Dalit Solidarity

“Vincent thiag and leenus thiag are husband and wife”

“Donna m. Mullin esq (treasurer director) will review form 990”

“The board of directors contemporaneously document the meetings held or written actions undertaken during the year by the organization.”

“The governing documents of the organization are available upon request.”

“Form 990, part iii organizations primary exempt purposeto provide health care services & educational development for the poor families who can not afford it.educational programdalit solidarity provides over 1000 students a year with the opportunity to obtain a quality education through grants supporting the following programs: st patricks academyst. Patrick, a brainchild of dalit solidarity offers a unique and innovative approach to delivering education to underserved students, featuring highly competent and well-trained faculty, aesthetically designed spacious classrooms that encourage creativity and active engagement, opportunities to incorporate surrounding nature into study, and individualized attention and learning strategies customized for each student. St. Patrick ensures that every child has access to quality education. Currently we have 550 students from forty nearby villages and 35 staff. We are intending to upgrade the school into higher secondary to accommodate the graduates from the 10th grade. Mother theresa schoolthis project is carried out by father dave for the education of dalit children. He has been supporting their education with donations from us friends for many years. He has more than 300 children and 15 staff. There is a residence attached to the school to concentrate on the education of the poor children. Health care programunder the health care programs, dalit solidarity provides basic health care services to rural communities in india. Most of these villages have no access to immediate emergency care or at an affordable rate. We continue st.marys health center for the last 18 years with the help of our medical staff. Nursing service is free. Patients pay only what they can for necessary medications. The clinics also offer a free yearly check-up to local schoolchildren and run free medical camps. Our clinics provide health education, preventive care and increased quality of life to those suffering the miseries wreaked by poverty, illiteracy and lack of transportation. We support leprosy care for forty families toward rehabilitation. Pastoral project dalit solidarity is supporting marginalized communities through various pastoral projects both in india, mynmar and sri lanka. During the covid pandemic, we supported many dioceses and religious communities with relief activities. We offered safe drinking water in rural villages by digging borewells in times of drought. We offered hope to widows through microfinance to become bread winners of their families. Tuition and scholarshipdalit solidarity supports the evening and weekend tuition center for the dalit children. Scholarships have been given to many students to continue their schooling despite poverty. Hundreds of children were able to attend college studies with the help of our incentives and tuition. More than 200 students benefit out of this program in learning english, computer and extra curricular activites. Corona reliefduring the time of pandemic, dalit solidarity distributed food packages to rural communities who have been at the brink of starvation. More than 10,000 families in 200 villages were taken care during this time of lockdown. Both masks and sanitizers were also provided to schools and churches to protect them from the spread of the virus. The food relief was a huge blessings for the rural population in the state of tamil nadu, telangana, gujarat and chhattisgarh. Usaid projectdalit solidarity received an award from asha (american schools and hospitals abroad) to build ten classrooms at st. Patricks academy. This award will help us to expand the facility with computer labs and library. Such provision will help our school to upgrade into higher secondary level. More than ten class rooms were constructed with computer labs through this award. St. Little flower schoolthis is a rural school with more than 350 children from more than ten villages. With the help of deacon jim, the school was upgraded to high school by constructing two floo”