Annai Theresa Makkal Sevai Maiyam

Annai Theresa Makkal Sevai Maiyam -Thanjavur -is a community-based organization run and led by female sex workers. The CBO is presently working with Read more1500 female sex workers across 12 blocks of Vellore, Tamil Nadu. The vision of the CBO is, “Improving the social status of the vulnerable and integrating with the society”. The Mission says, Over the past seven years, the CBO has provided many services to sex workers and their children such as counselling, treatment, and commodity supplement. And also through the community mobilization project, the organization promotes savings habits, ensures insurance and pension and facilitates the members to get a loan from formal sources. It also supports the members to address and resolve violence and ensure accessing various government schemes and entitlements. Presently the CBO focuses on Resource Mobilisation to sustain the support to the members. The organization established a good rapport with the local government, social welfare office, ICTC and RMC. The CBO is covering 160 positive sex workers, 52 affected and 15 infected children in the age group of 0-18.