Vazhvizhi Project

Vazhvizhi is a community development project implemented by Native Medicare Charitable Trust in collaboration with Walkaroo Foundation in the rural communities of Pappampatti, Kallapalayam and Edayarpalayam, Sulthanpet block, Coimbatore district. Phase I ran from April 2025 to March 2026; Phase II runs from April 2026 to March 2027.

It strengthens education for rural children, builds sustainable livelihoods for rural women, improves early childhood learning environments and raises community health awareness, through four initiatives.

Padashala: education

Community tuition centres for children in Classes 5 to 9: evening tuition and academic support, regular assessment, life skills and personality development, yoga and Silambam, and parent engagement.

Sakthimaiyam: livelihood

Tailoring training for rural women, entrepreneurship development, financial literacy and capacity building, leading to women-led tailoring units with market linkages and orders.

Aarogya Aarambham: Anganwadi support

Renovating Anganwadi centres so that young children have safe, clean, child-friendly places to learn, with parent awareness and community participation.

Aarokkiyame Selvam: community health

Community health camps with basic screening, preventive health education, hygiene guidance and referral for further medical consultation where needed.

Phase I results

• 3 Padashala tuition centres supporting 57 rural students.

• 41 women trained in tailoring and 20 more in training, with one tailoring unit established; 5 women completed the Entrepreneurship Development Programme and 5 the Financial Literacy training.

• 3 Anganwadi centres renovated or supported, benefiting 77 children; 9 parents took part in an awareness programme.

• 3 health camps reaching 546 people.

• 735 individual beneficiaries across all four initiatives.