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Change is never easy but always possible If we are concerned with our body. Eating crappy food is not a reward, in fact it is punishment. During these Corona times, if you do not make time for your wellness you will be forced to make time for your illness. At -
My Father is in Prison. My life is always under a dark cloud. I am broken. I do not know how long I can hold on. I am losing faith. I am always blaming my father and myself for my fate. I have a dream. I feel I can make -
A mind when stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. In life we expect too much perfect from children that we cease to see children as innately wise and capable scientists. We often meet the vibrant children of Saranalayam to talk with them or to appreciate their -
Few days ago there was a sad news of some misinformed persons shooing and threatening away bats from trees. Our Nellai Nature Club felt there was a need to save the Bats species and we campaigned at three locations today,which was to launched by Corporations Commisioner Kannan. The very locations -
A Good Teacher understands the pains of a student. This is about the students of Govt Aided Middle School in Thonithurai, where the Children come from Marathoor, Thonithurai, Nochikulam and Kansapuram. The parents of all the children in this school are either subsistence farmers or daily wagers. With the onslaught -
“If today I had to choose between a weapon or a brush, I would choose the brush”-A young youth detained at the Juvenile Justice Board, Tirunelveli. I was giving a speech on “Addictions” at M. S. University when I was approached by the Superintendent of Juvenile Justice Board, Tirunelveli to -
The world may not change if you adopt a child, but for that child their world will change. Every baby discarded in the three southern districts- Tirunelveli, Tuticorin and Kanyakumari are handed over to Saranalayam, a Children’s Home and an Authorized Adoption Centre; where they are cared and nurtured for, -
JK Foundation believes in providing alternative incomes for women in Tirunelveli’s rural and urban slum belts. Too much time at their disposal is ideal for the village women to set up rumor mills at any house they assemble at. We wanted to do something to support the marginalised sections of -
Educating girls… transforming Lives Million girls are out of school and in rural areas girls receive an average of fewer than four years of education. There is a belief among rural areas that girls should stop schooling after reaching puberty. India has the highest number of child brides in Asia. -
In our years of working with Prisoners we had a regular quote told to us by inmates- I am innocent but I am being falsely framed. Having heard it several times, we got so used to it, that we hardly give any serious thought to it, in fact when an -
I was born with the right part of my face weighing down heavily; my father was facing a prison sentence for a murder. Scarred by my facial disfigurement and my father’s conviction everyone around me looked down on me. I faced discrimination and unfair treatment, especially at school hence I -
India hosts 66% of leprosy patients and has become the leprosy capital of the world, with at least 1,35,485 cases of leprosy were detected in India. A prisoner had approached us to help with the care of his mother, who was a leprosy patient and was shunned by the villagers. The mother
