ACT India Foundation regularly conducts community awareness programmes to improve women’s access to rights, social protection, and government welfare schemes across rural communities in Tamil Nadu. The programme educates women workers, adolescent girls, and vulnerable families on women’s rights, legal protections, workplace safety, and key legislations, including the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013.
The initiative also provides guidance and facilitation support for accessing government entitlements and social security benefits, including eShram registration, health insurance schemes, Ayushman Bharat and state health cards, maternity benefits, pension schemes, welfare board memberships, labour cards, bank accounts, and other citizen services.
Through village-level awareness sessions, community mobilisation, stakeholder engagement, and institutional linkages, the programme strengthens women’s access to information, public services, and social protection systems. Special emphasis is placed on reaching vulnerable populations, including textile workers, migrant workers, tribal communities, and economically disadvantaged women.
To date, ACT India Foundation has successfully supported more than 1,000 women workers and community members in accessing government schemes, social security benefits, and essential welfare services, thereby enhancing their economic security, health, dignity, and overall well-being.