Origin and brief history of PEAS TRUST
PEAS TRUST’s approach to People’s Health, Education and Awareness embraces the life cycle of gender equity within the wide cultural, economical and political environment of disadvantaged communities.
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WHO WE ARE
People's Educational Awareness Service Trust
People'S Educational Awareness Service Trust is a non-profit organisation, established in 1997 that works primarily in the domain of Health, Disaster Management, Employment, Water, Agriculture, Gender, Child & Youth Development, Legal, Food & Nutrition, Energy & Environment and Livelihoods. Its primary office is in Lalgudi, Tamil Nadu.
We take care has recently been highlighted by international agencies and national and state government as an important approach of health programmes which aims to address women’s health in context to reproductive, maternal, newborn, child health, education and adolescent health. This approach demands to provide care to a woman throughout her life-cycle. It starts before birth and progresses cumulatively through childhood and adolescence to adulthood and old age. This life-cycle approach extends beyond women’s reproductive role to encompass women’s health at every stage and in every aspect of their lives. Through this approach, other health issues affecting women that were previously overlooked, or thought not to exist, have become more apparent.
Legal status of PEAS Trust:
- Registered as trust Indian trust act 1882, vide Regd No.20/1997 and dated 03.03.1997.
- Registered under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act 2010, vide FCRA Registration No.076040354.
- Registered U/s. 12A of Income Tax Act 1961, vide unique registration number: AAATP7117KW20064.
- Registered U/s.80G of Income Tax Act 1961, vide unique registration number- AACTC2932RF20215.
- Registered with Niti Ayog on NGO Darpan portal, vide unique ID NO. TN/2017/0170531.
- Permanent Account No. (PAN) AAATP7117K
- Registered with Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Vide Reg. CSR00028908.
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n such a critical situations, People’s Education Awareness Service Trust (PEAS) came to response to the suffering of target farmers and daily wage earning agricultural labourers in 1997.
Henceforth, the determinants and responses to women’s health profile must consider all factors and not only biological ones- such as the economic, social and cultural factors that affect their status, as well as gender relations between women and men. These factors are very crucial to address as it significantly affects women’s physical, mental and emotional health.
The river Cauvery water sharing disputes which exists for the more than 5 decades between Tamilnadu and Karnataka states left the Cauvery delta region follow. This forced the wetlands farmers to transform into alternative crop system and quit the farmers from raising the cash crops like paddy, Banana, Sugarcane and coconut. Due to lessor flowing of water in the canals of cauvery irrigation system, frequent failure of monsoon rain and erratic rainfalls. Several thousand of small and marginal farmers left their traditional livelihood seeking for alternative sources of livelihood in civil construction sector, blue metal quarrying, sand quarrying, bricks kilns, local and long distance trucking industry and small and medium industries in Lalgudi taluk of Trichy district.
In such a critical situations, People’s Education Awareness Service Trust (PEAS) came to response to the suffering of target farmers and daily wage earning agricultural labourers in 1997.
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PEAS TRUST
MISSION
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Past performance of PEAS Trust
- PEAS promoted 165 women SHGs with a total membership of 2476.
- Revolving fund of Rs.10,000 each to 110 women SHGs for internal lending.
- Revolving loans were disbursed to 60 SHG women to the total of 4,78,150/-
- Awareness Generation Programme (AGP) were conducted to 175 women through 110 session covering 25 women in each 10 days event.
- 45 day EDP training for 25women on food processing industries
- World AIDS Day Campaign-2006 among the Hr.Sec. School Students, PRI members and women SHGs through multi events.
- Science and technology awareness on health and nutrition and preparation of organic manure were conducted for 200 SHG women.
- Awareness on Naturopathy, Yoga and meditation for 300 SHG women and girls
- Health check-up camps were conducted with the support of TNVHA in 6 villages of Lalgudi block collaborating with Fullerton India.
Achievements of PEAS Trust:
- About 2500 SHG women who were daily wage earning relieved from debt burden from greedy private money lenders through revolving fund (RF) for internal lending.
- US based RSWR funding organisation supported with revolving loan to more than 500 poor women to undertake IGP activities that charcoal making, palm leaf knitting, fruit vending, tailoring, vegetable vending, wed grinding etc.,
- Nederland based st.Cestrium Muttarra supported with revolving loan to more than 150 poor women to undertake IGP activities that fruit vending, tailoring, vegetable vending, wet grinding, palm leaf knitting, etc.,
- Ministry of food processing industries, Govt. of India supported for 25 poor women through 45 days EDP on food processing. All the trained women involved in pickle making, banana and tomato jam making, banana stem sweet candy making and marketing in Lalgudi and surrounding areas.
- APAC Project (USAID funded project) Chennai enabled to observe the World AIDS Day campaign -2006 among 300 school students, 500 SHGs women and 60 PRI members through multi events.
- TAHDCO (Tamilnadu Adidravidar and Housing Development Corporation Ltd.,) disbursed subsidy loan to 10 women SHG towards promotion of individual diary.
- Tamilnadu Social Welfare Board and Central Social Welfare Board sanctioned mini grant to conduct AGP for 175 rural women through 7 batches on various socio-economic, education, health, HIV/AIDS, micro enterprises, organic farming, environment etc.,
- About 7000 different categories of manual workers were enrolled as member in Tamilnadu manual workers welfare board and benefited from various welfare schemes in Lalgudi, Pullambadi and Manachanallur blocks of Trichy district.
- Out of the total members of Tamilnadu manual workers welfare board, nominees of 55 natural death received compensation of Rs.55,000 each and one nominee of accident death received Rs.5,00,000/- as accident compensation.
- 700 students received scholarship of Rs.1000 to 8000/- per year, 20 women received 20,000 as marriage aid for the past 16 years.
- More than 300 elderly persons received free specks with eye check-up.
- With the grant support of Ontario Teacher’s Federation (OTF) Canada, 168 girls at LNP girls Hr.Sec. School, Lalgudi were distributed educational materials, kits which consisted of geometry box, English dictionary, English grammer book, pen, pencil and eraser.
Ongoing Project of PEAS Trust:
For the past 3 years, the major project entitled, “organic farming of horticulture crops among the marginal farmers” is being implemented in Lalgudi, Pullambadi and Manachanallur blocks of Trichy district. Under this project, the horticulture crops that brinjal, lady’s finger, chillie and pitter guard are cultivated by the farmers.
Preparation of organic external inputs by the target farmers themselves.
The following organic external inputs are being prepared:
- Vermi compost
- Panchakavya
- Amirtha Karaisal
- Waste fish based organic pesticides
Potential target groups being covered and benefited:
Year – I – 30+30
Year – II – 60+60
Year – III – 120+120
Marketing of the product:
The farmers are marketing their organic produce in local weekly market, local villages and district market thereby make daily earnings.
