In 2011 Malar Trust India started, on an experimental basis, a first tailoring school for a small Irula community near Poonjeri with the purpose of helping the women to develop a craft useful for themselves and their families.
This first center was followed by a second one for disabled women in Tiruppurur and by a third opened for the Irula community near the village of Peryar Nagar.
The courses offer two hours of daily lessons of embroidery and sewing by hand or machine.