We have 20 children in the shelter program. These are children who are extremely vulnerable and for various reasons cannot go back to the street. We would like to keep them under our care until we have a strong plan to re-integrate them back with their families. However, this year, an increase of 30% in… Read more »
Amala completed her higher education as part of Sharana’s Sponsorship Program in 2011. Immediately after her course, she got a lovely job in Cognizant, Chennai. She came to meet us on this Ayudha Puja, with some lovely news. She wanted to pay 1000 rupees every month, to help a child pursue his/her studies… Read more »
Schools have re-opened and at Sharana we have re-started our material distribution activities (part of the sponsorship program). Along with giving material to our individually sponsored children, we also give material to our collective sponsorship programs. At Mathur, we have adopted an entire school and this year 105 children are going to this school from… Read more »
Exam results were out earlier in June, and Sharana’s sponsored students are among the toppers! Join us in congratulating Maheswari, Ajith Kumar, and Saranya on their outstanding accomplishments. Here are their stories, as narrated by Ravi Anand Subramanium, who is lead social worker on the Sponsorship team.
For more than a year now, KelOptic–a company specializing in online sales of optical lenses, founded by 2 business school graduates, Quentin and Charles who know Sharana well–has been offering free glasses for disadvantaged children. For every purchase over 50 € made via the KelOptic website, the company sends a new frame to Sharana.
This week we bid farewell to two dear friends, Eric and Nathalie Ajorque.
This week at Sharana, the summer camp kicked off with almost 160 children enrolled. Amala sent this photo last night, with the comment that “the children make Sharana”–which we can read in more ways than one: We also had a visit from Nicolas Houles, a long-time friend and dedicated supporter, accompanied by another friend, Vincent… Read more »
The sponsorship program social workers organized a meeting with parents of sponsored children, to plan logistics for the upcoming summer camp, as well as for the coming academic year.
Twenty students met with Vetri, John Peter, Ravi Anand (all Sharana social workers) and Mrs. Vijayalakshmi (a volunteer) at Sharana’s office on March 16 for nearly three hours, in order to discuss prospects for higher education.
The teachers from Sharana’s Early Childhood Programs, which includes a creche for babies and day care activities for older children, took our kids for a visit to the park this past week. Three staff members and one volunteer accompanied 30 children to Pondicherry’s Botanical Gardens (the very ones made all the more famous in the… Read more »