Pudiyador Association For Community Empowerment

Our Mission

Pudiyador takes a cradle-to-college approach to community empowerment. Pudiyador works with disadvantaged communities in Chennai (India) to provide access to resources and education that allow communities to break cycles of generational hardship. As an organization, we take a multi-pronged and holistic approach to ensure that we are working with the needs of all stakeholders within the community. As an organization, we operate under the premise that all Pudiyador Centres will become self-sustaining within a 5-10 year period. To be rooted in any community, we strive to build capacity of community members and empower them to manage and successfully run a Pudiyador centre in this time period; thereby allowing for future generations to take the concepts of Pudiyador forward on a needs basis.