ST ANNE MADRAS

03. HOMES FOR THE AGED, TERMINALLY ILL, PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED
Homes for the Aged - Gudiyatham, Mannivakkam, Thondamanthurai

We believe that caring for the elderly means striving for excellence through optimum nursing care and a friendly, loving environment. We provide them with a homelike atmosphere. We believe in caring for our senior citizens by providing them with many activities to maintain cognitive skills and opportunities for socialization, a clean and cheerful environment, with opportunities for spiritual enhancement and counseling. The religious services allow them to continue to be devoted to God. Recreation therapy is widely used and it brings a lot of joy and fulfillment to the lives of the elderly. Every effort is made by us to provide the elders with a comfortable, safe and dignified life during the evening of their lives. Regular medical checkup is conducted here. Our mission is to provide a loving and spiritual community for older adults to live lives of caring and wholeness inspired by our Annite foundation of fraternity, service and prayer.Although it is only relief work, it is a necessary ministry. The service rendered by our sisters to the elderly is an important mission that needs special care and attention. This ministry can be of great help to the Church and to society.

Home for the terminally ill - Burdwan
Since 2010, we have been working here in Chetana Community Care Centre (CCCC) at Jhinguti, Burdwan (West Bengal) serving the most vulnerable community of the PLHA (People Living with HIV/AIDS). This program aims at reducing HIV/AIDS related morbidity and mortality in adults and children, lessening the impact of HIV on children and women through prevention, treatment, care, and instilling God’s compassionate love. At present 20 destitute children affected by the disease are under our care.

Home for the physically challenged - Kodur
In our society with so many divisions on the basis of caste, creed and status, the handicapped are even more marginalized since they are dependent on others for the rest of their lives. Hence they are considered a burden to their families and sometimes a punishment for the family by God. Hardly 5% of the deaf, blind and the mentally retarded children get any facility for education in our country. The few specialized institutions cater mostly to upper class elite society are concentrated in urban areas. Keeping this in mind,we with a strong vigor work for the physically challenged children at Kodur.

Objectives of our deaf and dumb school at Kodur

To love and include and cater to the needs of the disabled
To accommodate the disabled children in our home and provide a chance to learn
To improve their health and hygiene through medical checkup and treatment
To give them speech therapy,which will facilitate the capacity of hearing.
To create more leaders in future.
To help them to be optimistic.
To help them increase their self-confidence and self-esteem.
To make them feel that they too are capable of climbing the ladder of greater heights.
To create an atmosphere of acceptance and self-respect.
To bring to the physically challenged a hope for the future.
To give them psychological stability.
To help the families to cope with the physically challenged member of the family and treat him/her with affection and respect.
To bring out the best in the physically challenged and to help them develop the skills that they are good at.

04. SPECIAL SERVICES
01. Our mission to irular community

To uplift the life of irular, a committed group of sisters work at Villupuram. A movement called Pazhangudi Irular Kalvi MembattuThittam has been initiated by them through which many irular children benefit every year. Our sisters are fully involved in educating them by the following strategies:

Summer camp
Residential School
Sending children to other boarding for studies
Guiding them to receive higher education and special coaching.

02. Prison ministry
Our objectives in this ministry

To bring the prisoners from the dark cells
To comfort them & bring solace.
To uphold their lost dignity.
To integrate them in the main stream of the society.
To heal their brokenness.
To enhance their disintegrated families
To help them grow spiritually
To inculcate good values
To bring in reconciliation and settlement
To mediate between prisoner and their family
To provide legal aids
To be united in compassionate relationship with the prisoners
To listen to their pour outs
To counsel their broken relationships
To provide legal awareness
To renew, release and rehabilitate

Our activities inside and outside the prison

Visiting the prison in regular intervals
Helping the prisoner who asked us to communicate to their families through phone and visiting families of the prisoners
Taking efforts for reconciliation, compromise and settlement
Taking part in the Eucharistic celebration in the prison hospital twice in a week
Identifying the most deserving prisoners and helping them to come out in bail
Locating benefactors for financial assistance
Attending prison ministry India meetings on second Saturdays
Providing the medical facilities for the prisoners
Finding jobs for them and to live a new life in the society
Arranging for free legal aid

LIST OF OUR SOCIAL WORK CENTRES

No	Place	Mission	Beneficiaries
01	Balichok	Boarding Home	Tribal girl children
02	Banaswadi	Hostel	Working women
03	BathuBasti	Working Women’s Hostel	Tribal women
04	Belpharai	Boarding Home	Tribal girl children
05	Burdwan	Home for Children	Children infected with AIDS
06	Bolarum	Hostel	School children
07	Chethupattu	Boarding Home	Poor and orphan children
08	Chittoor	Hostel	Tribal (SC/ST) girl children
09	Christianpet	Boarding Home	Poor, orphan, tribal and prisoners’ children
10	Cleveland Town	Boarding Home	Prisoners’ Children
11	Dudhani - Dumka	Hostel	Tribal girl children
12	Gudiyatham	Home for the aged	The aged
13	Gunadala	Boarding Home	Orphan, semi-orphan and poor girls
14	Halasuru	Legal Assistance Office	Women and the poor
15	Kadappakkam	Social Work Centre	Dalit women and children
16	Kalakkampadi	Social Work Centre	Tribal women and children
17	Kattupadi	Boarding Home	Orphan, semi-orphan, poor and tribal children
18	Kilacheri	Boarding Home	Orphan, semi-orphan and the poor girl children
19	Kodur	Residential School	Deaf and dumb children
20	Korukollu	Boarding Home	Orphan, semi-orphan and poordalit girl children
21	Kumilanguzhi	Home for Children	Orphan, semi-orphan and poor girls
22	Kuttakadu	Home for Children	Tribal children
23	Lalgudi	Typing and Tailoring Centre	Young girls and women
24	Mannivakkam	Home for the aged	The aged
25	Mettuguda	Boarding Home	For the abandoned street children
26	Muttom	Social Work Centre	The poor young girls and women
27	Nagamangalam	Boarding Home	Srilankan refugees
28	Nandyal	Hostel Boarding Home	College girls Poor children
29	NGGO Colony	Boarding Home	Prisoners’ children
30	Parry Nagar	Hostel	College Girls
31	Pavagada	Social Work Centre	Dalit women and children
32	Pedda Kottla	Boarding	School boys
33	Perungudi (Chennai)	Typing and Tailoring Centre	Poor young girls and women
34	Pudupet	Hostel	For working women
35	Punalvasal	Hostel	School children
36	Renigunta	Boarding Home	Orphan, semi-orphan and poor children
37	Roshanagaram	Boarding Home	Orphan, semi-orphan and poor children
38	Royapuram	Boarding Home	Orphan, semi-orphan and poor children
39	Sitheri	Social Work Centre Evening Tuition Centre	The poor tribal women School children
40	Telaprolu	Boarding Home Social WorK	Tribal dalit children For poor dalit women
41	Thatchur	Tailoring Centre	Orphan, semi-orphan and poor children
42	Theresapuram,	Remedial Boarding Home	Poor irular children
43	Thirupathy	SC/ST Hostel	Poor irular tribal children
44	Thondamanthurai	Home for the aged	The aged
45	Varadarajanpet	Hostel	The college girls
46	Velliavilai	Home for Children	Orphan, semi-orphan, poor girls
47	Vellore	Working Women Hostel Tailoring Centre	Working Women Poor women in Ariyur, Malaikodi
48	Villupuram	Social Work Centre	Tribal women and children (Irulars)