The Seeds of Change program is in collaboration with 5 schools in and around Pondicherry where weekly sessions are conducted. After a year of regular activities, a group of

Kanchana’s father Sekar died of a heart attack 5 years ago. He had been Sharana’s driver, a wonderful and helpful person- part of Sharana’s family for over 10 years before his sudden demise. Kanchana’s mother works as a tailor in a local NGO – in order to support the family. Kanchana, the oldest of the… Read more »

It was a fun morning last week when a small team from Sharana distributed notebooks to the 91 children of the Aranganur government primary school- part of our Collective Sponsorship program in Sharana. The children between ages 4-10 years old were overjoyed to have visitors and their laughter rang through every corner of the old… Read more »

Vignesh, lovingly called “Pondy-Vicky” by all the VTC classmates will soon complete his one year training in the Sharana carpentry training program. He lives in a small hut in a tiny fishermen village, Manalmedu, near the Pondicherry lighthouse. Vignesh’s family consists of his mother, his paternal