ABOUT US...
   


*** UDAVUM KARANGAL (HELPING HANDS) is a registered non-governmental non-religious and non-profit social service organization, established in 1983., with sole objective of serving people in distress who are orphans & destitutes. 


*** UDAVUM KARANGAL's humble beginnings trace back to 1983, when Vidyakar began his work in a voluntary counseling and guidance centre, as a professional social worker, in the slums of N.S.K. Nagar, Chennai. A, puny, dehydrated, wailing baby boy was brought by a rickshaw puller, who had discovered it, abandoned in a cinema hall, after a night show. Since then there has been no looking back ,neither for Vidyakar nor for UDAVUM KARANGAL.


*** UDAVUM KARANGAL extends help & succour and a new  lease of life to nearly 1800 unfortunate persons from new born babies, abandoned or orphaned to old dying destitutes. The center provides individualized services, treatment, care, rehabilitation and education to those in distress. 

*** After 18 long years, the institution has grown from strength to strength and it now houses and cares for 1800 residents. As of June 2001 , the roll of its extended family includes the following :-

Infants & Tinytots 257
Children 268
Mentally Retarded   70
Women in Distress   98
Mentally Sick 707
Dying Destitutes 192
HIV +ve   62
Spastic Children   45
Physically disabled   48
Volunteers   55



***  The journey, for VIDYAKAR , and for his VOLUNTEERS , however, has been very arduous. At times almost unbearable but always immensely satisfying. Like a huge and sturdy Banyan tree, the family at UDAVUM KARANGAL has grown around the qualities of dedication, compassion. Each of the homes for the destitutes was started out of sheer necessity and each began in a small way with just a few residents. Now UDAVUM KARANGAL's reach extends across 5 centres viz; Tiruverkadu, Maduravoyal,Velappanchavadi,Teynampet & Ambattur with one center at Coimbatore.

***  A constant and encouraging presence has been the increasing number of well-wishers whose financial, material and emotional support have been UDAVUM KARANGAL's major sustenance.

*** Your help and support can go a long way in sustaining its services. It can come through various endowment of UDAVUM KARANGAL.

 

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