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Our Building "CENTRE FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION" is
completed. PujyaShri SWAMY DAYANANDA SARASWATHI
inaugurated the centre on May 8, 2009.
Click here for photos of the building
Click here for Inauguration Photos.
Click here for Press coverage of the Event
Click here for photos during Gita & Siddharth
Sankaran's visit to hand over funds for the building
We need sponsorships for the children, 100 of whom
will be placed in our new centre within the next few
weeks. We welcome you to take a look at some of the
children awaiting sponsorship by clicking
here
HCI's Achievements:
We have positive outcome for all the initiatives taken
in sponsorships and other projects at Amar Seva Sangam, Maithri,
Nesam & CREED.
Our Centre for
Special Education is
READY...
We gratefully acknowledge our donors and
sponsors, who made this dream a reality. Pls.
Click here to view the list. See right column for
inauguration details
We started
sponsoring disabled young men & women in 2003 for higher studies or
for Vocational training. Since 2004 61
of them have completed studies/ training and have found gainful
employment.
CLICK here to view
details.
(Click thru Success stories)
Currently
our sponsorship stands at 78 children at Amar Seva Sangam, 46
children at Maithri & 4 at Nesam. Visit....
http://www.handicareintl.org/help/adopt.htm
to
see the list of sponsored children at these organizations
We started sponsoring very young children afflicted with
disabilities in the year 1992. It takes approximately 12 to 15 years
for each child to pass thru stages of rehab, schooling and life
skills training until the child is either discharged or promoted to
higher studies. You will be happy to note that in the past 17 years
HCI has helped rehabilitate and discharge 20 children back to their
communities or for higher education. All of them are employed or
have started their own small scale business.
Those of you who remember Mohamed Ali, for whose higher education as
an artiste, we enacted his story in 2004 fundraiser, will be happy
to hear that he has his won art studio “LIMRAA” in Tenkasi.
There are
several such heart warming stories.
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We are proud again!! that Amar
Seva Sangam has been selected as the Best Organization for
National Award -2008 by National Trust, Ministry of Social
Justice & Empowerment, Government of India. This award was
presented by the Honourable Minister of Social Justice and
Empowerment, at New Delhi on 12th September 2008.
Honourable Minister
Meera Kumar, presenting award to Sankara Raman`
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Amar Seva Sangam has won the 12th
Mahaveer Award for Community and Social Services.
Since 1995, Bhagwan Mahaveer Foundation, has been giving
Awards every year under three categories for (i) Non-Violence
ii) Education and Medicine and (iii) Community and
Social Service on an all India basis. The current award
to Amar Seva Sangam was presented by Her Excellency President
of India Smt.Pratiba Patil at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi on
19th May 2008, to the secretary
Mr. S Sankara Raman
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Adopt-a-Village Project Completed |
Aug 2007
HCI is proud to announce that the reconstruction of the
villiage Thonithurai is now complete.
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CNN Hero-S. Ramakrishnan | Dec 2007
President of Amar Seva Sangam has been selected as one of
the 3 finalists as a "CNN HERO" in the "Medical Marvel"
category.
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Sankara Raman, | Nov 2007
Honorary Secretary of
Amar Seva Sangam wins the much coveted Ashoka Fellowship
for 2007 in the field of "Human Rights."
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THANK YOU !!!
Handi-Care Intl. wishes to thank everyone of you for the
support you have shown and you will be pleased to note
that HCI has raised over $60,000 during this
campaign that began in Mar. 2009. This will enable us to
continue to sponsor the higher education / Vocational
training of 25 to 30 disabled youth at Amar Seva Sangam &
continue the sponsorship of 45 children at Maithri. 12
children with special needs are also being sponsored as
per the direction of donors.
We thank all the sponsors, advertisers, donors and
everyone who bought the tickets and spent the evening with
us.
Handi-Care Intl. expresses its heart felt gratitude to "Sri
Sanskriti Dance Academy" for a wonderful performance
and for their commitment to the cause, leading up to the
show. Special thanks to Prabha Raghavan, the
Director of the academy, Sowmya Kishore, who was
the MC that evening. Sowmya was a marvelous MC who had the
grip on everything. HCI thanks all the 80 children who
performed for Rangoli and all their parents. Special
thanks to the coordinators, volunteers and people who
worked behind the stage and the ushers who held the crowd
in check and did a super job.
Special thanks to Rama Subramaniam whose beautiful
Ganesa paintings were sold quickly. Beautiful rustic
paintings by Mohamed Ali – whose education in the
arts college was sponsored by us- were sold very
fast. Thanks to Dr. Lalitha Shankar, who managed to
find time to run a stall to sell the book she authored.
She donated the proceeds of all the books she has sold so
far to HCI and with that a child has been sponsored in her
name. Special thanks to Rubicon for donating the
juice boxes, Sultana of Samosas for the unique, one
of a kind Samosas, all the ladies who worked
tirelessly to make the Laddus & the Murukkus for
our snack packs. Thanks to Mr. Naveen Seth for the
invigorating coffee. We thank Mr. Ramanathan (Dadu)
for donating the proceeds of the music CD sales.
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Dec 2008 - Sulo
Krishnamurthy (President), Latha Sukumar (advisory
member), Sukumar M, Girija & V. S Ananth, Rekha & Mr.
Lakhani (vol. Bimal's parents) visit Amar Seva Sangam.
This was a very significant event, closing a fantastic
year for HCI. Each one of them visited ASSA drawn by the
smiling faces of children they have been supporting for
many years. For a sample of the verbal expression of
their impression,
read
Latha's words....
Click for photos...
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January
2009 - President Sulo Krishnamurthy visits our Tsunami
project site at Thonithurai, Cuddalore Dist., Tamil Nadu.
The villagers
are happy in their new homes and thank HCI immensely for
giving them a new life.
Click here for photos Post Tsunami Reconstruction | Aug 2007
HCI is proud to announce that the reconstruction of the villiage Thonithurai is now complete. Please click here for more details.
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Book release by Dr. Lalitha Shankar!!
Here is an excellent opportunity to read
a great book written by one of our well known community
member!!!
RELENTLESS BRUSHSTROKES is a great memoir of
Lalitha's father and the proceeds from this book
will go towards sponsoring our mentally challenged
children
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- 2008 sponsor of the year is Mitesh Parikh. Mr. Parikh and his wife have proved their philanthropic disposition by sponsoring
7 children with mental and physical disabilities
through Handicare International. One of his sponsored children,
MUTHUMARI (shown to the right), is 16 years old and suffers from severe mental retardation. Please click
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Want to see what your dontations have achieved? Click on a photo below to read that child's success story.
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