What can you do to help?

Improving the life of many people is in your hands.

Your support is essential. Join this transformation process led by the Vicente Ferrer Foundation. Help collaborate and take part in change. Tucai will collaborate with the Vicente Ferrer Foundation through two types of agreements.

Firstly, the company is making a voluntary donation for the construction of a 53,000m3 reservoir in the B.K. Samudram region.

The construction project for the Pacharumekalapalli reservoir is at the centre of our 50th Anniversary celebration. The initiative is intended to support a water-related humanitarian project and to help a population in dire need of assistance. It's keeping with Vicente Ferrer's philosophy of equipping all peoples with their own resources to develop and live free, independent and prosperous lives.

Secondly, Tucai will collaborate by acting as an intermediary between the Foundation and donors from among its employees, clients and suppliers to carry out an additional project.

We hope that the money collected will allow the Vicente Ferrer Foundation to finance one of the projects described below. If together we reach our goal, we will keep you informed on the progress of this project on Tucai's corporate website: www.tucai.com

BUILDING OF GENERAL HOUSING
The plan is to build housing developments for especially needy families. These families, with an average of five members each, are forced to live in adobe huts, unsuitable for the high temperatures in the region and easily destroyed by monsoon rains.

GENERAL HOUSING
1 home: from €1,775
2 homes: from €3,550
6 homes: from €10,650
10 homes: from €17,750



BUILDING OF ADAPTED HOUSING
The aim of this project is to build housing adapted to the needs of persons with disabilities who belong to the Dalit group and the most disadvantaged castes.

ADAPTED HOUSING
1 home: 1.975€
6 homes: 11.850€
10 homes: 19.750€



 
ACCESS TO EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
This project aims to ensure that children with disabilities in the Anantapur district have access to quality education by providing classrooms that are adapted to their needs, a place to live during the school year and quality training by qualified educational and support staff.

ACCESS TO EDUCATION
4 pupils: from €2,200
8 pupils: from €4,400
12 pupils: from €6,600


 
TRAINING OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS
This consists of training health care workers and equipping them with first aid kits, basic medication and instruments to attend to basic health needs in rural communities. This rural health network is intended to ensure access to health care for all people living in the district.

HEALTH CAREWORKERS
20 workers from €2,200
50 workers from €5,500
100 workers 11.000€




BUILDING SCHOOLS
The main objective of building schools is to provide access to education, which is understood as the cornerstone of community development.


BUILDING SCHOOLS
1 school: from €9,888

Tucai gets involved

TUCAI makes a commitment to a water-related humanitarian project: the construction of a Reservoir with a capacity of 53,000m3 in the town of Pacharumekalapalli, in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, to fight against desertification. At the same time, the plan is to sensitise others, causing them to reflect on the consequences of poor water infrastructures and to foster the spirit of cooperation amongst employees, clients and suppliers to build a future for these populations.

The Vicente Ferrer Foundation (VFF) is a development NGO committed to the process of transforming one of the poorest and neediest regions in India. It was created in India in 1969 with the aim of finding solutions to the serious problems faced by the rural community of Anantapur.

A team of more than 2,400 people (of whom 99% are natives of Anantapur) are implementing the development programme the organisation is carrying out - the most innovative in the history of India - to meet the needs of 3,110 towns, benefiting nearly three million people. Until recently in the district of Anantapur, the infrastructures for water storage were deficient and a large percentage of the water was wasted. Women in rural India were forced to make as many as six trips a day, carrying up to 15 kg of clean water on their heads for their homes. From a very young age, their dependence on water prevented them from accessing education and posed serious health risks.

Today, the construction of reservoirs makes it possible to store water during the rainy season, during which time torrential monsoon rains fall and filter into the subsoil without ever evaporating. Crops improve, as they receive more underground water. This filtered water, which is exposed to less pollution, ends up in the aquifers and nearby wells that the farmers rely on for personal use.

Lorenzo Piera, Managing Director of the Tucai Group:

In these times of crisis, celebrating an anniversary with commemorative events and parties does not live up to the values established by the founders of this company, Misters Grau, Arnó and Tuá.
The success of our group stems from one of our core principles: the value of responsibility. It has always guided our decisions. That's why, on our 50th anniversary, we have decided to invest in helping others.

Construction of a dam in the B.K. SAMUDRAM region, near TADIPATRI in the state of ANDHRA PRADESH:
• Objective: Availability of water resources
• Reservoir capacity: 53,000 m3
• Location: Town of Pacharumekalapalli
• Local stream: Pedda Vanka
• Irrigation of 167 acres (67 ha)
• Population benefited:
- 20 families of farmers
- 174 families in town (indirectly)

50th Anniversary Tucai

TUCAI celebrates 5o years since its foundation in 1963 and gears up to fight against desertification with a water-related humanitarian Project.  

Solidarity is one of the values of TUCAI Corporate Culture. In addition to the purely financial sponsorship of the Company Management, to support the construction of a reservoir, a humanitarian action was set up in last December to facilitate donations across all Group employees, Customers and Suppliers in order to provide parallel support. 
This initiative will try to improve the living conditions of the Anantapur population, especially in the field of Education and Healthcare. The program has already raised support that will help fund one parallel project.

Water is an increasingly scarce natural resource and TUCAI Management decided to pay tribute to it because it has given success to its people over the last 50 years. Raising awareness about this problem and implementing actions that can little by little help these populations have also convinced the Group employees that they cannot remain passive. Stopping the devastating desertification from which some of the districts in Andra Pradesh suffer and convert these areas into cultivatable land in order for people to support themselves is one of the objectives of the Vicente Ferrer Foundation. 
 The average annual rainfall in the district of Anantapur is practically half of that in the rest of the state of Andhra Pradesh. Anantapur´s proximity to the equator and its high temperatures have made the area in which the VFF.
 Rural Development Trust works a semi-arid zone, the second driest in all of India.
In a district where 75% of the population depends on agriculture, droughts have a devastating impact among the poorest levels of society. 

 Thus, in 1969, the Foundation implemented a long-term environmental development plan which includes fundamental approaches to ensure the future of the region’s families.
In this context, the construction of a reservoir in B.K. Samudram region supported by TUCAI has already begun. It can hold 53,000 m³ of rainwater and it is located at a very short distance of the village of Pacharumekalapalli. Improving agricultural productivity is crucial and our efforts will increase the amount of land under cultivation and the crop harvests to two per year.
 It will help women who often take several trips every day to gather and transport water on their heads. It is a big handicap for them as they are removed from being able to better care of their children and get a proper education.