Bethany Karunalaya, Cherlapally, Telangana-2005

In India, at least 35 million children aged 6 - 14 years do not attend school. Many children are still vulnerable in India under challenging conditions due to a lack of access to education, shelter, food, socialization and integration in the communities. As per the official statistics, today, poverty kills one child every 3 seconds. Children are the main targets of poverty, and poverty is the primary cause of abuses relating to Children’s Rights.

According to reliable sources, thousands of children are orphans in the state of Telangana itself. In the year 2005, Bethany Fathers started an orphan project called Bethany Karunalaya Shelter Home and later St. Joseph Bethany Navajeevan Vidyalaya, at Telangana to fulfill the dream of ignored children in the state to have shelter and basic education and to make them self-reliant.

Responding to this grave scenario, Bethany Karunalaya shelters around 50 orphan children and St. Joseph Bethany Navajeevan Vidyalaya offers the best quality free education to orphan children and affordable education to other local poor students. Bethany karunalaya is a place of love that receives homeless children who are considered as family members disregarding their caste and creed. Upholding the vision, mission, and motto this institution rehabilitates orphan children and provides them with food, shelter, and proper education.

At present Karunalaya has 42 children among which 25 are boys and 17 are girls. The selfless service of Bethany Fathers and the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Zeal sisters enhances and ensures the sanctity and mirth of this institution.

Bethany sisters of the Imitation of Christ help the students to accomplish their academic excellence by giving them free education.

Institutions on the campus

• Bethany Karunalaya Children’s Home – 43 inmates
• Maria Bhavan Boys’ Home - 22 orphan boys
• Snehalaya Old Age Home – 12 inmates
• St. Joseph’s Bethany Vidyalaya for Marginalised children – 200 hundred poor students
• Bethany Vocational Training for skill development of youth- 10 women

Bethany Karunalaya at Cherlapally, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India is a registered charitable institution managed by Bethany Mission Center (Reg. No: 321/2005) of the Bethany Navajeevan Province of the Bethany Ashram Congregation. Fr. Siju Mathew OIC is the present director and Fr. Shaiju Mathew OIC is the Assistant Director of the institution. Sisters from the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Zeal help in the running of the institution along with other staff.