Health support & rehabilitation
Residential care: a short stay home and old age home in Dindigul, a de-addiction home at Tharagampatti, and the short stay home for people living with HIV/AIDS that opened at Mylampatti in 2007.
Health, sanitation & waste management
Safe water, working toilets, waste that is collected and processed, and healthcare that reaches the village — four parts of the same public health problem.
22
TWAD water testing laboratories
66,000+
Water samples tested a year
86
Tonnes of waste a day, Dindigul
10,222
Household latrines, 2012–13 report
Our health mission
Building healthier communities
How we deliver
We work as the delivery arm of public bodies — as the TWAD Board’s outsourcing agency for water testing, as the agency entrusted with Dindigul City Municipal Corporation’s waste programme, and alongside the health department under the Total Sanitation Campaign.
The strongest part of this sector is water quality. Coodu Trust was selected by the Tamil Nadu Water Supply and Drainage Board as its outsourcing agency for water testing, and now staffs and runs 22 laboratories across seven districts of the Thanjavur region, testing 66,000+ samples a year and training villages to test their own water with Field Test Kits.
The second is waste. The trust is entrusted with the Solid Waste Management programme for Dindigul City Municipal Corporation: 400 sanitary workers across 12 divisions collecting and processing 86 tonnes a day, plus a Domestic Breeding Checker team of 110 working house to house against mosquito-borne disease. Under the Total Sanitation Campaign the reports record 10,222 household latrines across 11 districts, and in health, general rural camps have run in the watershed villages since 2003 — 6,253 people in 2004–05 alone — alongside a targeted HIV prevention project that reached 6,512 migrant workers in Karur in 2009–10.
Focus areas
Six programs, one healthier community
Community health services
General rural health camps in the watershed villages with doctors, free medicines and referral into the public system — plus 24/7 ambulatory and mortuary services and a COVID care centre.
Disease-specific interventions
HIV prevention among migrant workers in Karur, COVID-19 outreach in Chennai’s slums, and 110 Domestic Breeding Checkers working house to house against dengue, chikungunya and malaria.
Water quality & safety
22 laboratories run as the TWAD Board’s outsourcing agency, 66,000+ samples tested a year, and Field Test Kit training that leaves monitoring in the village.
Sanitation & hygiene infrastructure
Individual household latrines across 11 districts under the Total Sanitation Campaign, school and Anganwadi toilets, a rural sanitary mart, and hygiene education in schools.
Solid waste management
86 tonnes a day collected and processed across 12 divisions of Dindigul with 400 sanitary workers, and decentralised composting at Padappai Panchayat with Renault P. Ltd.
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