PMSSS Activities

Training Program

Right from the year 1978, PMSSS has been emphasizing on Education and Training of people for Total Integral Human Development.

The three ‘Coady Seminars’ organized by PMSSS and Coady International Institute, Canada on Development through Education and Cooperation (1980); Membership Education and Credit Union (1981) and Programme for Socio-Economic Development (1983), greatly contributed to the growth of the Leadership Training.

The goals of the training include people’s awakening, education, organization, power and action. Over the years many have been trained in leadership qualities, in agriculture and the allied activities like sanitation, environment and ecology and also in various skills to enhance their socio-economic status and empowerment.

A growing need was felt for a separate building for regular training. Hence with aid from Caritas Germany [ German Funding Agency], a training centre was constructed in 1993 at Periakalapet, around 13 kms from Pondicherry. Till 2004, the training was conducted here. Though the setting here was very ideal, the trainees began to find it difficult to reach the centre on time due to the limited public transport facilities to the area.

Hence it was decided in consultation with the village leaders to choose a more accessible place. Accordingly two Centres have been chosen, one in Cuddalore District - St. Joseph’s Industrial Training Institute and the other in Villupuram District - the Parish Hall of Christ the King Church.

The participants will choose one of these two centres according to their convenience. The building at Kalapet that served as the training centre has been converted now into a Matriculation School to cater to the educational needs of that locality.