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Peace Industrial School
PEACE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL – For education that edifies
Peace Industrial School is the social, educational and economical intervention of Peace Trust for the uplift of the marginalised and downtrodden segments of the society, especially the liberated child labourers, the unemployed youth and the underemployed women of a backward and agro-based community.
It has now grown into a hub of social change and sustained development, recognised as one of the prime institutions in this class, in the whole of South India. Through it, Peace Trust has moved a long way ahead towards the realisation of its goals, a child-labour-free, pollution-free, egalitarian world of social equanimity, economic self-reliance and environmental equilibrium.
Peace Industrial School, the first of the education and training institutions founded by Peace Trust, in the year 2000, continues as a formal training institute for women and youth in gainful self-employment programmes like electrical technician course, cutting and tailoring course, embroidery and needle work course and computer education.
Four new branches of the school have been started as intuitions of intense intellectual activity in the areas of environmental education, teachers’ training, information technology and social leadership:
1. Peace Environmental Education Centre located at Sirumalai, Dindigul (Estd. in 2006)
2. Peace College of Education located at Vittilanaykampatti, Dindigul (Estd. in 2007)
3. Peace Information Technology Centre located at RM Colony, Dindigul (Estd. in 2002)
4. Peace Centre for Leadership located at Police Colony, Trichy Road, Dindigul (Estd. in 2009)
Peace Environmental Education Centre, Sirumalai, Dindigul – for a safer tomorrow
Peace Environmental Education Centre started functioning at Sirumalai, 20 km from Dindigul, in 2006. Sirumalai, an offshoot of the Western Ghats, one of the most bio-diverse areas in the world, is famous for the abundant growth of medicinal herbs and valuable trees. It has plenty of trekking paths criss-crossing the area, covered with thick evergreen forest-growth. Most of Sirumalai area has been declared a reserved forest area and the place is most suited for an institution of environmental studies. Also there is a proposal by the Government to declare Sirumalai an Eco- tourism spot.
From its very inception, Peace Environment Education Centre (Peace Trust) has been working as the nodal agency for organising National Environment Awareness Programme of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. Field studies and educational programmes on global warming, climatic changes, environment, bio-diversity, sustainable development, etc. are carried out and taught in detail with practical training sessions. Young Students are trained to be the guardians of the environment.
Peace Industrial School is planning to relocate the Community Radio, Pasumai 90.4 FM, to the Sirumalai branch unit in order to reach the tribal and hill population in addition to the rural population in and around Dindigul.
Peace College of Education, Vittilanaykampatti, Dindigul – for qualitative improvement of formal education.
Peace College of Education started functioning in 2007. It is affiliated to the Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University, Chennai. The objective is to ensure quality education to the children of the low-income group people who depend upon the Government education facilities and similar low-cost institutions where the standard of education is generally considered far below the average.
Its geographical setting in a backward rural area reflects its vision of changing the formal basic education of the rural masses of the country. In a country where top quality education is reserved for the urban elite, Peace Trust has taken a daring initiative to take a giant stride in the qualitative improvement of the teaching personnel trained for the formal education of the children of the common man, particularly the farming community and the marginalised segments.
Peace Information Technology Centre, Rani Mangammal Colony, Dindigul – Exploiting the Media Explosion
The advent of community radio stations is a recent development in this country where the All India Radio with its state-controlled AM stations and commercial FM stations were the only infotainment radio channels available to the public. The mushroom growth of new community FM stations has resulted in thousands of job opportunities in the media sector. Preparing the unemployed and underemployed youth to exploit this job market is the prime objective of Peace Information Technology Centre.
Courses in content preparation, web radio management and maintenance, audio communication methods, editing and mixing techniques, sound effect techniques, etc. relating to the radio media, other electronic media work like preparation of CDs and courses related to the print media are conducted here. The youth are encouraged to be the instruments of social change through media programmes that will touch the heart of the common people.
Peace Centre for Leadership, Police Colony, Trichy Road, Dindigul - gearing up for tomorrow’s global scenario
The easiest way to change the community is to change those in the leadership role in the community. If the leaders are chosen from the target community itself, change will be speedier and long-lasting. Peace Trust started the Centre for Leadership in 2009 for the realisation of this specific objective. Social interactions, biography reading, media analysis, creative theatre, social responsibility, good governance, etc. are the areas of intense training.
The youth and women of the urban and rural areas around Dindigul, especially from the rural farming community which is the most virulent in resisting changes, are given training in taking up leadership roles, in personality development, etc., to bring positive changes at the grass-roots level. They will be able to lead the community into a brighter tomorrow, making their communities rise up to the challenges of the twenty first century, and measure up to the rise of India into a leadership role in the global scenario.
PEACE TRUST – for a brighter tomorrow for the downtrodden masses
Peace Trust is a non-governmental, non-sectarian, non-profit-making organisation founded in the year 1984 with the objectives of emancipation of the child-labourers, welfare of the migrant workers, empowerment of the women folk, economic uplift of the farming community, propagation of social equality, protection of the environment, fight against industrial pollution, rehabilitation of natural calamity victims, etc., through awareness programmes, education and training projects, radio and print media campaigns and direct intervention methods.
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