HEALTH & SOCIAL SUPPORT

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The Foundation extended its financial support to the December 2004 Tsunami afflicted families in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, by way of purchasing and distributing relief materials such as Candles, Torch Lights, Batteries, Blankets, Tamarind, Dal, Cooking vessels, Feeding bottles, Milk powder, Dhothis, Lungies, Sarees, Clothes for children and also medicines.

For the last seven years, aged couples residing in Bhandavya Nagar, Vyalikaval, with no support or capability of earning, received financial support from the Trust as monthly pension till their death.

In addition, financial support has been extended to the following:

  • Plantation workers at Mudigere, Chikkamagalur District, Karnataka who are below the poverty line.
  • Underprivileged persons who are critically ill, undergone cataract operations and also for major operations like bye-pass surgery, etc.
  • Vimochana – a forum for women’s rights - for upliftment of distressed women to start a mechanic shop and have a means of generating income for themselves.
  • Wheelchairs India Foundation for gifting wheelchairs to the poorest of the poor with serious physical handicap.
Rama Krishnan