In the peaceful village of Thondamanallur in Kanchipuram district lives 39-year-old Venkatesan. Six years ago, his life changed tragically. Before the accident, he worked hard every day as a daily-wage labourer and supported his family, including his mother.
One day, while returning home from work, he met with a severe road accident. The spinal injury he sustained left the lower part of his body paralyzed. Since then, he has not been able to walk or work.
MTI completes and donates a house to a widow with two children
Continue reading “A New house for Nathiya”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.
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”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.
