Native Medicare Charitable Trust

Native Medicare Charitable Trust (NMCT) focuses on capacity building, promotion and support service towards achieving socio-economic empowerment. The Trust implements projects on Livelihood development, Health & Hygiene, Education to Community Children, Rural & Tribal Woman, Migrants, Tribes and People infected by HIV / AIDS.

Major Interventions:

Health:  KKS-BMZ Life project aims at providing better quality of life through Participation, access to Prevention, Treatment, Care and Education to PLHIVs, families affected by HIV/AIDS and Female Sex Workers, Male sex workers and Transgender. In order to provide Primary Health Care Services at the door steps to community people below the poverty line, the NGO provides an Ambulance which helps them to improve their health and access to health care during emergency. The ambulance service has been reaching more than 20 Tribal hamlets of Coimbatore District. NMCT in partnership with Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society, Chennai and National AIDS Control Organization, Delhi, works with migrants developing advocacy with management and targeted industries, reaches out the migrants at their door steps to create awareness on prevention of STD and HIV/AIDS. It also conducts awareness campaigns to sensitize such issues to the masses and help in the stigma reduction process.

Education: NMCT aims to provide sustainable school transformation that will ensure better learning and physical environment for children. It provides educational support for college fees, note books and accessories to pursue their university higher education as engineers, teachers, nurses, physiotherapists, etc to children of families infected by HIV/AIDS as they could not spare adequate money for spending towards the education of their children nor they care for their education due to family circumstances. Through its Happy School Project, supported by FORD Motors Pvt Ltd which is designed to address the SDG objectives of good health and well-being, quality education, gender equality.

Sanitization Measures & Awareness: NMCT aims at training the children at Government and Panchayat Union Schools on Water Sanitation and Hygiene through various programs including construction, renovation of new toilets, hand wash platforms with taps and provision for safe drinking water and Incinerators. It also sensitizes the school teachers and management committee, parents and community on WaSH along with emphasis on Menstrual Hygiene Management training.

Livelihood: Focusing on capacity building, fostering community links and promoting of small business to build sustainable livelihood options for them. Inclusion of women in economic activities and encouraging women-owned entrepreneurial ventures in rural India have proved to be successful in eradicating issues related to the livelihood of rural people.

Care & Rehabilitation: Providing care and support to marginalized sections of the society through its Abhaya Students Shelter for children in need with the objective of providing protective care and education and Abhaya Sadan – Elderly Home providing abandoned elderly women shelter and other basic necessities to survive.