Inter Mission Industrial Development Association is a charitable Social Service Organization functioning from 1974 having the mission to provide “value based holistic training and rehabilitation to orphans, poor youth, poor women, the unemployed and the underprivileged”.
IID runs 4 Industrial Training Schools, 7 Community Colleges and few daycare and health care projects for the benefit of said target groups.
Unemployment is the root cause of many problems prevalent in India. It developed also because of an imbalance between education and employment. Through the community college system we aim at providing work and life coping education, enabling the disadvantaged to find employment. The close and active linkage between industry and community college is the success secret of our colleges.
The Inter-Mission Micro Enterprise development (IMED) Program was started in the year 1996 to help women by micro-loans to start their businesses and by programs that help them save money etc. As the IMED work expanded, the women who were being helped brought to the light the problems that their children were facing. The survey study revealed that most of these women’s children were female, and had stopped going to school for various reasons.
Therefore, IID decided to set up non-residential training centers for young people, particularly girls, to help them learn skills, to find jobs, and to show them that they too could earn money and help support their family. On the 1st of July, 2003, the first Tabitha Community College was started for girls at Vadapalani, in the center of Chennai city. Other Community Colleges followed in the parts of Chennai known as Kellys, Aminjikarai and Kottivakkam, both for boys and girls. Through the tsunami disaster in December 2004 the need in the coastal towns of Karaikal and Mahabalipuram (300 km and 50 km resp. south of Chennai) challenged IID to start 2 Community Colleges in the year 2005. The young women and men learn a variety of subjects such as: Computer Applications, Typewriting, Shorthand, Accountancy, Fashion Design, Health Assistants, Medical Lab Technicians, Electricians. and a variety of other job oriented courses. Not only work skills are taught, but also subjects such as Life coping skills, Communication and Interpersonal skills. Before they complete their one-year training, the students are sent to companies and industries for a one-month internship period.
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