About

Cheshire Homes, a unique charity institution, has its genesis in the aftermath of the human tragedy caused by World War II.Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, a former IAF pilot, who served as the British observer on the Nagasaki nuclearattack, is the founder of Cheshire Homes. After the war he resigned from the RAF and decided to devote the rest of his life to set up homes for the disabled and the other victims of the war. From a humble beginning in 1948, today it has grown into a network of over 200 independently managed Cheshire organisations working in 54 countries across Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe, including 18 Cheshire Homes in India, serving the cause of the disabled.

Forty two years have gone by since the Thiruvananthapuram Cheshire Home was born in 1978. It was made possible with the unstinted support of the erstwhile Royal House of Travancore, the Archdiocese of Thiruvananthapuram, led by the late Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios, and a few non-resident Indians/Keralites. Set up in a picturesque and peaceful locale in the heart of Thiruvananthapuram City, the Home renders selfless, dedicated service to the physically challenged individuals, sans social or religious differentiation. Its sustained growth owes gratitude to the donations made by good hearted citizens, who believe in the adage that only by giving, one will receive more than what one already has.

Cheshire Home, Thiruvananthapuram, is administered by a Managing Committee, comprised of experienced people from different walks of life.

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Activities

The Home provides vocational training to residents in several trades like Soap making. Stitching and Embroidery Work, Electrical Wiring etc. Slowly they realize their own potential and acquire self-reliance, thus underscoring our motto “Ability in Disability”.

Activities
Soap making

Good quality homemade soaps are prepared.

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Activities
Embroidery

Vocational training will be given to inmates like embroidery, design stitching etc.

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Activities
Art and cultural activities

Involving in various events including participation in art and cultural activities, like painting, play-acting, music etc.

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Institutional Care

Cheshire Home gives free admission, food, clothing, basic medical care, physiotherapy and nursing services to its differently-abled inmates. The focus is to enable them to build self-esteem, self-confidence and to instill in them a sense of belonging. The Home provides Vocational Training to its inmates in trades like soap-making, stitching and embroidery work, motor winding, paper-bag making and repairing of household appliances. The objective is to make them discover their own potential and acquire self-reliance thus underscoring the Home’s motto “Ability in Disability”.

Cheshire Home is the home away from home, to its disabled residents. Here they learn to face and overcome their obstacles and to enjoy life to the fullest possible extent. For this at the Home, they are also encouraged to engage in artistic and cultural activities like painting, writing, play-acting and so on.

Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR)

Apart from providing permanent rehabilitation to its physically challenged, the Home is also undertaking out-reach programmes, like the above. Under this programme, assistance like food, medicines, clothing is being offered to certain selected differently-abled persons from the neighbouring Corporation Wards. This support is being delivered regularly with the help of designated social workers.

Events

Management

The Present members of the Managing Committee

Sri S Ayyappan Nair, IAS (Retd)

Chairman

Sri A K Madhavachandran

Hon. Secretary, Rtd Joint Director (Agriculture)

Sri D Chandrasenan Nair, Partner, Hotel Pankaj, Trivandrum

Hon. Treasurer

Sri Roy P George

Management Professional

Sri Adv P Radhakrishnan

Attorney

Sri N Sethumadhavan

Retired General Manager, HMT

Prof G Usha Senan

Retired Professor of English

Dr. S Hariharan

Retired Principal, Medical College Trivandrum

Sri PV Thomas Panicker

Retired Chief Architect, Govt. of Kerala

Sri M Nandakumar IAS (Retd)

Retired IAS Officer

Prof Dr N K Sankaran

Former Principal Dean of Studies, Sanskrit University

Smt Gatha Menon

Social Worker

Dr Leela Muraleedharan, PhD

Retired Professor

Most Rev. Dr. Mathews Mar Polycarpos

Auxillary Bishop, Major Archdiocese Of Trivandrum Of Syro-Malankara Catholic Church

Smt Sugatha Nair

Retired Professor

Sri Renju Philip

Associate Director, QBurst, Technopark, Trivandrum

Dr G L Muralidharan

Director Bharatheeya Vidyabhavan, Trivandrum

Sri M Suresh Chandran

Rtd Deputy Director General Geological Survey of India

Adv S Gopinath, IPS (Rtd)

Rtd IG of Police

Smt J Vijayalakshmi

Social Worker