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Bhoomika Trust Bhoomika Trust's main focus is to support the educational and livelihood needs of underprivileged individuals. In addition to operating True Gifts, the organization has been working extensively with the victims of disasters like the earthquake in Gujarat and the tsunami in South India.
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Child is a registered public charitable trust founded in May 2005 to assist in the needs of children of HIV positive parents to enable them to lead healthy and normal lives. The objective of this trust is to provide basic needs such as shelter, food, medical assistance and education. It also provides total care to destitute, homeless and orphaned children. |
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Little Drops runs a residential center for the aged destitute, the mentally challenged, as well as a school/day care center for the children in Paraniputhur, Chennai. A total of 252 elders reside at Little Drops, whose daily activities include meals, occupational therapy, as well as walking and gardening. The 43 mentally challenged residents participate in tending to pets, making handicrafts, and dancing. The organization has also organized a vocational rehabilitation center with a tailoring unit for women and a carpentry unit for school dropouts. |
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Jeevan Blood Bank Jeevan Blood Bank and Research Centre is a community blood bank situated in Chennai that works with a vision of providing, on demand, safe blood and blood components to the community. Over the past ten years, the organization has collected over 50,000 blood donations and made available more than 82,000 units of safe blood and blood components to the community. They are known for their use of appropriate and current technologies and providing services in accordance to international standards. |
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Mahesh Memorial Trust started in November, 2002, focuses on cancer relief, creating awareness about cancer, as well as providing financial aid to economically challenged patients. The Trust was started in honor of Mahesh Mahadevan, the respected composer and music director who battled cancer for 13 years. |
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Nalamdana is a non-profit organization that uses creative, innovative, and entertaining behavior change methods with community participation, to enable people to make informed decisions about their health. They use innovative communication methods to provide knowledge about health to the illiterate. Response-driven participatory street theatre, interactive games and puzzles, audio and videocassettes, telefilms, small group workshops, television serials - Nalamdana explores the full range of communicative possibilities to reach out to people. Topics addressed include alcoholism, cancer prevention, personal health, hygiene, suicide prevention, clean water, HIV/AIDS, prevention, and maternal and child health. |
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Nethrodaya is a public charitable trust set up to improve the lives of the visually challenged. Nethrodaya runs a user-friendly hostel for visually impaired college students. The hostel is equipped with reading rooms and a library.It aims to be a nurturing environment where deserving college students can fulfil their academic as well as their professional aspirations. Nethrodaya tries to provide a transit home so that members become self sufficient and independent and integrate themselves into mainstream careers. |
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PCVC PCVC is a non-governmental organization that provides resources and counselling for women who are survivors of domestic violence in Chennai. PCVC, founded and registered in 2001, was started as a response to Chennai’s noticeable absence of support agencies for women who are survivors of domestic abuse. PCVC’s goal is to provide both emotional and practical support structures for women in abusive family situations, and to facilitate a process through which they can develop self-empowerment and material independence. From initially offering victim assistance through networking and referrals, PCVC has broadened its work to include crisis management, advocacy, and resource management for survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse, as well as community outreach on all forms of violence against women. |
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RASA RASA is a centre for Theatre Arts & special needs. RASA caters to the developmental needs of 300 children. RASA, special school, has for 17 years, worked with individuals with developmental disorders, using Theater Arts as a medium of learning. |
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Sanctuary is an emotional support group for cancer-affected families. Started in 1990, the organization provides 2 volunteers at all times at the Cancer Insitute in Chennai. In addition to providing counseling services to cancer patients and their families, the organization also conducts workshops for children in activities including painting and music, while also supporting major celebrations such as Deepavali and New Years at the Cancer Insititute. |
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Sri Arunodayam runs a home for mentally challenged and spastic destitute children. The center has psychiatrists, physiotherapists and a dietician to assist the children in achieving a systematic improvement both physically and mentally. The children are also kept engaged in play and educational activities. They also enjoy outdoor entertainment at theme parks and recreation centres. The Home has the basic infrastructure for physiotherapy.There are about sixty children aged between four and fifteen. They require round-the-clock assistance in their day-to-day activities. |
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Tanker Foundation aims to detect, prevent and raise awareness on kidney ailments and to provide quality, affordable treatment to underprivileged people. TANKER beneficiaries are people with kidney problems and do not have the wherewithal to seek medical attention. Under their "Sponsor a dialysis" scheme, the organization is performing 110 dialysis free every month. Other activities include fistula surgeries, screening camps, and school outreach programs. |
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The Banyan is an organization that cares for and rehabilitates homeless women with mental illness. The Banyan provides the women a safe shelter, care, medical attention, and a supportive environment to enable them to recover and to take responsibility for their lives again. The Banyan also supports the women's return to their families and communities and when this is not possible, supports the women in setting up new lives for themselves. Over the past 12 years, The Banyan has reached out to more than 1500 women and reunited around 850 women with their families all throughout India.
The Banyan's vision is to ensure that no mentally ill homeless person is left uncared and unattended for in the streets.
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