The new academic year has started, and with it, our after-school programs are back in full swing!
The Malar Trust India team recently visited all our centres to meet with students and teachers, and as always, to reaffirm our shared belief: education is the most powerful tool to break the cycle of poverty.
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Rajalakshmi is a woman in her early forties, living alone and coping with some mental health challenges. She lives in the village of Amoor and she is a regular guest at the Malar Trust community kitchen since the day we opened it — a warm meal, a smile, a bit of company.
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We are pleased to share a news that marks a major milestone for the community of Poonjeri: the installation of a new water purification system – a vital intervention to improve the quality of life for the families living there.
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Sreebha is a girl who lives in a hut with her mentally disabled father, her mother and her younger sister who is still studying; when we met her, only her mother had a simple job and the family economic situation was not good.
Since 2020, thanks to Malar Trust scholarship program, she has been able to attend a college professional course as dialysis technician.
She graduated in 2023.
A solar light was donated to 48 families belonging to some of the tribal villages where Malar Trust India operates.
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Malar Trust has made a donation to the day center for disabled children run by Sirugaveripakkam Primary School, Kancheepuram Union.
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MTI completes and donates a house to a widow with two children
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Many abandoned elderly people live in the village of Amoor, especially single women, elderly widows whose children have moved elsewhere, looking for better job opportunities.
Continue reading “Malar Trust inaugurates a canteen for the elderly in Amoor”Shanthi is a 42-year-old woman living with the long-term effects of polio. She lost the use of her legs when she was just four years old. Never married and with no family to care for her, Shanthi has faced life’s challenges alone with remarkable strength.
Until a few years ago, she lived with her mother. But following a serious misunderstanding, Shanthi was forced to leave home. With nowhere else to go, she took shelter in a cattle shed, where she lived for nearly a year, surviving on a disability pension of just ₹1,000 per month.
This is the short story of Meera 55 years old to whom we have just granted a monthly aid of 1.500rs.
Her husband Radhakrishnan, 65 – but only 56 on the documents due to a bureaucratic error which makes him ineligible for old age pension – is deaf and visually impaired but has no disability benefit because no one has ever helped him get it.
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