ஓடி விளையாடு (Odi Vilayaadu) 2025
As part of our Healthy Tamil Community (HTC) initiative, with the support of volunteers from our Children's Programs, we conducted a virtual event fully run by children from our programs and raised $3500 to support M.S. Chellamuthu Trust and Research Foundation's programs and services.
Thank you note (excerpts) from M.S. Chellamuthu Trust and Research Foundation:
Date: Sep 2, 2020
"...We are highly grateful for your effort to Support us.
You’re Support and Our Rescue Mission is making a difference! Thank you for Organizing the Fundraising Event for us and making an investment into our community by investing into the lives of others.
“Service to Mankind is service to God”. This noble gesture and timely contribution will help us to overcome the financial crisis due to the ongoing current global health threats of pandemic COVID-19 and to continue our service Homeless persons with mental illness..
We are grateful to you and your esteemed organization for your generosity, your trust, and most importantly your commitment to the welfare of the persons with mental disabilities. We also extend our thanks to the Children and the Parents who had participated in the Fundraising event. ..."
Date: Oct 7, 2020
"...We sincerely express our gratitude and appreciation for the timely contributions that you have made during this pandemic crisis. The past six months our organization faced hard times due to the shortfall of funds owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. We were uncertain on how to go about generating sufficient funds to provide basic care for the 300 homeless persons affected with mental illness living in our rehabilitation homes. We were on the verge of falling apart and we had no other choice left but to knock on each and every door. But only a few doors opened and one of them was yours- a blink of the much needed hope for us and we were overwhelmed with tears of joy, when only you came to our rescue immediately. Thank you for being the person who we could count on during our hard times.
Well-wishers like you can make the world a better place, no matter which words we use, we want you to know that we would never be able to fully express our gratitude for your timely help and generosity. Thank you for shouldering our efforts and being part of our story that we could never forget forever. ..."
The grant funds were used to buy food, medicine and basic needs for about 300 homeless people with mental illness and grocery kits for 60 families of children affected with mental illness from Aakaash Special School.
The Grocery kit for each special child family contains 15 kg Rice, 1 KG Toor Dhal, ½ KG Green Gram, ½ KG Rava, ½ Ltr refined Oil, ½ KG Jaggery, 200 gm Sambar Powder, ½ KG Channa Dhal.