Caroline, a professional art therapist joined us in the summer of 2013 and has been keeping Sharana colourful and zesty with her creative presence since. She works with the children at our day care centre has never missed a day and has been a source of constant support and encouragement to the children three… Read more »
On the 24th of February, our Data consolidation project (MamaData) turned live. MamaData is a cloud based software, which supports Sharana’s social workers and accountants in managing information about beneficiaries and donors. The database can be accessed from internet enabled tablets on the field and eventually gives up to the minute information about all programs… Read more »
We are proud to share with you, that we have finally begun our Sports and Games project with Chemins d’Enfances, with the help of the pedagogy from Sports Sans Frontieres. To play, to have fun and yet learn at the same time, is the aim of “Sports Sans Frontieres” (Sports Without Borders). Sports and games… Read more »
This year too, we were happy to receive an intern from She integrated immediately with our teams in the projects, and starting working more in detail with our children at the day care centre.
It is that time of the year, when celebrations are always around the corner. Ayudha Puja, Diwali, just went by, and soon there will be Christmas, New Year and Pongal. This is a busy time for our sponsorship program social worker, Ravi.
Sharana’s Carpentry Vocational Training program, with a training facility complete with machinery and equipment was built in 2011-2012 in Aranganur. The first batch of 9 students (selected from an applicant pool of 22, all drawn from nearby villages) began their study in July 2012.We are proud to announce a successful completion of their course, they… Read more »
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.