Life savers.

Handicapped Gypsy boy, not by birth but some customer that didn't like him pushed out of the train, as he was trying to sell him beads. Fortunately survived but was crippeld and couldn't move and bascially became a vegetable. Thats when we stepped in 

and got him tri-cycle to give him another lease of life to move around and sell stuff. A year after he passed away due to the sustaining internal injury. We also buried him

Aids no bar for aid.

Gopi one of the rag-pickers was suffering from aids lost his wife, children, job, house. Thats when we met him shared the love of God Helped him rebuild his life and house. Gopi passed away a few months later, he left behind his daughter who is now under our care in a home.

Jeevan Shalom Shelter

This is our home for the Gyspy Children, they usually beg or eat one meal a day, and don't go to school. They live a very uncivilized lifestyle. They live in tents and when it rains they live on the train station and live very pathetic life. We now have 15 of these children the live in the Jeevan Shalom shelter they have home, food, school, healthcare. Our dream is to see these once hopeless kids educated and responsible adults into the mainstream life in the society.

Helpers for Lepers!

Leprosy is considered as a dreadful disease and though curable, the permanent marks and signs they carry, keep them under scorn and disgrace. More than the disability the disdain they carry is terrible. The stigma attached to this disease imposes a heavy burden upon affected individuals and their families.

At a leprosy colony, Jeevan reaches its patients who are rejected by their families. They get very little medical help from Government sources. During our visits to them they eagerly look forward to seeing us to pour out their hearts and allow their tears to roll down. In addition to listening to them, touching and comforting them, we also provide their essential needs like rice, cotton and bed sheets for their day to day living there only other source is begging. Above all spend time with them and impart that we accept them as they are.

Daycare center!

This is our day care centre for slum children. Their parents are mainly fruit vendors on running trains, they leave them in the streets, we bring them in everyday to our daycare center, teach them hygiene, provide them free lunch, and prepare them for schooling.

Show us the way!

These are beggars and both are blind, while cooking food inside their little hut

with fire woods, thier house was partially burnt. The roof needs repair.

Street Dwellers and narikurvas [tribal people}

Street Dwellers and narikurvas [tribal people}

A group of about 100 families live by way side and railway station away from the Tambaram town, under temporary shelters made of plastics or thatched huts. Most of these families have sad stories to tell of some serious sickness like HIV-AIDS, T.B., cancers of different kind, kidney failures, and disabilities of blindness or mentally retardation. They sustain their life by begging or rag-picking. They are either runaway people or rejected by their relatives and the society. They hardly have any belongings and not fit for getting a work in the town. Jeevan reaches them and attends to some of their specific needs. A doctor joins the team to help with medication and medical guidance to access appropriate hospitals that they can afford or get free treatment. Jeevan also provides the basic needs such as rice, clothes, blankets. We also help them put small thatched roof houses alongside the railway platforms. We assist them during the death of these people as they are not allowed to be buried in the regular cemetery since they are outcasts, we bury them in the mountain and take care of expenses. Spending time and counseling them is no less service for these least people who live with desperation.