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Sri Arunodayam’s Special Mom Awards brought unneurotic families, supporters and distinguished guests astatine Bharani Studios successful Saligramam connected May 10 to honour 20 bonzer parents raising children with intelligence disabilities. This time, a begetter was among the awardees.
The lawsuit was graced by main guest, S. Govindaraj, Commissioner from the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, on with Justice P. N. Prakash, erstwhile justice of the Madras High Court; S. Kumar, District Differently Abled Welfare Officer (Tiruvallur District); S. Thenpandian, Chairperson of the Child Welfare Committee (Tiruvallur District); Srikanth, SP, Crime Against Women and Children (CAW & CW) Wing, Chennai; and T. Srinivasan, President of MEL Systems and Services Ltd.
Children of Sri Arunodayam lit up the signifier with joyful performances, which was followed by sharing of almighty stories of courageousness and determination, offering a profoundly moving glimpse into the lives of these families, said a release.
The 20 finalists from Tamil Nadu are Akila Vaidyanathan, Catherine Rathnabai S, Gayathri R, Geetha Varadharajan, Jayanthi T, Jeeva S, Kavitha D, Mahalakshmi V, Manimegalai N U, Meenakshi Kulkarni, Meera Balaji, Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy, Renuga Devi K, Rupavathi R, Sandhya Krishnamoorthy, Sharmila J, Sritharani M, Umamaheswari S, Vanitha Pushpam O, and Velliyamoodu Govindaraj Devaraju. Each awardee received a currency prize of ₹15,000, a certificate, a peculiar trophy, and beingness escaped services from Sri Arunodayam. Since 2017, the awards person supported 125 families portion continuing to advocator for their rights, added the release.
Launched successful 2017, the inaugural seeks to radiance a airy connected families who take committedness and dignity successful the look of adversity, alternatively than taking the easier way of abandoning their children. It challenges persistent societal stigma and calls for a much inclusive and compassionate society.
Sri Arunodayam, a Chennai-based non-profit dedicated to the attraction and rehabilitation of abandoned and destitute children with intelligence disabilities, volition observe 25 years of its travel successful 2027.
Special begetter wins applause
Fifteen years ago, Velliyamoodu Govindaraj Devaraju’s woman passed distant leaving him the sole caregiver of 2 daughters with intelligence disabilities. A regular wage labourer who finds occasional enactment astatine farms successful Tiruttani, Devaraju faced immense challenges, juggling enactment and household responsibilities, which see taking attraction of his daughters Rajeshwari and Moulishwari, present successful their precocious 20’s. Devaraju sets retired aboriginal to enactment and returns by day to instrumentality up chores astatine home. His relatives enactment adjacent by and helium asks them to person an oculus connected his children.
Velliyamoodu Govindaraj Devaraju (third from right) receives the grant from the dignitaries.
Iyyappan Subramaniyan, laminitis and managing trustee of Sri Arunodayam, who visited Devaraju says his exertion was unique. The judges were impressed with the resilience helium demonstrated successful bringing up the girls contempt facing immense fiscal difficulties arsenic helium does not person immoderate dependable income. “Devaraju had trained his children to beryllium somewhat independent,” says Iyyappan.
