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UDAVUM KARANGAL
 Udavum
Karangal (which in Tamil means ‘Helping Hands’) was started
in 1983 by a professional social worker Vidyakar, in the
slums of N.S.K. Nagar. Its reach now extends across 5 centres in
Chennai, with outstation services in Coimbatore, Tirupur, Pondicherry
and Mumbai. It also runs an outpatient centre for general medicine
and psychiatry in Thiruverkadu, Chennai.
Today, Udavum Karangal cares for over 1500 residents.
These residents include infants, mentally sick, dying and the destitute,
HIV positive, spastics and physically disabled persons.
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Infant Care |
Neonatal facilities for infants |
| Sishu Bhavan |
Children over a year old |
| Gokulam |
For children in the
age group 4 – 14 |
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Karunalayam |
For terminally sick
and dying destitutes |
| Shantivanam |
For destitute psychiatric
patients |
| Malarvanam |
A hospice for the
HIV infected / AIDS patients |
| Mukthi |
Home for the aged
destitutes in Tirupur |
Udavum Karangal also has a vocational training centre that imparts
training skills like tailoring, carpentry, candle and shampoo making.
Address: 460, N.S.K. Nagar, Chennai - 600 106
Phone: 621 6521, 621 6421, 621 6321
Web site: www.udavumkarangal.org
VISHRANTHI
 Vishranthi
came into existence in 1978, by the efforts of a voluntary organisation
of housewives called, The Monday Charity Club. Vishranthi’s
main aim is to provide sustenance to aged and destitute women. Starting
with one inmate in a rented house, Vishranthi now has over
100 people in its one-acre plot at Palavakkam, Chennai.
The guiding philosophy of Vishranthi is freedom of action.
The campus inmates take stints at gardening, nursing, tailoring
and cooking. It also has Malarchi, a house for girls whose
father’s whereabouts are not known. A short-stay home for elderly
women and an isolated hall for mentally disturbed women have been
constructed.
Donations in cash and kind are accepted. Donations to the Vishranthi
Charitable Trust are exempt from tax under 80 G of the Income
Tax Act , 1961.
Address: Vishranthi, 28, A.V.M. Rajeswari Gardens,
M.G.R. Salai, Palavakkam, Chennai - 600 041.
Phone: 492 5792
Donors contact:
Vishranthi Charitable Trust,
Flat no.1, Sapthagiri Apartments, # 83, T.T.K. Road, Alwarpet, Chennai
- 600 018
Phone: 499 4806, 499 6634
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