The spread of education among the weaker sections of our society is vital as education is a prime requisite for socio-economic development. A gap has emerged between the educated elites and the tribal people.
To bridge this gap, “Wild Wing Society” (WWS), a grass- roots group, was formed in the year 2009. With a passion to help the needy and aim to protect our Mother Earth, WWS has carried out various activities which include creating awareness on education, afforestation and tiger conservation among rural areas and distribution of solar lanterns among 100 families in a remote tribal hamlet of Malliamman Durgam in the district of Erode, Tamil Nadu.
Backed up by the enormous credits and encouragement received ,WWS has now taken up the project “Green Books” in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve which completely focuses on tribal education. To put the tribal students on an equal footing with the non-tribal, WWS has adopted a tribal school at Topslip. In the first phase, every weekend (from March 5, 2011- May 8, 2011) WWS volunteers will conduct teaching sessions in the topslip tribal school to improve the educational status of the children. They (5 volunteers + 1 WWS coordinator) travel from Coimbatore to topslip every Saturday morning and engage the tribal children with various assigned tasks for their development. On Sunday, volunteers either spend the day with tribal children or go on treks, wildlife safaris availed by forest department in topslip and return back to Coimbatore by Sunday evening. The first phase of this project was successfully initiated on March 5, 2011 with the help of 5 new volunteers of WWS who were directly involved in this mission and 5 volunteers who were indirectly involved, with various supports from the help of local WWS members in Pollachi which includes scientists and organic farmers.
Water is the elixir of life.
As our first activity, on March 5, 2011, three RO Water purification plant were installed at Topslip tribal school, hostel and Parambikulam tribal hostel respectively .Topslip tribal school is the only school for 7 tribal hamlets inside the core zone of tiger reserve and the children studying in the school are very much prone to diseases caused due to high fluoride content in the water which the drink. Being a residential school, children will be able to access potable water which will sustain their health. Arrangements have also been made to use the same water for cooking purpose. The volunteers also conducted a complete survey on the status of education of tribal children with various parameters and created a profile of 30 students with the details of all the skills and education they have. A meeting with Mr. Vijayananad IFS (Field Director- Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary) was also held to discuss on activities in Parambikulam tribal school.
Our Volunteer with tribal kids
Only by providing better communication facilities, teaching materials and methods we can hope to bring about an attitude change in the tribal population towards education. Otherwise in the present state of affairs, the dream about tribal education would always remain a dream.
Join hands with us to make this dream come true.
To bridge this gap, “Wild Wing Society” (WWS), a grass- roots group, was formed in the year 2009. With a passion to help the needy and aim to protect our Mother Earth, WWS has carried out various activities which include creating awareness on education, afforestation and tiger conservation among rural areas and distribution of solar lanterns among 100 families in a remote tribal hamlet of Malliamman Durgam in the district of Erode, Tamil Nadu.
Backed up by the enormous credits and encouragement received ,WWS has now taken up the project “Green Books” in the Anamalai Tiger Reserve which completely focuses on tribal education. To put the tribal students on an equal footing with the non-tribal, WWS has adopted a tribal school at Topslip. In the first phase, every weekend (from March 5, 2011- May 8, 2011) WWS volunteers will conduct teaching sessions in the topslip tribal school to improve the educational status of the children. They (5 volunteers + 1 WWS coordinator) travel from Coimbatore to topslip every Saturday morning and engage the tribal children with various assigned tasks for their development. On Sunday, volunteers either spend the day with tribal children or go on treks, wildlife safaris availed by forest department in topslip and return back to Coimbatore by Sunday evening. The first phase of this project was successfully initiated on March 5, 2011 with the help of 5 new volunteers of WWS who were directly involved in this mission and 5 volunteers who were indirectly involved, with various supports from the help of local WWS members in Pollachi which includes scientists and organic farmers.
The present scenario at the tribal school is as seen below
Water is the elixir of life.
As our first activity, on March 5, 2011, three RO Water purification plant were installed at Topslip tribal school, hostel and Parambikulam tribal hostel respectively .Topslip tribal school is the only school for 7 tribal hamlets inside the core zone of tiger reserve and the children studying in the school are very much prone to diseases caused due to high fluoride content in the water which the drink. Being a residential school, children will be able to access potable water which will sustain their health. Arrangements have also been made to use the same water for cooking purpose. The volunteers also conducted a complete survey on the status of education of tribal children with various parameters and created a profile of 30 students with the details of all the skills and education they have. A meeting with Mr. Vijayananad IFS (Field Director- Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary) was also held to discuss on activities in Parambikulam tribal school.
Our Volunteer with tribal kids
Join hands with us to make this dream come true.
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