PROJECTS

The Children And Youth In Peace Circle

PURA Organized campaigns, seminars, signature campaigns and rallies on Peace building among the youth by organizing them under Peace Groups.

Tailoring Training Centre

PURA initiated a tailoring training center for Tsunami affected young girls at Sambasivapuram. Each batch contains 15 students of such category.

Family Counseling Centre

PURA is facilitating a family counseling cell for the women who are in distress due to family harassment. Nearly 44 petitions have received from the affected women and men by the PURA

Tree Plantation in Private Lands

PURA’s cultural troop is mostly giving performances in Kanyakumari District, which is our working area. Performing folk art events like traditional dances with folk songs and street plays on social issues for awareness building and motivation.

Related to environment protection

Awareness creation through cultural performances. We organized cultural programmes in Kumarapuram, Aralvaimozhi, Erachakulam, Esanthimangalam, Poothapandi, Rajavoor, Azhagappapuram, Parakkai, Thiruppathisaram, and Thovalai. Bharathi Kalaikuzhu from Trichy

Tree plantation day conducted on

An Exhibition was conducted in the Forest office premises in Aralvaimozhi on 21st March 2014. The exhibition was organized to create awareness on the varieties of trees, life and growth of trees and the uses of trees. School students were demonstrating tree saplings in the exhibition.

Coir Units For Women In Tsunami Affected Villages

PURA has issued 128 coir machines with the financial assistance of CAF/GIVE2 Asia to the deprived women in 13 centers. Each machine has 4 beneficiaries in a family, totally 128 families and hence 512 women are benefited out of this project.

Solar Dry Fish Processing Unit For Tsunami Affected Women

PURA with the financial assistance of CAF/GIVE2 Asia has started a Solar dry fish processing unit at Mondaikkaduputhur for the Tsunami affected fisher women. 50 women are benefited out of this project.

Play back theatre

PURA’s cultural troop is mostly giving performances in Kanyakumari District, which is our working area. Performing folk art events like traditional dances with folk songs and street plays on social issues for awareness building and motivation. The important themes covered are sustainable livelihood promotion.

Repair and Renovation of Tsunami Damaged Houses

Immediately after Tsunami, PURA undertook provision of temporary shelter to the tsunami affected families at Pillai thoppu,Kanyakumari district with the help of people’s watch,Madurai .260 families were accommodated in our shelters. Pura has accomplished Repair and Renovation of Tsunami damaged houses in three coastal villages. We have completed 201 houses in Enayam and Enayam puthenthurai coastal villages and 126 houses in Ramanthurai coastal village. .