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 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.
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”
You may remember the story of a young mother from the village of Anjeneya who was killed by tuberculosis (TB) back in 2019.
Her widowed husband, with their two children, returned to his native village to live with his elderly parents, moving away from our educational and community activities.
It was only when the Government began free food distribution in March and April that we realised how many people – especially Gypsies and tribal people – do not have their family ration smart cards yet.
Continue reading “No smart cards, no food!”
A tailoring machine has been delivered yesterday in one of the backward areas where the Association works, a village called Periyar Nagar (Manampathy, Thiruporur block).
Continue reading “Tailoring machine donated in Periyar Nagar”
During a disable camp run on February 5th in the Sembakkam Panchayat we came to know about Alamelu, a 29 years old woman blind by birth.
Continue reading “Monthly individual support granted to blind woman”