Activities and Projects

Education and child welfare

ATMT staff support project workers who run hostels for girls and for boys and give access to education in calm, caring living conditions.





• Training is provided for hostel wardens, carers and teachers.
• A new computer institute run by women focuses on computer education for women and children from the hostels and from slum areas.
  

Medical facilities

ATMT members provide mentoring and capacity building training for women workers in Pune's slum areas. These women are involved in:

• outreach work where local community workers befriend and advise families in their area
• leprosy, HIV/AIDS, anaemia and TB clinics offer diagnosis and treatment
• public health and health awareness programmes educate communities and work against superstition and ignorance
• vaccination, eye and dental check up and treatment camps.
  

Creating sustainable livelihoods

We aim to encourage the growth of existing projects and to support new initiatives through the work of the Arya Tara Mahila Trust, for example:

• Small business development e.g. screen-printed greetings cards and small-scale manufacturing projects based on the idea of 'fair-trade'.