“ 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
The Seeds of Change awareness project in St.Anthony Govt aided high school started in August 2015 as a weekly activity for a group of 28 children between ages 9 and 12. The first topic for awareness was waste management. The principal was apprehensive
It was a pleasure to once again have Mr. Aarmugam Raju (a.k.a Ara) along with his colleague Mr Basha, a renowned psychologist- with us earlier this March. They held an interactive
A big thank you to Mrs Sandhya Jaichandren from Sanskriya foundation in Chennai; for her generous donation of books towards Sharana’s programs. The stories in these books
It was a pleasure to have Gwenaël Bourboulon and Judith Toulis, president and treasurer of Sharana France with us at Sharana for a week earlier this March. They spent time with the respective social workers
Vocational Training Center for Carpenters: The video of the Sharana VTC program has been produced by two interns by Symbiosis, Pune – Aditya and Shubham. Thank you!