This program is being carried out throughout the district of kanyakumari with the support of merciful people, shop keepers and self help groups. CHARDEP willing to expand the same throughout Tamilnadu state in India and keeping this wide intension in mind the initial works are under process to commence the program in Chennai at the second.

As the number of such people is increased the organization requires uninterrupted support from the public and bigwig. To feed them every day grocery items, transportation facility, fuel, and manpower are the fundamental together with rest associated supports.

 

Development of the Programme

 

• When this programme was started, staff and volunteers used their own two wheelers to distribute food packets to the mentally ill, wherever they were.CHARDEP faced many hassles at the time in distribution.

• Public awareness of Annapoorna Yathra increased, and many came forward to support the scheme with donations.Recognising the need for a better means of conveyance of food,Dr.T.Sivakumar of Siva Hospitals,Eathamozhy came forward to donate a van to be used for Annapoorna Yathra .Today the Van is recognized by the people as then face of Annapoorna Yathra.

 

We are targeting to provide food for an average of 100 people every day in each district of Tamilnadu state. we keep the confidence to start a home and give free treatment to those who are in such pathetic stage and try to rehabilitate them in to the society through minimum level employment opportunity we thank all the wide hearted support us to materialise the mission.

Our first van to reach the food to the wandering mentally ill throughout the Kanyakumari district, it is a great support from SIVA Hospital, Ethamozhy.

Programs Conducted By Manolaya

 

• Cognitive Therapy :- activities like simple accounting, measurements, the use of language etc. – designed to brush up basic intellectual abilities that are needed regularly in everyday life.

• Creative Therapy :- art, music, theatre and other forms of creative/performative activities that nurture back to life dormant imaginative faculties and constructively channelize emotional release.

• Recreation and Relaxation Therapy :- through sports, parody, mimicry sessions, feasts, outings and other fun and game items that most of us take for granted in everyday life, but institutionalized mental patients hardly get a taste of.

• Occupational Therapy :- training in vocational skills like sewing, incense-stick making, block printing, stationery production, gardening – items carefully planned to help patients with greater coordination of motor and brain functions, simultaneously helping them with skills that would help in earning.

• Psychotherapy :- group and Individual counseling to address specific needs of particular patients and improved group behaviour.

• Economic Empowerment :- selling products made by clients, the proceeds poured back into the programme, and helping reintegrated patients with employment opportunities.

• Organizing Shelter :- like short-stay homes, old age homes for reintegration-ready patients with no families to go back to/abusive families/destitute families .

• Reconnecting with the Real World :- through human contact and interface with the world outside the hospital walls, through inviting visitors/ popular icons like rock stars or matinee idols to attend MANOLAYA meetings, organizing outings and tea-parties in the houses of MANOLAYA’S friends and patrons, distributing newspapers and journals etc.