• Lacking Proper food, without shelter and uncared for mentally ill people are found on the streets.
• They have been abandoned by their families due to their mental illness.

 

Mentally ill people from other districts and states are brought to kanyakumari, a pilgrimage centre, and abandoned

 

Feeding the abandoned Mentally Ill

• The mentally ill people, helpless even to beg, eat from garbage bins or go hungry. Therefore Chardep endeavors to provide tasty and nutritious food to them through this scheme
• 100 people receive food everyday through Annapoorna Yatra. Over the past 4 years around 1,50000 meals have been served.
• This Programme is funded entirely by donations from the public.
• The abandoned mentally ill are not able to maintain personal hygiene. So CHARDEP's staff and volunteers meet them on a weekly basis and provide services such as hair and nail trimming, baths clean and clothes and treatment of minor ailments.

Rehabilitation of Mentally - ill Roadside Destitute's

• An indigenously adapted approach by Mr.Manikandan well suited for rehabilitation for roadside destitute's, Which combines a compassionate approach to socialization, occupational engagement, & professional medical intervention. This approach is located in idyllic surroundings and an open field environment and provides rehabilitation through occupational participation in a range of agriculture, vegetable cultivation, dairy farming and other activities so that the institution produces what it consumes, treats the mentally ill with dignity, simultaneously preserving or building daily living skills.
• Reuniting these patients to their families who have long thought of them as lost or even dead and entrusting their care with the ones who love these patients.Educating the family, neighboring locals & elders, with organized gatherings involving hands-on question-answer sessions about mental illness and treatment.

Manolaya helps Destitute and Wandering Mentally Ill

• According to a WHO estimate published in 2001, about 22% of Indians develop one or more mental or behavioral disorders in their lifetime. 5% of these people develop severe mental disorders that totally disrupt their lives and need intensive treatment. Several socio-economic factors in India, such as the low per capita income, scarcity of mental health professionals (only 1 psychiatrist for two lakh fifty thousand people), shortage of funds for mental health care in the public healthcare system (around 1% of total funds) and the stigma associated with mental illness, result in 1 % of the mentally ill people becoming homeless and thereafter living and dying on the streets.The southernmost tip of India and is a destination for a vast number of tourists and pilgrims.
• Mentally ill persons from other parts of India arrive here by accident or are intentionally brought here and abandoned by families not able to care for them. This accounts for the higher number of mentally ill people found on the streets of district. They as well as the destitute mentally ill persons native to the district subsist on the streets on the food they find in rubbish bins or occasionally given to them by tourists or pilgrims.

Our Milestone in Kanyakumari

• Between the years 2006 and 2010, the organization received 42 reports of homeless mentally ill persons in severe distress on the streets of the district. They were admitted to the Government Medical College Hospital, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari District. There they were treated for medical problems such as infections, dehydration, and diarrhea, but none of them received treatment for their psychiatric disorder. They were all discharged within a few days, except for two people who died at the hospital.Empowerment of women in rural areas by designing and implementing initiatives aiming at providing sustainable economic, social and entrepreneurial development.

Our Milestone in Rameswaram

• The plight of the wandering and destitute mentally ill persons at Rameswaram was repeatedly reported by the media and , but not much had been done by anyone to address the issue. In mid 2017, MANOLAYA had decided to involve itself in providing curative and rehabilitative care at Rameswaram. Several visits were made to the temple town and 97destitute mentally ill people were identified. 66 of them were men and 31 were women.