About Venus Trust in , Chennai

There were no active citizen's participation in the social development process in India during the past decade. Poverty was rampant and sufferings to the common people due to poverty related ill-effects was huge. Poverty resulted in the spread of killer diseases like Cancer, cholera, STDs, Malaria, pneumonia, illiteracy, environment degradation, unemployment and child infanticide and aged persons left without support. Natural calamities further speeded up the sufferings of the people during monsoon seasons. In this context a few people, here and there, started to work institutionally. This resulted in founding of NGOs by those few interesting and like minded people. One of those days informal group was Venus Trust. Though it worked informally it delivered services in the remote villages and organisation was working informally for about ten years in the working site informally and realizing the need to address the pressing poverty deprivations of the people, we needed to make the organisation in to a legal entity and registered it as a Trust under the Indian Trusts Act, 1882. Our organisation has carried out farmers' capacitance, women leadership program, building sense on environment in rural communities, cultural tours, camps on national days, non- formal education centers and network initiatives.

OBJECTIVES
* Strive to serve the handicapped and severely ill persons.

* Spread community education and health education as means of people mobilized to face social problems.

* Involve youths and children in nation building activities.

* Undertake development projects for the benefit of the marginalized and down trodden people.

* Function as a research foundation to conduct scientific research studies and surveys on matters that impinge upon society.

* Promote self employment among educated young men and women.

* Promote education through non-formal education.

* Work together with the departments of the government on issues of public interest.

* Impart training and education to the needy on the basis of their needs.

Promote organic agriculture and improve self-reliance policy in community life Grow art and culture through integrated cultural works among all sections of people Generate awareness on human rights, social justice, welfare of scavengers, eradication of child labor, female infanticide, communicable diseases, etc.
Promote sustainable environment and ecology.
Develop sanitation practices in rural areas and preventive and curative community and public, health services for the needy sections of the population.