TRUST Consultation Program

One of the means through which we hope to achieve our mission for the development and empowerment of the disadvantaged is by serving other non-profit or community-based organizations (CBOs) in a consultative and/or advisory capacity.

With over three decades of combined experience, first, CSG (our sister agency), and now, TRUST, actively works to impart our knowledge, hard-learned lessons, skills and support to other non-profit organizations that turn to us for help.  This is especially true both in the case of those organizations where handing over the reins of control to one’s constituents is the ultimate objective, and in those CBOs that are already managed and sustained by the people themselves.

TRUST consults for and advises fifteen independent CBOs known as Pengal Pannokku Kootammippu or PPK, as well as the Karumanthurai Tribal Women Milk Producers Cooperative Society in the Kalrayan Hills.  With the help of CSG, each of these fifteen PPKs were formed by the voluntary action of 3,244 self-help groups in TRUST’s project areas in the Salem and Namakkal districts of Tamil Nadu.  It is expected that TRUST’s own self-help groups will join the various PPKs or set up their own in the near future.

In addition to playing the role of mentor, we provide the PPKs with practical guidance for setting up the appropriate infrastructure for their organizations, and creating systems for auditing.  We offer training for leadership development, capacity and skill building, and other need-based training.  Our support of these PPKs extends to assisting them with their developmental activities in any way we can.  This includes, but is not limited to, helping them work with various banks, governmental institutions, or even simply making them aware of the governmental schemes available to further their activities. 

CSG helped create these PPKs when the women it served were ready to take control of their own futures.  While the women now successfully self-manage the PPKs, our hope at TRUST is to help them through the transition, and serve them in any way we can to ensure that this self-management not only continues, but becomes self-sustainable.

TRUST consulted for the following CBOs.

Salem District & Namakkal District

Ayothiyapattanam Pengal Pannokku Kootamaippu

Sendhamangalam Pengal Pannokku Kootamaippu

Panamarathupatti Pengal Pannokku Kootamaippu

Erumapatti Pengal Pannokku Kootamaippu

Valappadi Pengal Pannokku Kootamaippu

Paramathi Pengal Pannokku Kootamaippu

Pethanayackanpalayam Pengal Pannokku Kootamaippu

Mohanur Pengal Pannokku Kootamaippu

Salem Pengal Pannokku Kootamaippu

Namagiripettai Pengal Pannokku Kootamaippu

Nangavalli Pengal Pannokku Kootamaippu

Pudhuchathiram Pengal Pannokku Kootamaippu

Karumanthurai Tribal Women Milk Producers Cooperative Society (Kalrayan Hills)

Rasipuram Pengal Pannokku Kootamaippu

Thiruchangodu Pengal Pannokku Kootamaippu

Kabilarmalai Pengal Pannokku Kootamaippu