Welcome to the Lincs with India website

Lincs with India is run entirely by volunteers with a membership of more than 325 and growing steadily.

As funding partners of SDET, we support some of the most deprived and disadvantaged boys and girls in the world. These are principally from the Tribal settlements in the remoter parts of the Western Ghats. The children are accommodated in supervised hostels where (often for the first time) they have access to education, medical care, and a regular, wholesome diet. Suitable candidates are helped through higher education or trade training.

We also support the communities from which these children come by providing equipment to local schools, establishing and funding First Aid Medical Centres and, in the Tribal areas, setting up pre-school facilities (Balwadis).

“Give a Child a Choice”

‘Tribal’ is a generic term generally applied to people living on the fringes of Indian society in remote parts of the country making a precarious living as ‘hunter gatherers’.

Girl with fish and blackboardAbout 6% of the overall population of India falls into this category while, in Tamil Nadu and Kerala (the areas we visit) it is thought that about 1% of the population are classed as tribals. Tribal people are usually regarded as being outside the caste system, that is beneath the underclass, ‘untouchables’.

Find out more about the Tribal families in Southern India and what Lincs with India are doing to help >>