F.a: Promoting ecological-social-economic development rights of traditional communities to sustain their livelihoods by creating eco village models YNEEW's long-term goal is to create an empowered traditional Community, capable accessing means, measures, methods, skills and processes through its wholesome participation and attaining fullness of life and self- efficiency in a sustainable manner. Immedi
ate short-term objectives: To ensure participation, development and economic rights of traditional communities towards obtaining their control over their livelihoods, lands, resources, culture, dignity, integrity, health and territory; To enable community 
walk back to traditional ways of building, producing, sharing, consuming, protecting, mentoring and sustaining livelihood that is in accordance with nature’s survival; To defend, protect, conserve and sustain the integrity traditional livelihood process 
by preventing, suspending and avoiding external influences. Project activities: Awareness and education for Trend Setting Traditional Communities; Theme Based Integrated intensive training; Creating and maintaining Eco village models, Documentation of Eco 
cluster's natural and human resources; Formation of Eco Village Facilitation Forum [SFF] and Monthly meets; Creation and Maintenance of Eco village; Strengthening Net-HHE’s social-economic existence; Continuation of community based academic research; and
 Campaign, Advocacy, Seminar and workshops. Target groups: About 3500 families in the eco village cluster area of 8 hamlets; About 400 small and marginal famers in the process of food production, Nursery raising, seed banking; About 400 children and youth;
 and About 500 families directly through ECO village related activities. YNEEW is an innovative organization, which builds its work on local self-sustaining development with the participation of youth. It has been developing eco village models among other 
grassroots activities in Dindigul district. www.yneew.org