HIV/AIDS is a huge problem in the Namakkal District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Here, intense drought caused by the absence of the monsoons is resulting in a major labour migration among the population. And this is leading to an increased risk of the spread of HIV/AIDS. Another important factor contributing to the spread of HIV/AIDS is road transport which is a major form of employment in this region. Drivers have unsafe contact with prostitutes and then take the disease home with them and their wives are frequently widowed. Relief services lack sufficient resources and are too sparsely distributed to be effective in dealing with the problem. Many children are direct or indirect victims of HIV/AIDS because they become infected or because their parents die from the disease. Lack of knowledge among people in the children’s environment also means that they are often stigmatised and discriminated against.

 

Society for Serving Humanity creates community support for people with HIV/AIDS, and raises awareness of the problems on a local level in order to combat discrimination. This project intends to create facilities for a training centre of SSH, to make the organisation more sustainable.

This project is aimed at helping children from poor villages located in very remote mountainous areas in northwest Thailand. Many of these children cannot complete primary school because of the long travel distances to school and the lack of good living accommodations at the schools.
The Samsara Foundation is helping to solve this problem by providing several schools in this mountainous northwest region with living accommodations and other facilities so that children can live at their school during school periods and thus complete their primary education. 

One of the most important and essential contribution to a better life for the children, is access to clean drinking water. It prevents diseases, but the availability of clean water will also attract more and better-qualified teachers to the mountain schools. Many schools in this specific area do not have access to clean drinking water. This project is aimed specially at the installation of twenty water purification machines at twenty schools. Ten of the twenty schools do not have access to water at the end of the dry season. These schools also need a cement water collecting tank to store the rainwater during the rainy season to use in the dry season.