is a thankless job. Vast stretches of land remain barren for want of agricultural activities. The families are big with the parents and grand parents live under one roof with all their children. There is always liveliness and love flowing with more number of adults and children living in one home depicting typical rural life in India. Education: The present generation is the first generation learners in this area as the past ones are not educated. Now there are more schools established and there is avid interest among children to go to schools and even to colleges after school years. The problem is there are no opportunities to go for higher education because of lack of colleges in their midst. As a result, they end up with completing school finals and still accompany their parents to work places to enhance family income. Health Care precariously very low: More number of children coupled with joint family system with old aged people cramped in small houses has its own health care problems. Children and aged ones are prone to falling ill more often. But lack of Health Care facilities even for minor illness make them feel the pain excruciatingly. There are primary Health Centres in the area but they are not adequately equipped. District Head Quarters Hospitals are miles away and they too are more crowded with patients flocking from all parts to get quality Health Care. Taking advantage of the pathetic situation a number of quakes are minting money in the name of treatment. The poor people fall victims to their trap as they have no other go except availing the kind of crude treatment the quacks are giving. DOVE Community Health Centre: DOVE Health Centre is in existence for a decade in the project area. Headed by a Surgeon and support staff. DOVE Health Centre is the only health care facility covering a wide area with a large number of rural population. Giving treatment, conducting periodical Medical Camps and taking preventive measures are the services being provided by DOVE Health Centre for the poor village people in the surrounding area. During pandemic the DOVE Health team did remarkably well in containing the spread of the disease and provided quality treatment. A large section of people especially from marginalized communities are availing the Health Care Services provided by DOVE Health Centre. From children to old aged people there is proper medical help with love and care from the medical staff. Full Fledged Hospital is very much needed: There is an emergency situation existing whereby the Medical facilities presently available are pathetically inadequate in DOVE Health Centre to give inpatient treatment and critical care. Usually we refer such patients to the District Government Hospitals which takes precious time and money from the poor people living in the Project area. A well equipped hospital can take inpatients and provide advanced treatment and save precious lives. There are more number of people who can get treated if DOVE Health Centre is upgraded into fully equipped Hospital. Presently we are able to give first aid treatment only to emergency patients who come with Heart attack symptoms and other critical conditions. Lack of fully equipped labs, X-Ray and scan facilities is a big handicap to give better treatment. Referring the critically ill patients to District Hospitals will take time which has its own risk factors. People could not afford money to go for advanced treatment in private hospitals which is a very costly affair. Budget: The total budget estimated for upgrading the DOVE Health Centre comes around 9 crore INR (90000000 INR) (1092187 USD) Budget description and breakup cost are available on request. The expenditure includes construction of patient rooms, emergency block, casualty, operation theatre, Doctor's consultation rooms, Blood investigation labs, X-Ray and Scan facilities. Benefits Expected: The benefits of setting up of a specialty DOVE Hospital have been manifold with advanced treatments for more number of patients than what is being availed at present. Specialized Doctors can be called for and they can give treatment for people who are critically ill. Instead of referring the critically ill patients to far away hospitals, we can provide advanced treatment at DOVE Hospital itself. Most importantly, Pregnant cases can be taken up who are otherwise give deliveries in their houses. We can give follow up treatments thereby ensuring safe deliveries and proper monitoring of babies and mothers
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Relief help for Wayanad Landslides survivors in Kerala

Wayanad area in Kerala was hit by massive landslides in the early hours of July 30,2024 that caused hundreds of deaths and still people are trapped under debris. This is the most devastating disasters in the history of Kerala. More than 300 people died and more number of people missing. Rescue work is under way and search is on for survivors. The Kerala government and many NGOs are on the affected sites undertaking relief and rescue operations. The national disaster team and the army are taking massive efforts to save the trapped people under trying conditions. The south west monsoon is still active and heavy rain has hampered the rescue mission. People who are alive in the affected areas have lost their homes and their belongings all of a sudden. They are made to stay in temporary relief camps. There are thousands of people rendered homeless overnight and their survival is a miracle. There are a number of children who have lost their parents to the nature's fury. Houses, schools and shops were buried under mud slush and boulders caused by the landslides and floods. Death happened in their sleep and within a flash life finished and many lives lost to the fury. Now the Relief efforts are picking up momentum and heling hand is extended from all quarters. Our organization DOVE is one of the NGOs who have sent relief materials at the earliest. We are still in need of Relief essentials to hand over to the affected victims in the land slides. Relief things including emergency food ,shelter, clothing , bedding, medicines ,hygienic items and other items as needed. The kind donors may send their donation to Development of Village Education(DOVE) an Ngo in the southern part of India who have access and logistics support to help the survivors in the disaster of this magnitude in Kerala. We thank your generosity to lend a helping hand at times of this massive tragedy.
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