Supporters

In the year 2017-18, Sarojini Trilok Nath Trust based in New Delhi donated INR 1.5 Crores to Adarsh. It was given as a non-corpus donation. The intention of the Trust is to set up an exclusive vocational rehabilitation centre with the money so that children above the age of 18 years can be rehabilitated separately with more focus and objective. There are over 90 children at the main rehabilitation under this age category. We have formulated a detailed plan for the Programme with wide range of job-oriented activities for the children

Right from 2001-02, BPCL has been extending financial help to Adarsh on several occasions. The most recent lot of contributions was towards the Home-Based Rehabilitation project under which Adarsh has set up 5 teams each team headed by a Physiotherapist assisted by one or more teachers. These teams visit about 8 children a day at their homes and attend to their therapy and educational needs. To provide such a team, it costs Adarsh about Rs 5 lakhs a year and for over 10 years BPCL has been supporting Adarsh for 5 such teams, set up under this project. This has been a very timely help which has helped Adarsh to help about 160 children per month. And but for BPCL’s help it would not have been possible to maintain this service. In fact, the example set by BPCL has enthused others to follow their lead and now Adarsh has 5 such teams. So far, BPCL’s financial help has totalled over Rs 2 Crores

Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL) has been a regular source of income for the last several years especially for upgrading the infrastructure of rehabilitation centres of Adarsh Charitable Trust. In 2019-20, CSL sanctioned Rs.10 Lakhs towards purchasing smart boards and setting up indoor sensory play area for small children with challenges at the premises of Adarsh Charitable Trust. In 2022-23 CSL sanctioned Rs 50 Lacs towards Solar Project. By installing this project, Adarsh will become one of the special schools in Kerala to run wholly on Solar Energy. This also helps us to reduce the huge electricity charges incurred by the Trust every month/bi-month for running the schools and vocational projects.

In the year 2016, HT Parekh Foundation, Mumbai helped Adarsh by donating INR 22 L towards setting up a Sensory Room as well as to contribution to the corpus of the Trust for INR. 7 L and INR 15 L respectively. In 2020, they donated another INR 35 L towards meeting the revenue expenditure of the Trust. Trust puts on record its special thanks to Shri C V Ignatius retired Senior General Manager of HDFC Ltd Ernakulam. He was instrumental in getting the help from HDFC. Incidentally, he is now the Treasurer of the Trust.

Govt. of Kerala through the General Education Department has been a regular source of income since 2008. On an average around INR 40 L is being given every year as grant in aid to Adarsh for meeting the honorarium as well as for the office expenses. This help from Govt is unpredictable

Shri.C.K.Menon,Chairman and Managing Director, BEHZAD International Transport Company, Kuwaitand Behzad Diesel Trading, Sharjah has been a patron of Adarsh from2006. He has really been a patron of Adarsh in every sense of the word, even before becoming the chief patron officially. His financial contribution of over Rs.80 Lakhs is the single largest contribution to Adarsh from any corporate body or individual. His wise counsel and empathetic reaction accompanied by appropriate help have made him an integral part of Adarsh. The news of his demise, sudden and premature, on 1st October 2019 came as a big shock to Adarsh. It is an irreparable loss to Adarsh

Give India, Mumbai, a funding NGO based at Mumbai has been the most consistent fund raiser for Adarsh. From August 2006, when Adarsh was registered with them, the monthly receipts of donations channelized through them have been steadily rising, reaching a figure of Rs 13 lakhs during 2011-12. The total receipts from them till December 2020 was around INR 1 Crore. A very heartening feature of donations received through Give India is the fact that all but a very few are donations in small lots from well-meaning benefactors who are obviously impressed by the effort of Adarsh towards amelioration of the lot of children with challenges . Spreading awareness about the problem of disability in children, its magnitude and the various methods in which NGOs engaged in the field can be helped is a very important aim of Adarsh and, therefore, the role of Give India in this respect Adarsh values very greatly . Through frequent communications and even physical checks, they have helped Adarsh to update and correct their procedures to ensure greater degree of transparency and thus Give India has been also a guide and morale booster for Adarsh.

Shri.N.Krishnan, advisor Ankur Capital Mumbai has been a constant source of financial support and encouragement in many ways to Adarsh. His personal contribution is close to Rs. Lakhs. In liaising with Give India foundation as well as other willing donors and arranging large donation from them, Shri Krishnan has been a great help to Adarsh. We are sure that we can look forward to his continued help.

Shri.Ramesh Kymal,Managing former Managing Director Siemens Gamesa Chennai has been associated with Adarsh for over 15 years. It was his personal understanding of the working of Adarsh, the important role it is playing not merely in respect of children getting trained in Adarsh but also in the community around, that helped him to include Adarsh as one of the major projects of Vestas and now Gamesa in their “Corporate Social Responsibility” sector. The financial help from them at regular intervals has been such that Adarsh has come to believe that whenever an urgent need arises, Kymal could be contacted and depended up on. So far their combined financial help has been Rs.30 Lakhs.

Shri Kochouseph Chittilappilly , Chairman of V-Guard Industries is a well-known person in Kerala , not only as an inspiring entrepreneur but also as a great human being worth emulating, for his benevolent acts of kindness towards fellow human beings. From the Trust which he is heading, he has contributed to Adarsh so far over Rs 40 lakhs for Adarsh .and continues to be a source of hope and inspiration for Adarsh.

Starting with the provision of the lift in the new school building in December 2005, Shri Unni Bhaskar has been sponsoring several of our projects. In April 2008, he sponsored a visit of our former chairman to Dubai to participate in a cultural programme of Kala Bhavan,Dubai. At the venue and earlier, the working of Adarsh was so well and favourably projected that the Chairman, was able to return to Adarsh with a collection of over Rs. 4 Lakhs. Shri Bhaskar’s contributions have so far exceed Rs. 12 Lakhs.

Think India Foundation is a Non-profit NGO based in USA. They came to Adarsh through Give India. It was sometime in 2008-09, Adarsh uploaded a project proposal for constructing additional class rooms for the children in their website. After going through the proposal, Think India Foundation showed interest and contacted us through Give India. After a series of discussion with the Management, the foundation donated Rs.11 Lakhs for the project. The project cost was Rs.30 Lakhs and was fulfilled with the help from Padmashree C K Menon.