Native Medicare Charitable Trust

The Trust works to generate livelihoods and guide tribal populations and villages in better agricultural practices to increase self-sufficiency and income. It promotes ‘WADI’ methods that conserve water and undertake activities to protect this scarce resource. It also encourages the tribal communities to take up animal husbandry as a profession and supports them in rearing sheep, cows and poultry.

The Trust actively engages with corporates and industries to educate their employees about sexual harassment and its consequences. It trains the employees for effective implementation of anti-harassment policies at workplaces and helps in developing modules to tackle sexual harassment.

It promotes and encourages the formation of community-based organisations(CBO) that work at the grassroots levels of society. It has helped form three CBOs namely Santhippom Positive Welfare Society, Tirupur Santhippom Welfare Society, ADI Federation and Vimuktha Federation providing sustainable support to people in education, financial aid, access to Government schemes and agricultural support.

It works to spread education amongst underprivileged children under the right to education provision. The effort had started with the rescue of children working in brick kilns and admitted to mainstream schools also at the same time carrying out WASH projects to aid in sanitation efforts and promote well-being among children.

NMCT implements Targeted Intervention Project in partnership with Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society , Chennai in Tirupur and Coimbatore Districts from 2011 and 2014 respectively. The project aims at Prevention of HIV transmission , Reduction of STD Transmission, Reduced Stigma attached with diseases. This project reaches the door steps of hundreds of Industries, to create awareness on prevention of STI/AIDA among the Migrant Workers. The major activities include one to one interaction, and one to one group education on Sexually Transmitted Infections. These workers are vulnerable to unsafe sex and HIV infection. The project also organizes STI and HIV/AIDS camps at migrant workplaces to i9dentify High Risk Groups . The project promotes Peer Leaders to support the service activities and Condom distribution.

Establishment of Horticulture plants in 250 acres in Tribal Area for 250 Tribal Families and provision of Livestock facilities to 50 Tribal Families those who do not have land to cultivate to develop the livelihood opportunity.

With a focus on tackling HIV, the Trust with encouragement from the National AIDS Control Programme works to address high-risk groups like migrant workers by going to their doorstep and conducting awareness sessions. To bring healthcare to remote locations and tribes. The Trust has provided an ambulance that covers more than 20 tribal locations in the Coimbatore district.

Native Medicare Charitable Trust has been a leader in fostering and supporting the development of community-driven approaches to HIV prevention, care and support, and impact mitigation. The LIFE Project from June 2019 as an ongoing project in Tirupur District with the objective of providing increased access and health services for 1000 PLHIV 750 Children infected / affected by HIV / AIDS, 750 families affected by HIV / AIDS and around 2,99,500 key population including Female Sex Workers, Male Sex Workers, Transgender and Migrant Workers.

NMCT has been working in Coimbatore and Tirupur Districts to provide awareness on STI, HIV/AIDS Prevention among Migrants and Care & Support for HIV/AIDS infected / affected people and their family members & Children since 2002. The families infected by HIV/AIDS have to incur huge expenditures out of their income for their medical treatments. They could not spare adequate money for spending towards education of their children nor they care for their education due to family circumstances. The infected families with their many hardships and financial constraints could educate their children up to the school level. They are not afford to spend for their higher education including College education and Polytechnics. The proposed project aims at continuing support the infected / affected children for higher education enabling them for employability and support for their families.

Native Medicare Charitable Trust has been a leader in fostering and supporting the development of community-driven approaches to HIV prevention, care and support, and impact mitigation. The LIFE Project from June 2019 as an ongoing project in Tirupur District with the objective of providing increased access and health services for 1000 PLHIV 750 Children infected / affected by HIV / AIDS, 750 families affected by HIV / AIDS and around 2,99,500 key population including Female Sex Workers, Male Sex Workers, Transgender and Migrant Workers.

NMCT has been working in Coimbatore and Tirupur Districts to provide awareness on STI, HIV/AIDS Prevention among Migrants and Care & Support for HIV/AIDS infected / affected people and their family members & Children since 2002. The families infected by HIV/AIDS have to incur huge expenditures out of their income for their medical treatments. They could not spare adequate money for spending towards education of their children nor they care for their education due to family circumstances. The infected families with their many hardships and financial constraints could educate their children up to the school level. They are not afford to spend for their higher education including College education and Polytechnics. The proposed project aims at continuing support the infected / affected children for higher education enabling them for employability and support for their families.