About us :

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Background of the Organization: GST started functioning in 10 villages through non-formal education programmes in the year 1998 It was officially registered in the year 2004. The main objective of GST is "To help the Dalits and poor chidrens to help themselves". Through its intensive educational and organizational efforts, GST is able to extend its activities to 40 villages, which are situated in 3 panchayat union - Peranamallur, Chetpet and Thellar of Tiruvannamalai District. In these villages GST has formed Ambedkar Women's Associations for Dalit youth and has assisted these associations to federate under the banner of "Rural Women's Self-Reliant Movement". This movement addresses the issues of Dalits pertaining to their basic needs like drinking water, housing, burial ground, transportation, schools and primary health centers. It also addresses issues related minimum wages and social discrimination. In order to effectively take up these issues GST is training regularly groups of young people in legal education, leadership skills and social analysis. GST also trained a group of young women and men in street theatre skills and formed a street theatre group, which goes around the villages performing street theatre programmes, which serve as an effective medium of communication with the people. When GST realized that without the participation of youth one couldn't succeed in solving the problems of the community. From the year 2003 GST has involved itself in educating and organizing the Dalit youth in the villages.
Through these initiatives so far it has formed youth associations in 10 villages where the youth actively participate in Development issues of their village communities. The youth groups have also taken up step to join the young girls to taken up saving and credit schemes in 5 villages. The young women have been trained in legal issues and community health issues with an emphasis on traditional medical practices. Every year GST is training a group of 100 students both boys and girls who are from a very poor background and give them special coaching to complete their School studies. They are from the 1st-9th standard and are aged 5 to 15 years. During these coaching classes they are also given the skill education to prepare them to take up development activities in future in their respective village communities