With the “Unlock” measures just announced Sarita is finally scheduling trips to Chidambaram and Chennai to stock up on sarees to resume her business of selling them to her customers from her home on a monthly instalment basis. Since the lockdown she has struggled to feed her family. photo taken in August 2020 Her husband… Read more »
Social workers at Sharana met Kanagavalli 3 years ago during an outreach in the Vanrapet Slum of Pondicherry. photo taken in August 2020 At the time she had three small children,
Albert Rani married when she was barely a teen. Today she is 29 years old and has three children. Five years back, in order to supplement the family income, she used to sell milk packets and yoghurt she used to set in small glasses.
Children’s Food and Nutrition remains a major concern in several communities Sharana works in. Before Covid-19, while most children used to have at least one meal at Sharana every day, the younger children used to have two meals and a snack at our centre. To address the lack of Food and Nutrition of families we… Read more »
Sharana held a five-day “Women’s Mental Health Awareness Campaign: Towards a Sound Mind” for our Women Social Entrepreneurs from the 19th to the 25th of August. This was Sharana’s initiative to raise awareness about the Mental Health of women and support the same.
Sumati has a god gifted talent. She can etch your name on a grain of Basmati Rice. photo was taken in January 2020, pre-covid A few months back
Mary wakes up at five in the morning. She wears her face mask and she goes to the Pondicherry wholesale fruit market.
Sharana’s Social Entrepreneurship Programme, has opened our eyes to the ease of life we can bring about by giving our beneficiaries a small loan to help them set up businesses. In the last two years, our interventions have meant that in some deserving households there’s more food on the table, there’s more frequent food on… Read more »
We have begun disbursement of support kits once again to 350+ families in batches of 30 a day.
Development and amélioration while preserving the core values of our culture has been and remains our central mode of intervention. Here’s to many more years of being agents of empowerment and transformation