For a few hours on the 11th of February, our resourse centre in the village of Angalakuppam, turned into an Eye Hospital. We held an Eye Camp for the members of Angalakuppam and six other surrounding villages. Special attention was given in this camp, for patients above 40 years of age. Already aware of the… Read more »
We are proud to share with you, that we have completed one successful year of the Awarenes project through Sports and Games with Chemins d’Enfances with the help of the pedagogy from Sports Sans Frontieres (now Pl4i International). To play, to have fun and yet learn at the same time, is our common aim.
On Saturday the 10th of January, Sharana participated in the “Tsunamika Turns Ten” event in Bharat Nivas, Auroville to show solidarity towards the beautiful concept of Tsunamika which gave hope and a new life to many women who had lost everything in that one colossal wave! From morning till night Bharat Nivas was a site… Read more »
Manuel, social worker with us at Sharana participated in a two-week International workshop titled ‘People’s Puppet Project (PPP)’ in Pondicherry from the 15th to 28th December 2014. This was followed by public performances on 26th and 27th December 2014 at prominent, public locations around Pondicherry’s Boulevard Town.
Sharana’s Day Care Centre is located in Pondicherry town, and reaches out to the most vulnerable children from the street and slums of Pondicherry. These children have no stable homes, and are from families struggling themselves with substance abuse, violence, and poverty. At the centre children are given a bath, clean clothes and breakfast, lunch… Read more »
Last month we were delighted to have Mr. Bruno de Kerhor, a dear old friend of Sharana India and an active member of Sharana France with us. He helped us and accompanied us in many of our projects, distributing uniforms in Angalakuppam, distributing certificates to our VTC children,
Our Vocational Training program through Carpentry (for rural dropouts and youth in Aranganur and surrounding villages) is currently in its third successful year. The 10 boys’ daily routine comprises of a rigorous theory class of two hours and an equally focused practical class of five hours. At the end of the year they are apprentices who are… Read more »
This November a group of 15 young enthusiastic volunteers from MUWCI (Mahindra United World College India) Pune worked with us at Sharana. MUWCI is an International Baccalaureate (IB) pre-university college, located 40 km west of Pune in Maharashtra, It is one of the 14 United World Colleges. MUWCI has a strength of about 250 students… Read more »
We celebrated Children’s day in various programs of Sharana. The “evening homework help centre” children did a beautiful cultural program following which we distributed notebooks, pens and shared a cake. They danced, sang songs, read out poems, and gave speeches in Tamil and English on Nehru, all without the teacher’s help. Bravo children! The Angalakuppam creche… Read more »
Sharana is always seeking out innovative ways to extend its support for women’s education. Twice a year, for three months, we accept interns pursuing their Bachelors in Social work, from Kasthurba College for Women, Villianur. The young women work with us on various programs during their internship.