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Theni Mavatta Pengal Samuga Porulathara Munnetra Sangam (TPSPMS) is a collective of women members and works for the empowerment of marginalized women in the district through various holistic development programmes. It currently has a membership of 1,537 women. It empowers them by creating Self-Help Groups, providing skill training, facilitating access to government schemes, HIV/AIDS prevention awareness and care, legal aid and other counselling services, etc. The NGO is supported by Swasti for the HIV AIDS prevention project supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Some of the activities for FY14 were as follows:

• Promotion of SHGs for women empowerment & economic development: 80 SHGs have been promoted by TPSPMS so far covering 967 members. Internal loans are given from the SHGs to members at an interest rate of 2% per month. 28 SHG members have been enrolled for Life Insurance under Janashree Bima Yojana (JBY) scheme.
• Arumbugal Children’s Forum: 40 children from the age group of 6-18 years are the members of this forum which meets once in six months. During the year a cultural event was held where 200 children of members participated. School bags and notebooks for 12 poor children in this forum was distributed with support from local donors.
• Support for People Living with HIV (PLHIV): CBO provides food support to 45 PLHIV in the district. Children of PLHIV are given career guidance and scholarship support for continuing their education.
• Social entitlements: TPSPMS facilitates its members to avail voter ID, ration card, old age pension (OAP), etc. During the year 70 members were supported for getting OAP, Aadhaar card and widow pension.
• Resource Mobilisation: During the year a mega cultural event was organized to raise funds for its activities. More than Rs53,000 was raised during the event by sale of tickets and sponsorship for cultural programmes.