What is main orientation of Paadhai?

PAADHAI Trust bases itself on the needs of the local populations. By sponsoring one or several eco-villages, it supports :

• Projects for women (for instance : micro-credit and other help for entrepreneurial activities like herbal farming, handicraft production, etc).
• Educational projects particularly in the form of evening schools for women and children.
• Health and hygiene development (for instance : dispensaries, rain water tanks and latrines creation; rediscovery of traditional medicinal herbs).
• Promotion of ecological activities like organic farming, water conservation and re-forestation.
• Infrastructure development in remote areas (roads, electricity, desalination ...)
• International networks for the local production, fair trade and export

How will Paadhai show the way?

Paadhai plans to be an effective and active interface between those who need help and those who want to help. It cannot and does not want to engage directly in field-level development work. Paadhai will seek to integrate livelihood improvement, environmental conservation and the application of appropriate technologies.

Paadhai will

• identify replicable projects that are expected to show measurable or noticeable results over a reasonable period of time and also likely to have long-term sustainable impact
• raise resources by matching the needs of a project with the interests of the donors
• implement projects through reliable local groups
• conceptualise and plan the project in detail, draw up work-plans, specify milestones, provide technical and managerial guidance to the implementing group, monitor the progress and carry out an audit
• keep the donors fully involved through sending reports, arranging visits, and linking them with the target groups
• document the process in detail describing the successes, failures and the lessons learned

To begin with, Paadhai plans to

• focus on helping impoverished and socially oppressed (dalit) villages in rural India
  work with children and women
• limit itself to teaching, training, showing the way, increasing self reliance
• concentrate on education, healthcare, self-employment, basic infrastructure and assisting in marketing the products from adopted
• villages (craft work and herbal produce)

PAADHAI Trust tends to develop models which can be proposed to other villages. It favours the development of contacts between local populations and the ones from the countries which support its actions (for instance, partnership between schools).

What are PAADHAI Trust’s values ?

• PAADHAI Trust respects the needs of the people, associating them from the beginning to the end of the projects in a perspective of total autonomy.
• The developed projects respect the local ecosystem.
• Through its benevolent action, it shows that a long time worldwide solidarity movement is possible.
• It commits that the raised funds reach directly the concerned people with a minimum cost.
• Every year, it reports about project results, good financial management and development of its activities.

What are the resources of PAADHAI Trust ?

• PAADHAI Trust’s main office sets in Bangalore. Related associations are created in Switzerland, France, United States and Australia.
• It collects funds throughout several actions.
• It locally develops its actions in partnership with competent and trustful NGOs.
• It particularly collaborates with ANAWIM TRUST, the CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT (CTD), MYRADA and other local authorities.