Sharana began working in Mathur village in 2008. Mathur Village is located approximately 20kms north of Pondicherry town. It is a caste-fractured and poverty-ridden village that has been left undeveloped thanks ironically to the property development boom. With agricultural lands being sold into private plots, the villagers have lost their original sources of livelihood and… Read more »
A group of 40 Volunteers from J’Oeuvre de secours aux enfants: Relief work for Children (J’OSE) arrived at Sharana for the group’s annual visit to Pondicherry, this past month. Volunteers at an orientation with Eric J’OSE is a Paris-based organization which gathers young adults with the aim of getting them involved in volunteer programs, generally… Read more »
Sharana’s Solidarity Shop was inaugurated on August 30! The shop carries recycled newspaper products, jams, cookies, a line of garments from Raga, and other items from Souffle de L’Inde — profits from the sales of which will be solely for Sharana’s benefit. As many of Sharana’s supporters and friends will know, Raga is an… Read more »
Upcoming Thursday (August 30th) we’ll open the brand new Sharana Solidarity Shop. The grand opening will take place Thursday, August 30th, 4:30 in the afternoon. Whoever is interested shall join us! We’re selling the products which are produced by our beneficiaries in our little workshop.
In this post we would like to highlight the work being done under the rubric of the “Shelter program.” The program was initiated by Kalki in 2008, and The Shelter is located on the Tindivanam road, closer to Auroville than to Pondicherry town. It is a property taken on rent, which has separate facilities… Read more »
We at Sharana are happy to announce the admission of our first batch of 8 students to the Since this past April, Sharana social workers have been canvassing the villages surrounding Pondicherry in an awareness-building campaign. Students and volunteers participating in Sharana’s summer camp 2012 also took time to redouble our efforts to publicize… Read more »
We are proud and excited to announce that one of Sharana’s first beneficiaries, D. Aravind Kumar, has just been accepted to Medical College! Aravind is the son of Mani Meghalai, who works with Sharana’s Recycled Newspaper Products Unit, and Devakumar, who works as a laborer with a local company (pictured above in the first photo; the… Read more »
In early February 2012, Sharana agreed to a merger with another local NGO with similar goals and projects, Kalki Welfare Society. Here we provide you with a background to Kalki, and a synopsis of how the merger integrates with Sharana’s existing projects. Kalki Welfare elfare Society was a non-profit organization established in June 2008, with… Read more »
We are delighted to launch Sharana’s new website! We hope you will stay and explore the site, which now has pages devoted to Sharana’s history, detailed documentation on each of Sharana’s programs, plus pages for volunteers, donors, and more. We thank all those who have invested their time and effort to make this launch happen,… Read more »