Our work is relevant because it aims to lessen the vulnerability of the Arunthathiyar community by providing assistance services for individuals such as sexually exploited women and manual scavengers.

Nilam Trust, a civil society organization led by an oppressed group, has been working with the women and children of the Arunthathiyar community since 2004. We work to empower the Arunthathiyar community to reduce vulnerability from manual scavenging practices in Tamil Nadu. For the past 17 years, we have been working with the Arunthathiyar community members through this program and we have seen a tremendous change in the lives of the Arunthathiyar community members and their children whom we sponsor.
We organize training for women, especially single women, who are most vulnerable to sexual exploitation and economic abuse by their employers and men in their communities.