Maithri Education & Charitable Trust
As a child, he was deprived of education and other facilities due to his immobility. But now, Maithri, a charitable trust focusing on the education of rural poor children, is run by this remarkable man: Sridhar, a polio victim. This dynamic man has achieved from his wheel chair far more than any average person. With the urge in him to help those of his kind, to give them the education he was deprived of, Shridhar and a few friends started Maithri Educational & Charitable Trust.
Formed in the year 1991, the objective of the Trust is to provide educational assistance to meritorious poor students, who would otherwise be forced into child labour. The beneficiaries are academically good students from poor families. So far, more than 250 have benefited through Maithri, 10 of whom are Engineers, well settled in the US & the Middle East.
Seen on the right is Banu, who was recently sponsored for a cornea replacement surgery, receiving the wheelchair from R.SHRIDHAR (left), Founder of Maithri.
Sridhar says: "Education is a liberating force & it's also a
democratizing force cutting across the barriers of caste, creed & class, smoothing inequalities imposed by birth & other circumstances"
The major funding for education and other projects as
listed below comes from Mr. Sridhar's earnings as an accomplished
Astrologer. The rest is covered by individual donations.
HCI has been funding the education of 20
to 25 children since 2002. All projects are
offered free of cost to the beneficiaries.
Current Activities
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School & Medical:
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| Maithri maintains a free audio cassette library that contains the University Syllabus from various Universities Of Tamilnadu India. This library is maintained specially for the visually impaired students. |
| Maithri also rehabilitates victims of natural calamities like earthquake, cyclones etc. They rush their volunteers for the relief operations with groceries, medicines, Clothes, utensils etc to be distributed to the hapless victims. Volunteers return only after life is restored to normalcy. |
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OTHER PROJECTS
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NO.OF BENEFICIARIES SO FAR
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| Computer center | 100 |
| Tailoring institute | 300 |
| Providing aids &appliances to disabled, hearing impaired, blind etc | 300 |
| Health camps | 1000 |
| Cataract surgeries | 100 |
MAITHRI'S VISION
"The salient feature of our future project includes setting up a model school for the poor & the disabled. Apart from providing a high standard of education, we intend
on providing an infrastructure without architectural barriers for the handicapped as well as a well connected transport facility & integrate the disabled into the mainstream life right from start."
| Calliper | Rs.1000.00 (Canadian $ 33) |
| Hearing aid | Rs.800.00 ($ 27) |
| Wheel chair | Rs.1800.00 ($ 60) |
| Hand cycle | Rs.2000.00 ($ 67) |
| Spectacles | Rs.500.00 ($ 17) |
| Tailoring Machine -Rs. | Rs.3,600.00 ($ 120) |
You can also donate in kind in the form of Clothes, Note books, Medicines, Braille Books, Braille Typewriter, Braille Slates etc.
Maithri educational & charitable trust
6/2, Nathamuni Street,
T.Nagar, Chennai - 600 017.
INDIA
PH: 91 - 044 - 825 5866
E-MAIL: rsridhar@vsnl.com
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