35 million people in Tamil Nadu live on around £1 a day


Education

Children at a Balwady school Standing up in class can be scary Children are encouraged to plant kitchen gardens at their schools Boys listening and learning at a SCAD school Children playing at an informal school in India SCAD ensure that more girls stay in school and go on to higher education Children at a SCAD school learning how to use computers SCAD provide equipment so that children can play at school Children in India often bike to school Girls in SCAD higher education institutions

 

Anbu Illam

Children at Anbu Illam hanging out Emi Rose Children at Anbu Illam playing Jowel Isekimuthu Children tending the garden at Anbu Illam Children at Anbu Illam playing with a giant colour wheel Children walking in the gates at Anbu Illam Jeba Kumar Children at Anbu Illam

 

Women’s Self Help Groups

Women's Self Help Group in their SCAD saris SCAD training women in making shoes SCAD women going to meeting in their orange saris Women training in garment making Women's self help group meeting SCAD women all dressed in green saris for solidarity

Tree planting

SCAD are giving women seeds to start kitchen gardens Saplings from the nursery ready to be planted Eleveni in the SCAD nursery Sowing seeds We plant trees next to Ooranies SCAD employees planting saplings

SCAD Soil Fertility Project

SCAD Soil Fertility Unit The SCAD soil fertility management team SCAD Anearobic biodigester fertiliser Biochar around a banana plant Experimenting with pyrolosis Finished large pyrolsis unit Finished large pyrolsis unit Cooking with gas fire from the biodigester The first fire in the pyrolysis unit

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