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Run by:
Seva Chakkara Samajam (Regd.)
44, Thulasi Naicken Street,
Demellows Road, Chennai 600 012. INDIA.

• MAIN ACTIVITIES
• CURRENT FINANCIAL SITUATION
• CURRENT FACILITIES
• PROBLEMS FACED
• DONATION SCHEMES
• HOW TO SEND CONTRIBUTIONS

Seva Chakkara Samajam is a voluntary service and a charitable organization functioning mainly to uplift the downtrodden, orphan, handicapped, mentally retarded and destitute children through residential education.

Seva Chakkara Samajam was founded by Mr.A.Velayudham in 1986 (who is himself a visually handicapped, now with one artificial eye vision), later registered under Societies Act in 1990.  The premises is now located in the above address on current monthly rent  forming a shelter to about 62 children who also get their primary education in the premises.

In addition, there is a small center housing about 15 children, 2 aged persons and two workers at Tiruvannamalai, Tamilnadu.

1.  crèche
2.  orphanage
3.  socio-economic upliftment of street children
4.  primary school education – run with two teachers and two attendants.

1.  women and families of Rickshaw Pullers
2. self-help groups among women
3. short stay home for women

1.  Day care center for the aged

The Major Donors include Rajasthani Welfare Society, Anandashram, Lions Club, Rotary Club, and Employees of E.I.D. Parry Ltd., Ashok Leyland and I.I.T. Chennai.  There is no fixed donor or income as of now to the society to form a regular source of funding.  Donations are generally received from the charitable minded individuals and institutions.  Some of donors contribute in kind also.

An appointed auditor checks the accounts of the Seva Chakkara Samajam.

An overview of the running costs are given below:
 
 

Serial No	Nature of Expenses	Amount spent
1.	Salaries and allowances to Staff	1,96,500.00
2	Food, Clothing etc.	2,33,280.00
3.	Rent and Utilities	34,00.00
4.	Contingencies including stationery, telephone, postal,etc	19,800.00
5.	Office equipment	19,700.00
6.	TOTAL	5,03,280.00

 

The above expenses are taking into account the bare minimum requirement based on last year’s expenses.  This year there is one more center at Tiruvannamalai to be run.

The home in Chennai is a rented one  at Rs.1500 per month.  Currently the roof is an asbestos sheet.  The premises have a bathroom and a toilet for the inmates.  There is a metro water pump in the house for general use.  It has some basic furniture for the inmates.  A gas cooker and some vessels are available for cooking purposes.
 
 

• Strength of the home is increasing each year.
• Struggles to meet the growing cost.
• Shortage of staff for maintenance of home and its administration due to lack of funds.
• Infrastructure facilities well below sufficiency mark.
• Lack of a decent accomodation.
• No constant income structure for teh orphanage.
• Struggling to find means to meet all its needs in all the fronts.
• No corpus fund for the orphanage to meet the general maintenance and future needs.

•  DONATE LIBERALLY TO IMPROVE THE SITUATION OF THIS ORPHANAGE
• CONTRIBUTE TO THE CONSTANT SOURCE OF FUNDING GIVING FUTURE TO THOSE KIDS IN THE ORPHANAGE.
• YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE IN KIND TOO BEARING IN MIND THE KIDS’ DAY TO DAY NEEDS.
• PAY A VISIT WHEN YOU HAPPEN TO BE IN CHENNAI!  THAT WILL GIVE THEM MORAL SUPPORT.

Healthy food and good basic education.
Monthly donation:  $25 per month
Yearly   donation:   $250 per year
Corpus  donation:   $2500

Basic necessities for aged people.
Monthly donation:  $20 per month
Yearly   donation:   $200 per year
Corpus  donation:   $2000

Healthy food to one child:
Monthly donation:  $15 per month
Yearly   donation:   $150 per year
Corpus  donation:   $1500

Good Education to one Child
Monthly donation:  $10 per month
Yearly   donation:   $100 per year
Corpus  donation:   $1000

Building Fund
Donate a decent building for the
children to be accommodated.

PAYMENT MODE
Make the check in favor of
“Seva Chakkara Samajam”, Chennai 600 012.

and send them to :
Seva Chakkara Orphanage                                    or            Seva Chakkara Orphanage
44, Thulasi Naicken Street,                                                    c/o. Dr. Dilip Veeraraghavan
Demellows Road, Chennai 600 012. INDIA.                        Humanities and Social Sciences Dept.
                                                                                                 IIT Chennai 600 036. INDIA
                                                                                                 email: dvr@pallava.iitm.ernet.in

or

Seva Chakkara Orphanage
c/o. Dr. M.S. Siva Kumar
Applied Mechanics Dept.
IIT Chennai 600 036 INDIA
email: mssiva@pallava.iitm.ernet.in

If you are in the United States, you can send to :
Seva Chakkara Orphanage
c/o. Janarthanan Venkataraghavan
429, Engineering/ Physics Building T Wing
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas A&M University
College Station TX-77840.
email: janarthanan@tamu.edu

for further information, please contact:  Dr. Dilip Veeraraghavan