Gandhibhavan International Trust

It runs a children's home to offer a secure environment for underprivileged kids of all ages, from kindergarteners to college-goers. The home provides comfortable accommodation, nutritious meals, medical care, and recreational facilities, along with education, art, sports, cultural, and music training. The mission is to create a loving and safe space for children who lack familial care.

This is a joint venture of Kerala Govt. Social Justice Department and Gandhibhavan. The Centre started in 2020 in a building attached to Mercy Hospital, Valakam, Kottarakkara, Kollam. The project envisages to give temporary Shelter for Jail Released Prisoners who is not having any body to accept and care. They have been given Vocational training in different skills and Agricultural practice so that they could live independently with their own earnings. This is the first such project in Kerala

Gandhibhavan has handed over a building to Government of Kerala Health Department for Covid 19 First Line Treatment Centre. This treatment centre is providing treatment to around 100 patients.
Gandhibhavan has provided Food, Mask, PPE kit, Wheel Chairs, Coat, Bed etc to above 1000 persons who were facing difficulties to find out daily needs during Covid 19 directly to CFLTs and through other Agencies and KSRTC. Mental support to Covid-19 affected patients were given though tele-counselling.
We have a plan to start a treatment centre and vaccination centre for helping both state and central government and is about to start a skill development centre for women and youth who are under poverty due to Covid 19 so that they could achieve regular income.

Gandhibhavan is having registration with Orphanage Control Board
for the Orphanage for Aged Men and Women. Separate living space and buildings for men and women are arranged. Many are picked up from streets and public places by Police, Public representatives, social activists etc and directed to Gandhibhavan. The home is providing care and support, medical treatment, food, medicine, cloth, yoga, meditation, vocational trainings and therapies including music therapy to more than 1200 members.

Gandhibhavan has a children’s home that is dedicated to provide a safe home for socially and financially deprived children and for care and protection of children in conflict with law. This home is for children of all ages upto 18 years, from kindergarteners to college going children,. The home provides a host of facilities that include comfortable accommodation, nutritious food, proper and appropriate medical treatment, skill development training, physiotherapy and recreation facilities. They are also given general education, art, sports, culture, music training. The purpose and vision of the home is to ensure a safe and loving environment for these children who have been unfortunate not to have received the love and affection of their families and loved ones. The home depends on the generous and loving contributions of kind donors from India and all over the world for its day to day working and survival.

Gandhibhavan provides schooling to the needs of over 220 Children with our special school that caters to the special needs of the children with Cerebral Palsy, Autism and other types of Mental and Physical disabilities. The school serves as a learning and developmental resource for Gandhibhavan inmate children and children coming from poor and impoverished families living within 40 KMs radius of Gandhibhavan. In the special school the children are provided with a range of developmental skills that help them to meet their daily needs and lead better and dignified lives. They are also provided infrastructure like Smart Classrooms, Physiotherapy rooms and are trained in extracurricular activities like Arts and Sports along with vocational training like handicraft making. The students are taken on educational tours to places of importance in the school bus that is specially designed to cater to their special needs.

Bedridden patients are given maximum care with compassion and love so that they will get a peaceful demise at the end. Terminally Ill patients having Cancer, HIV etc are treated here with maximum care and love. Almost 200 terminally ill patients are treated and cared here

Govt. of Kerala has started Kollam District Women’s Shelter Home in Gandhibhavan in the year 2015 in accordance with the Protection of women from Domestic Violence Act -2005. This is the first Shelter Home of this type in India. This is a project to shelter the women who are the victim of domestic violence, physical or mental or sexual or economical or others. The Shelter Home provides counselling, food, medicine, cloth, medical treatment, free legal aid and vocational trainings to domestic violence victims. It is a temporary shelter. It also providing education to children of victims and referring the inmates for job by providing vocational and skill development training. The shelter home is working to re-unite the families by solving their problems through counselling which will help them to lead happy married life. The number of beneficiaries per year is above 150

Rehabilitation centre for the Disabled was started on 01-09-2008. In this house we are sheltering all sorts of disabled persons, the blind, the deaf, differently abled, persons with Locomotor Disability etc. But in this center all sorts of destitute are admitted. We are providing utmost care to all of them and are provided with nourished food, clean cloths, shelter, medicines etc. Further we are providing Skill Development Training and recreational facilities. More than 150 people are accommodated here including a few number of differently abled Children

Gandhibhavan started a Psycho-Social Rehabilitation Centre to give rehabilitation & Shelter to the cured mentally ill persons in April 2009. Mentally ill male and female are accommodated, treated and cared thoroughly. To rejuvenate them we are arranging Arts and Cultural programmes regularly. As part of their rehabilitation, vocational training and occupational therapy also provided. The institution is recognized by Social Justice Department, Government of Kerala, Now more than 200 persons are living happily in this centre

Gandhibhavan got recognition from Mental Health Authority, Govt. of Kerala, to accommodate and to provide treatment for the mentally ill patients in February 2015. Shelter and Medical Care provided to more than 200 mentally ill patients with utmost compassion and psychological support

A Physiotherapy Unit is functioning for the support of Special School Children, Disabled and Aged inmates. The free service of this unit is also available for public from nearby areas. A trained full time therapist is engaged.

Gandhibhavan Neethi Bhavan’ is the most important department of Gandhibhavan which provides free legal aid to the poor and needy. This is the centre accredited centre of KELSA (Kerala Legal Services Authority) which is working directly under the control of the High Court of Kerala. National and International Adalats (on-the-spot combined legal negotiation and verdicts) are conducted regularly.

Once in three months the Adalats are conducted here with the Sitting of High Court Judges, District Court Judes, Taluk Judicial Officers and Distinguished lawyers.

In this case both parties, the petitioner and the accused, both don’t have to spare any money for legal consultations. Complaints are accepted every day in Legal Aid Clinic, Gandhibhavan Neethi Bhavan (Home for Justice). After studying the cases by expert advocates, Legal counselors and Psychologist, both parties are called and discussed about the merits of the case and finally the verdicts are proclaimed on

Any women who face mental or physical abuses at home could give complaints and petitions over here. Such complaints are taken up immediately; the opposite parties are called and will try to solve the problem through negotiations. But, if not possible, the cases will be transferred to the Legal Counselor (Female Advocate) who is deputed by the Government and will prepare a DIR (Domestic Incident Report) and will submit to the court and verdict is obtained through the court at the earliest. On several times we got orders(Protection order, Residence order, Monetary Relief, Temporary Custody of children and compensation order under protection of women from domestic violence act 2005. The service providing centre also provides counselling, medical treatment, services of clinical psychologist and doctor and skill development training

Gandhibhavan appeals to the society to donate food, cloth, medicines, food articles and materials for our destitute inmates with an aim to feed the family members as well as the poor and needy public and Street wanderers.

Food Packets also served regularly. Gandhibhavan aims `Food for All’, ie. no hunger person should be in Pathanapuram and near places

Interested and inspired inmates of Gandhibhavan and the interested women and children from outside are given different vocational and occupational trainings, according to their skill and education, so that they could lead an independent life by their own earnings in their future life. A minor Production Unit also functioning inside Gandhibhavan.

Tailoring, Computer training, Soaps, Agarbathy, Candles, different types of lotions, mats made of used cloths, different stitching products, paper cover, paper bag, printing, book binding, umbrella production, ornament making etc. are carried out inside Gandhibhavan. The cured destitute inmates of Gandhibhavan are engaged after proper training based on their skill and interest

Gandhibhavan started its De-Addiction and Rehabilitation Centre in the year 2008 at Ezhamkulam near Adoor in Pathanamthitta Dist.

In this centre Drug Addicts can be admitted and could undergo treatment for a month. A combined treatment system is followed here. Psychotherapy, Individual and Family Counseling, Yoga, Meditation, Family get together etc are arranged alongwith Medication as per Govt. norms, so that the Addict could get relief from this evil menace. The treatment consists of good and healthy food, care, recreation, tour programmes etc. This programmes is implemented with the co-operation of Health, Excise, Social Justice and the support of Central Ministry of Socail Justice and Empowerment, Govt of India.

The treatment is provided by experienced and expert team of physician, psychiatrist, psychologist and different kinds of therapists. Almost 200 people per year have got treatment and got cured. Periodic follow up treatment is also provided for the

68 poor girl’s marriage, including few of Gandhibhavan children were arranged and could conduct during the past 10 years.

Suitable alliances were found and all marriages were conducted in the presence of distinguished personalities from the society and with the co-operation and support of other Agencies and kind hearted philanthropic people

To those downtrodden homeless who are facing much difficulties to meet both ends and those having destroyed living space were provided with new homes and 7 such families were benefitted. This could accomplish with the help of the donations from the well-wishers and supporters of Gandhibhavan and envisages to continue this in future also

Gandhibhavan donated house plots of (4/5 cents) of land each to 15 landless families. These are the properties we have received from the well-. We have also plan to provide land to all landless volunteers of Gandhibhavan in the near future

We are sharing our contribution received from good hearted philanthropists to the very poor and bed-ridden patients among the general public on their written application and giving education grants to the most vulnerable and down-trodden students in the society.

Those who are very poor and bed-ridden patients at their homes are being provided with monthly financial assistance named Dayanidhi (Mercy Pension) and very poor students are being given Vidyanidhi (Education Aid). 25 persons each are benefited through the Schemes.

An Agricultural forum (Group)of Gandhibhavan family is functioning and those who are interested in farming and agriculture are included in this forum. Annually elected President and Secretary are orgnizers and they are elected through negotiations among Gandhibhavan family members. Vegetables and other agricultural produces are cultivated in own land, in leased lands and on available terraces. All are cultivated using bio-manures and no artificial fertilizer are used. Guidance and assistance are provided by the Krishi Bhavan, Department of Agriculture, Government of Kerala.We have received award for the best agricultural group in the year 2017. Moreover Animal farming is also doing. This include birds, honey bee, rabbit, fish, cow, goat etc. Our gardening and landscaping facility are also conducted through this group.

We are maintaining a beautiful plantation with medicinal herbs and plants which gives our atmosphere a pleasant and peaceful environment. More than 300 types of medicinal plants are cultivated in this plantation, which includes Sandal wood, Red sandal wood, Mankosteen, Tulsi, Aloe Vera, Pepper clave, Lemon balm, Ashwagandha, Lemon Grass, Rosemary, Curry leaves, Carom, Golden show, Brahmi, Amala, Sarpa Gandhi, Satavari, Henna, Neem, Ashoka etc.

Many of our visitors happily expressed that they could found solace and peacefulness by spending some time in this forest of medicinal herbs (Oushadha Vanam).

A Mobile Medicare Unit is functioning to provide Medical Care and support, especially for disabled members and senior citizens who are staying in their homes in all over Kollam district. Monthly coverage is 400 beneficiaries

1) Construction of well and toilets alongwith with Home construction.
Gandhibhavan has constructed 7 homes for its beneficiaries in different parts of Kerala. With this home Well and Toilets also constructed during 2010-2014.

2. Constructing of toilets for the rehabilitation home
Gandhibhavan is constructing toilets for the inmates of rehabilitation home with the support of Lulu mandhir building fund at Kundaym , Pathanapuram. The aim of the rehabilitation home is to protect old aged persons, disabled persons, mentally illness persons and children.20 toilets are constructing in connection with rehabilitation home

Hygiene activities
1) Distribution of sanitizer, hand wash and lotions for self hygiene.
The second wave of COVID 19 has hit Kerala badly and the state is heading an explosion in COVID-19 cases. Gandhibhavan helped the health workers and transport workers by providing sanitizers , hand wash and Lotions to prevent the Covid 19. Hygiene is best way to prevent spreading of