BETHANY ASHRAM SOCIAL SERVICE AT A GLANCE

BETHANY ASHRAM SOCIAL SERVICE AT A GLANCE

AREAS OF INTERVENTION

INSTITUTIONS/PROGRAMMES

BENEFICIARIES

Social welfare
A. Home for Old Age and Destitutes

1. Trppaadam Old Age Home, Nedumangad
2. Bethany Karunalaya Old Age Home, Telangana
3. Bethany Jeevan Jyothi Old Age Home, Thiruvalla
4. Bethany Divyakarunyalayam, Kottoor

Around 300 people are benefitted

B. Centres for Orphans and Destitutes

1. St, Antony’s Home , Vencode
2. Bethany Boys Home, Ranni
3. Bethany Karunalayam, Hyderabad
4. Bethany Boys Home, Embedeer, Goro at Ethiopia

250 children are provided free education and other facilities.

C. Mental Health Care and Psycho Social Support

1. Trppaadam Old Age Home, Nedumangad
2. Bethany Karunalaya Old Age Home, Telangana
3. Bethany Jeevan Jyothi Old Age Home, Thiruvalla

100 people, in need of Psychological care and support are provided

D. Rehabilitation Centres

TB patients Rehabilitation Centre, Pulayanarkotta

15 TB affected people

Health
A. Health aid activities

1. Grace Cancer Care Centre, Nalanchira: Financial aid to Cancer Patients is provided.
2. Anti-drug initiatives includes providing Medicines, organizing medical camps, treatment for Hepatitis etc are being facilitated in Desam, Nedumangadu to Alcoholic Anonymous group, Kumarapalayam

1000 people are benefitted in an year

B. Health Education

1. Physiotherapy College, Nalanchira
2. Nursing College, Bhilai
3. Special School, Mardala

500 students are provided educational facilities. Besides 10% students are facilitated with partial or complete educational assistance

C. Health Centres

1. Bethany Nature Cure Centre, Nalanchira
2. Grace Pain and Palliative Care Centre, Trppaadam
3. Primary Health Centre, Desam
4. Mobile Palliative Care Centres Kumarapalayam, Coimbatore and Nedumangad

More than 1000 people are helped

Rural Development
A. Non-formal and free education

1. Literacy centres are functional at Tripura, Punjab and Ethiopia.
2. Vocational Training Centres at Kinnathukadavu and Ethiopia

More than 500 people are facilitated

B. Formal free educational Projects

1. Rural Schools at Ethiopia
2. Cherupushpa Bethany Vidhyalaya, Goro Ethiopia
3. St. Joseph Bethany Navajeevan Vidhyalaya, Telangana

More than 800 students are catered

C. Educational assistance through various agencies

1. Veronica Foundation
2. Breher Foundation
3. Ahan Church Foundation
4. Sun Ray Ethiopia

400 students are helped.

D. Tribal Welfare

1. Bodhi Project, Sulthanbatheri
2. Tribal Welfare Project, Ethiopia

400 families are cared

E. Agricultural Assistance

Ethiopia

400 families from 8 villages

F. Water and Sanitation

In Ethiopia, Projects with regard to Drinking water; Rain Water Harvesting systems, water purification are implemented

500 people from 8 villages

Housing Project
A. House construction projects

Over the years, various house construction projects are implemented with the help of various social welfare agencies and well-wishers of Bethany

100 beneficiaries are helped either directly or indirectly

Charitable Interventions
A. Financial Assistance

Marriage and medical assistance

500 people are benefitted annually

B. Free material distribution

Distribution of educational materials, Food items and clothes

500 people are helped annually

Training and Awareness Programmes

1. Life skills training programmes through educational Institutions
2. Sanitation Programmes, Anti-drugs campaigns at village level
3. Seminars on Naturopathy at Educational institutions

More than 1000 people are benefitted

Practical Trainings

Practical trainings are implemented at Kolkata, Mardala, Ethiopia and Vocational Training centres

More than 500 individuals

Social interventions in Mission areas

1. Bethany mission, Kanjiramkulam
2. Bethany mission, Nedumangadu
3. Bethany mission, Sulthanbatheri
4. Bethany mission, Ethiopia
5. Bethany Mission Kolkata, Tripura and Punjab.
6. Bethany mission, Tamilnadu

Activities undertaken by Bethany from the initial years;
1. Treatment for Hepatitis and poison
2. Homeo Clinics
3. Financial Assistance,
4. Training on Technical Education
5. Ensuring availability of food items

Bethany Flood Assistance Project

In Mavelikkara, Pathanamthitta and Trivandrum dioceses.

1. Housing aid project to 15 flood affected houses.
2. Assistance to flood victims in association with CHETANA; the social work wing of Mavelikkara diocese
3. Post flood assistance including providing temporary shelter and sanitation
4. More than 4000 individuals got benefitted.

Bethany Mission, Ethiopia

1. Medical aid to podoconiosis patients
2. Aid to children affected with malnutrition
3. Aid to mentally challenged people
4. Aid to goiter affected people
5. Ambulance Service
6. Drinking water project in 10 villages
7. Rain water harvesting
8. Water storage systems
9. Educational Aid to 50 children
10. Practical Education
11. Housing projects
12. Development of roads in rural areas
13. Awareness programmes
14. Food safety programmes
15. Anti-drug campaigns
16. Small-scale industries

 

Research and Development

Navajeevan Bethany integrated Research and Development Society

 
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