Saturday, December 12, 2009

Durai Charitable Trust - PGC


Durai Charitable Trust founded by S.Duraiswamy (Founder of PGC Industries and a Member & Award winner of Social Accountability International) & Trustees D.Prem & Aadith.D.Vikram is focused on the upliftment of the deprived by enabling and empowering them. The trust is a Not-For-Profit organization. Guided by basic principles of promoting sustainable development, the Trust focuses on improving the Human Development Index through initiatives in achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG).

The trust aims at poverty alleviation through empowerment of rural and semi-urban youth by creating capacities and empowering the youth by facilitating job oriented skills. It believes that harnessing the untapped potential of this sizable section of the society can bring about the socio-economic transformation in the country.

The trust understands the need of consortium approach for faster, better results and is already in partnership with Prem Durai Exports, Switcher, T-Mart, Respect India, Beausoleil for project implementations.

The successful projects at Tirupur include


Free Water Supply for Poor every day,


YES (Youngster Education Support) program imparting vocational skills of Textile Industry like Tailoring. Also facilitates Computer Skills and library for rural and semi-urban youths.


Other projects are Universal education mission - Free schools for poor and Free Mobile schools for deprived


Health Camps and Clinique across Tirupur for all mission which conducts eye camps, free dispensaries, AIDS awareness project - distribution of free condoms and campaigns,


Environment sustainability mission of Green energy by wind mills and solar cooker for rural villages of TN, 25000 Tree Planting, VelaiSMS project to facilitate empowerment of digitally challenged communities by "Information empowerment".

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