In India it is the girls side bears the burden, the high expenditure on weddings. One wedding can set a bride’s father back by a decade as he struggles to repay the loan he has taken for his daughter’s wedding.

Countless families are unable to get their young daughters and sisters married. Those underprivileged families are unable to pay huge sums of money as dowry to the bridegroom at the time of the marriage and the marriage expenses, which often pushes them under heavy debt and loans.

‘If one does not spend for a wedding, they may never get a boy who has a job,’ is a common notion that surrounds an Indian family.

JKF helps arrange the marriage ceremonies of poor and orphaned girls around Tirunelveli.JKF has helped _ _ _ couples to tie the knot from November 2010 till date. An essential sum for the wedding is paid for and the married couple is provided with some basic amenities to start their livelihood.