Tomorrow we will complete our second week of the 2016 summer camps. Various activities were conducted including yoga, dance, art therapy, craft-work, pottery, awareness sessions by CCRD-Chennai and educators from our Seeds of Change program, a special outing to the swimming pool/planetarium, and delicious food! This year we have opened the residential summer camps to

“ I hope you realize your good fortune” Sasi tells the children picked up from the streets every morning to spend the day in a protected environment under the Gayatri House programme for street children at Sharana. Born in the streets,

Valérie Fournet Houdaille, one of our dear volunteers from France, came to Sharana to help raising news funds for the Seeds of Change program. She visited the places where the project is taking place and interacted with the communities. Her first success has been to convince

Mary is 30 years old. After her husband died a few years ago, she started living with her two children (who access the Gayatri House and are beneficiaries of the Mission Bambini sponsorship program) on the street opposite the Pondicherry General Hospital. One night she noticed two girls walking

Starting this week, we will chronicle in this page stories from Sharana. Each story featured will include a potential life changing intervention by Sharana. She was a woman, a widow, a mother abandoned by her son. These are the tough circumstances

Over 700 students studying in various schools in and around Pondicherry through several of the Sharana programs, are currently undergoing their exams. The social workers are engaged in supporting