• Carry out welfare activities in the areas to improve the living standards of the Adivasi Dalit community.
• Conduct social awareness campaigns and classes.
• Explore self-employment opportunities in the area and provide logistics and support
• Establish counseling centres to provide help and guidance to Adivasi- Dalit women
• Conduct medical camps and provide free basic health care. Initiate programs to conserve the local ecosystem.
• initiate programs to conserve the local ecosystem
• Provide a platform to preserve and promote the culture and art forms of the Adivasi-Dalit community.
• Strive for human resource enhancement in the area.
• Initiate programs to provide economic stability in the area, through guidance and support for self-employment programmes, cottage industries and agriculture.
• Establish branches, institutions and outlets to conduct the above mentioned programmes.

Activities of the centre

The most important activity of the Centre is care and education of girl children of Adivasi and Dalit origin from broken families and therefore vulnerable to be abused. Such girls are given food, shelter, education and in some cases their marriages are also done at the initiative of the centre. This initiative is known as Snehibhavan (A home of love and protection), a hostel for such girls which was started in the year 2000.

Main source of income for the activities of the centre and Snehibhavan was donations from friends in the neighborhood and likeminded people who found the centre's activities very important. In 2011 the centre was granted FCRA registration by the Government of India.

We got an encouragement to the starting of Snehibhavan was the study initiated by Sajini Mathews with the help of a project conducted by UNICEF in association with Sakhi Women's Resource Centre, Thiruvananthapuram to bring forth the social and economic statues of Dalit communities in the Dalit colonies (exclusive dwellings of Dalits in Idukki district of Kerala. The study was conducted in forty three Dalit colonies in Thodupuzha and Devikulam Taluk of Idukki district and it revealed the dismal conditions prevailing there:

• Lack of facilities for quality education,
• Lack of opportunities among the colony residents for providing quality education to their wards and thereby ensuring better life for their children and themselves.
• Issues related to livelihood rights
• Physical and mental health deterioration due to consistent torturing by outsiders and due to ill-health environment in the colonies.
• The consistent compulsion to migrate from rural to urban areas
• Lack of ownership over cultivable land and water
• Increasing rate of unwedded mothers.
• Increasing domestic violence in which women and children are injured and in certain cases brutally murdered.

The conditions in the colonies demanded a more intensive approach and a critical appraisal on the increasing number of colonies and its pathetic conditions. The immediate need of the hour was to rescue children, particularly girls, and to provide them with facilities where they would be safe and can have the freedom to study and live without fear.

Now after twenty four years, Snehibhavan is a home for around hundred girl children who were enrolled in nearby educational institutions and are successfully completing various courses. A majority of the girls who joined Snehibhavan in its initial years got married and are well settled with having jobs that make them self-reliant. A few of them are into teaching and pharmacy courses as part of their higher studies. Snehibhavan envisages that the aim of the home should not only be providing security and education for these children, but to go beyond by providing them training on various skills so as to make them self-reliant. Snehibhavan also compulsorily ensure that the children are send out of the home with qualities for self-reliability and that new children are enrolled at regular intervals. The administration of the snehi bhavan is ably guided by the governing body of ADWESC.