Main Aim About Us The Centre for Rural Health and Social Education enables villages to become self-supporting in primary health care by training village level workers selected by the communities. It also trains traditional birth attendants in Siddha medicine and operates a herbal nursery where Siddha medicine preparations and demonstrations take place. It aids in the formation of women and youth groups, womens' socio-economic programmes and literacy programmes. It has developed a number of projects aimed at the protection and regeneration of the environment-formation of ecocells, community forest action programmes and environmental education in schools. It offers technical support to other organisations in the form of consultancy project advisors and evaluation services.
Training is conducted both internally and on behalf of other organisations on an ongoing basis.
Village level workers undergo a one-year training in primary health care. Refresher courses are organised for in-service and autonomous VLWs. Training is practical in orientation and organised on a participatory basis. Training is available in Tamil and English.