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.
Continue reading “Meera Individual help”A free Tailoring Course for tribal women has just finished in Kunnapattu village.
The course began last July: an expected duration of six months – 5 days a week for two or three hours a day – 7 women attending.
Continue reading “Tailoring course for Kunnapattu women”A big grinder worth 25.000 rupees has been recently donated to a disabled woman from Puliyambakkam village.
Mahalakshmi is a woman aged 45 with a disability of 60%. Married with an alcoholic, she has two children attending 6th and 7th grade at public school in Puliyambakkam village.
Continue reading “Grinder donated to disabled woman”A sewing machine was donated to a family in Manamathi.
Plates and glasses purchased for the MGR Nagar public kindergarten
Looking after two daughters and abandoned by her husband many years ago, Dhanushiya suffers from a serious chronic illness. With a donation od 10.000 rupees MTI helped the woman start her own business.
Continue reading “Donation to start a business”
Kunnapattu is a village 6 or 7 km away from Mamallapuram.
The tribal community that we began to follow at the end of last year is made up of about 50 families who have lived in the village in a fairly stable way for many years now.
Continue reading “New Children Care Centre opened in Kunnapattu tribal community”
A new Tuition Center was opened last January in MGR Nagar, an area of Poonjeri largely inhabited by gypsies and tribals.
Continue reading “New Tuition Center opened in Poonjeri MGR Nagar”Deepa Priya is a young woman of about twenty-five, suffering from muscular dystrophy, that we have been helping for more than two years with a small monthly subsidy.
A new project has just started in the ST community of Kuyil Kuppam (Peryar Nagar): extra English lessons for a selected bunch of students.
