A success story of education and goodwill

THE year was 2000 when N Annapurna first heard about a humble charitable trust functioning from a rented building in the village of Kasuva in Thiruninravur, about 40 km west of Chennai.

- SUBASHINI VIJAYAKUMAR

A brewing urge to serve society impelled her to reach out to the budding organisation doing commendable social service. The organisation was only twelve years old then and its modest beginnings, Annapurna daintily expresses, stand as the announcement of an awe-inspiring commitment to community service, a deep-rooted vow for collective growth. Thirty-four years down the road since its inception in 1988, the charitable trust of Sevalaya now operates across 10 districts through 16 centres.

At the Sevalaya in Kasuva, patience and perseverance seem to have paid off in a charitable style. Spread across 18 acres of lush land, it is nothing short of an ode to welfare activities.

Today, Sevalaya boasts of a school, hostels for boys and girls, an old-age home, a community college, a clinic, a mobile medical van and a goshala. Annapurna is now the honorary principal of the campus.