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ATHENCOTTASAN   MUTHAMIZH KAZHAGAM - AMK 

(social service organization - Since 1971)

7-46 B, Mondaikad & Post

Kanyakumari District.

South India.

PIN : 629252

PHONE : 04651 - 222356,223382,

                              223384,223342.

E-Mail :   amkcentre@rediffmail.com 

            amkhospital@yahoo.com

                          amkcentre@gmail.com 

 

INTRODUCTION FROM THE ADMINISTRATIVE PRESIDENT: 

AMK  AT  A  GLANCE:

 

GENESIS OF THE ORGTANISATION:
  • AMK – Athencottasan Muthamizh Kazhagam is a voluntary secular social service organization started functioning from the year 1971.
  • It was formed to realise the  dream of  providing a social security net and creating access to basic needs to the  disadvantaged population.
  •  The seed was sown by  pulavar T. Retnaswamy,  now a retired teacher, who named the organisation after his mentor Pulavar Athencottaasan.
  •  Health for all was the motto behind the formation.   It has grown as a multi service NGO during the 36 years of dedicated service and now is addressing a variety of issues confronting the poor and the marginalized people.

LEGAL PLATFORM: 

Registered under :

  • Tamilnadu Societies Registration Act.27 of 1975,  
  • Reg.No. Reg.No.85/1971
  • FCRA-Reg.No.075890132
  • Sec.12AA and 80G -(5),(vi) of Income Tax Act
  • PAN: AAATA4206G
  • TAN: MRIA01783F

VISION OF AMK: 

To provide easy access to quality health care and other essential needs of life to people from poor communities by enabling the communities to realise their needs and seek seek their needs and social justice for themselves.

 MISSION OF AMK: 

AMK ‘s mission focus is conducting health care service programmes, carrying out capacity building training and motivating activities, implementing programmes which would empower the poor communities socially and economically and integrating them with facilities which would enable them to meet thief needs for themselves.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF AMK:

 

Ø     Provide care and  support for orphan, semi=orphan and destitute children.

Ø     Provide basic health care to the rural poor especially women, children and aged persons..

Ø     Treatment and rehabilitation of persons addicted to alcohol and other intoxicating drugs..

Ø     Prevention and control of  HIV/AIDS, providing them care and support and and prevention and control of sexually transmitted diseases.

Ø     Empowerment of women and children

Ø      Rural housing and providing shelter for the poor

 

GEOGRAPHICAL WORKING AREA OF AMK

 

Ø     AMK is located at Naduvoorkarai, Mondaikad in Kanyakumari District. Tamilnadu, South India.

Ø     Kanyakumari is a tiny with 1800 sq km but thickly populated with 17.5 people.

Ø     Our organisation covers whole of Kanyakumari district besides including the people living in the bordering areas of Kerala.

Ø     Our works are mainly concentrated in the four taluks of Kanyakumari district namely four Taluks namely 1) Agasteeswaram, 2) Thovalai, 3) Kalkulam, 4) Vilavancode,

   

AMK’S  ACTIVITIES

 

S.No.

 Activity Achievements
1. Home for Destitute Children for Educational and Health Development of Children in distress. AMK started a home for destitute children in 1979.  The main aim of this programme is to fulfil the health and educational needs of destitute children. The home is a continuour programme for in AMK’s activities ane the same was continued in the year 2005-2006  also. The children are provided periodic health check up and their health conditions are maintained with proper medicare.  We have attached a mini clinic in the home with a visiting doctor and paramedical staff.  The children are sent to school and their educational needs are also fulfilled.  From the start of the home in 1979,  750 destitute children have availed health care and education as inmates of the home.  During the year 2005-2006 and at present  we are providing education and health care for 30 destitute children through the home. Ø      This programme is still continuing
2. Drug deaddiction treatment cum rehabilitation centre. With the assistance from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment we conducted Drug Awareness, Counseling and Assistance centre from the year 1995 to 1999 which subsequently converted into a full time deaddiction treatment cum rehabilitation centre.  With assistance from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment we got sanction for a deaddiction centre.   We are running a deaddiction treatment cum rehabilitation centre from the year 1999.  This programme was continued in the year 2008-2006 also and is still continuing.   The centre is 15 bedded.  Through this centre we campaign and identify the addicted persons and admit them in the deaddiction centre.  We are providing them a course of treatment comprising detoxification, individual counseling, group therapy, group activity, spouse counseling, family counseling, yoga therapy and rehabilitation to the needy persons.  Since the inception of this centre we have provided treatment to over 1400 addicted persons as inpatients, at the rate of an average of 185 inpatients every year with 15 bed capacity. In the same programme we are also providing treatment to outpatient addicts. So far we have provided outpatient treatment to over 4000 persons affected by drugs/alcohol.. We have achieved over 90% of the addicted persons give up the habit and started a drug-free life.  We also followed up the relapsing cases. Ø      This programme is still continuing.
3. Mobile Counselling in collaboration with all women police station. This programme was started in the year 2002.  The counselors of our organization and the police from all women police station visit the disputed families in the villages, counsel them and settle the disputes.  Follow up measures like persuation or legal assistances are provided to settle family disputes.  Several cases of drug addicts were identified in this process and treated in our deaddiction centres.  This programme was also continued successfully in the year 2005-2006 successfully.   From the beginning of the programme we have counseled over 1200 families in which we achieved  about 70% of the family disputes settled amicably.  Ø      This programme is still continuing.
4. Alcoholic Anonymous -AA and AL-Anon Programme [groups of spouses of the addicts]. This programme was started in the year 2003.  Three centres are functioning at different places.  The persons who gave up drug/alcohol conduct meeting in these centres once a week and discuss their present conditions.  They share the good impacts they enjoyed after giving up addiction. The wives of the persons who gave up drug/alcohol also conduct meeting separately and share their experiences after their husband gave up addiction.  This programme was continued in the year 2005-2006 successfully with routine programmes and more participation especially the participation of the persons cured during the year 2005-2006. These meetings are very useful to attract other addicted persons from the area to take treatment in our deaddiction cenetre.  Ø      This programme is still continuing.
5. PREVENTION OF HIV/AIDS- A COLLABORATIVE PROGRAMME WITH NACO. With assistance from NACO through the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment we started conducting a HIV/AIDS awareness programme in Kanyakumari district from the year 2004.  We were provided this programme by the Ministry as we are successfully conducting the deaddiction centre. This programme was also continued in the yrar 2005-2006.Through this programme we are providing HIV/AIDS awareness to the addicted patients in our deaddiction centre, school and college students, SHG women and the general public.  This programme was conducted successfully in the year 2005-2006. Ø      This programme is still going on.
6. JJ Counseling-Juvenile Justice Counseling Observation Progtramme at Tirunelveli. This programme was started in 2004.  Through this programme our counselors visit the children sheltered in Siruvar Seerthirutha Palli located at Tirunelveli.  The counselors pay this visit twice a month.  The counselors paid their routine visits to the siruvar seerthirutha palli in the year 2005-2006 and counseled children.  So far they have paid 48 such visits and counseled over 50 to 75 children from the beginning of the programme. Ø      This programme is still going on
7. College Girls Hostel Counseling. This programme was started in the year 2004.  As in the previous years our counselors  discussed with the hostellers and provided them awareness about evils of drugs, impact of HIV/AIDS and taught them moral and ethics visiting their hostels.  The counselors paid two visits per month.  They are now covering 10 women’s hostels through this programme. Ø      This programme is still continuing. 
8.. PPTCT Programme-under GFATM project- through TANSACS. The main aim of this programme is to prevent transmission of HIV/AIDS from mother to child.  We are interacting with ANCs in Kanykaumari district. The target is 27000 ANCs per year.  We started this programme from the year 2005.  This intervention was continued in the year 2005-2006.  So far we have identified 22000 ANCs and conducted blood check ups.  In case of positive results we provided them neverapin medicines and prevented mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS. We have so far identified 8 HIV positive ANCs and provided them treatment and ensured deliveries in which there was no HIV transmission to the child.  Two such HIV positive ANCs are waiting for delivery who are under our treatment. Also, we are conducting HIV/AIDS awareness programme among VHNs, Anganwadis, government and private hospital staff, ANCs, SHGs, school and college students. We are continuing this programme in coordination with PHCs, Government hospitals, Kanyakumari medical college, Private hospitals and the government health officials. 50 PLHAs are under our care in this programme.  Ø      This is a continuous programme.
9. Family Health Awareness Campaign. A Family Halth Awareness Campaign was conducrted from 14th to 28th in the month of November 2005 under the sponsorship of TANSACS-Chennai.  FHA camps were conducted in 59 villages during the time mentioned above.  The following activities were conducted as part of  the camps. Ø      Meeting with the village leaders, Panchayat officials, Rotary and Fan clubs, Self Help Groups and Traders’ associations and with their support the local people were organized in the camps. Ø      Placed notice boards at various places and attracted the local people for the camps. Ø      Provided basic information and motivation for maintaining better health and promoting family welfare to the rural parents. Ø      IEC materials were distributed and information on family health and family welfare was disseminated among the rural masses. Ø      Referrals were made for the cases found to have serious health problems identified in the camps.  The camps were very useful to promote knowledge and motivation among the rural people to encourage them to achieve better halth and family welfare .
10. Street Play Campaigns. With a view to promote awareness among the tribes along the Tamil Nadu Kerala bordering areas on drug addiction, protection of  forest resources, natural resource conservation and environment protection we conducted periodic street plays in tribal habitations in Kanyakumari district during the year 2005-2006.   We started this programme in 2005.  So far we have conducted 8 such street play awareness programmes and covered over 3000 tribes. As intended the programme helped to generate awareness among the tribes on evils of drug addiction and its curability through treatment, protection of  forest resources, natural resource conservation and environment protection. Ø      This is also a continuous programme.
11. PEER LED INTERVENTION PROJECT. The aim of this program is to reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS among drug users.  We started this programme in  Feb 2006 sponsored by DFID, SPYM, FINGODAP, UNODC AND RRTCs. This programme was continued in the year 2005-2006 too. We identified the drug users and their risk behaviours especially IDUs and provided them motivation to give up drug if not taught them to be risk free.  So far we have identified 375 cases in which we have referred over 100 persons and following up with others. Ø      This is an ongoing programme.
12. ‘V care U’ volunteer force. We started a ‘V care U’ volunteer force in 2005-2006 in Kanyakumari district with 50 volunteers.  The aim of this effort is to create drug-free villages through the volunteers from the same village.  We selected volunteers from the targeted villages and trained them to motivate the drug addicts to give up drug and also enlightened them on the HIV/AIDS.  We provided full knowledge to the volunteers on these two aspects who in turn worked for making their own village drug free and HIV/AIDS free.  So far these volunteers have covered 43 villages.  We intend to cover the whole  of Kanyakumari district through this programme. Ø      This will be a continuous activity of AMK.  
13. RAPID ASSESSMENT OF IDUs. This programme was given by SHARAN from New Delhi. This is a survey of IDUs- Intravenus Drug Users in Kanyakumari district.  We conducted a 2-month survey and identified 100 Intra drug users [injecting persons] and are planning to intervene with them to relieve them from Intravenus Drug Using.  There are still more IDUsers in the district and we are continuing the survey. Ø      This programme is continuing
14. AMK FREE CLINIC We have been running a clinic through which we are providing round the clock treatments preferably to people who cannot afford the health services of the private health providers.  We provide them treatment for minor ailments and refer cases with serious problems to the government hospitals.  We are running this free clinic for the past 12 years. The clinic functioned successfully during the year 2005-2006 also. So far over 10000 persons have benefited from the clinic. Ø      This is an ongoing programme.
15. WORLD ANTI DRUG DAY. We observed world anti drug day on the 26th June 2005 and also 2006 as usual.  We conducted an elocution competition for school and college students on the topic ‘drug addiction can be cured through treatment’.  Also we distributed posters with slogans on anti-drug supplied by UNODC and the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.  We also conducted a workshop on ‘Drug abuse’ in Vivekananda School.  The district collector inaugurated an anti-drug sticker pasting campaign organized by our organization pasting the sticker on his car.  The campaign was well appreciated by the government officials, NGOs and the public. We are conducting this programme every year.
16. AMK Multi purpose training centre. We have a training centre attached to our office at Mondaikad. During the reporting period the training centre was run successfully. We provides epecial trainings on health issues to health personnel of private and government health service centres/hospitals, paramedical staff, village health nurses, Anganwadis, SHG members, youth volunteers, students of schools and colleges and leaders in tribal groups.  This training centre has been serving us to build capacities among these groups so that they address the health issues of their target communities  successfully.

17.

 Emergency Ambulance Service  To provide a viable efficient service round the clock for immediate and specialized treatment. This programme was given by TamilNadu Health System Project, Govt. of TamilNadu Since March 2007. Ø      This programme is still continuing. 

18.

 Patient Counselling Centre  To provide “May I Help You” Patient counselling Service at Karungal Government Hospital. We started this programme in December 2006 sponsored by TamilNadu Health System Project, Govt. of TamilnaduØ      This programme is still continuing.

19.

 Village Knowledge Centre  To provide Knowledge to Village people at Mondaikad Puthoor. We started this programme in September 2006 sponsored by MS.Swamynathan Research Foundation. Ø      This programme is still continuing. 

20.

 HIV-TB Programme:   To increase the activities for awareness rising, home based care and patient follow up in HIV and TB Cross referrals. This programme was given by TamilNadu State AIDS Control Society, Govt. of TamilNadu Since March 2007.  Ø      This programme is still continuing.  

21.

 I-49 & G-86 Programme on UNODC:   Reducing substance Use Related HIV Vulnerability in Female Drug Users & Female Partners of male Drug Users. We started this programme in January 2007 sponsored by United Nations On Drug and Crime, New Delhi. Ø      This programme is still continuing.  
        









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