Project and activities
Learn more about the organizations the
Shri K. Pattabhi Jois Charitable Trust has supported:
Rotary Artificial Limb Centre (2005)
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Rotary Mysore Mahaveer Artificial Limb Centre (RMMALC) has been focused, from the outset, in the direction of rehabilitation of the handicapped with the fabrication and fitting of light, sturdy and user friendly artificial limbs, free of cost, to identified beneficiaries. Our donation covered the costs of 30 prosthetic limbs.
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Siddalingeshwara School (2005)
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Siddalingeshwara School is a primary school that teaches children up to 7th standard, located in Vijayanagar, II stage, Mysore. Our donation went to purchase benches for the students.
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Rehabilitation Society for the Visually Impaired (2006)
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Rehabilitation Society for the Visually Impaired (RSVI) manages a blind hostel that serves 20 girls and 20 boys, all of whom were present for a charity show held on 23 September 2006 at Vontikoppal Club at Mysore. They desired to have kit bags to safely carry their belongings. Further, our donation enabled the hostel to buy proper vessels and equipment for cooking, a fan and a large water boiler.
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Pratham Mysore (2007)
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Pratham was initiated by UNICEF in 1994 with 2,000 children in Mumbai. It now serves over 20 states across the country, reaching out to over a million children. Pratham Mysore, functioning since May 2002, works with the state school system and the community through various interventions that begin at the pre-school level and include remedial education for children in the school system. The Pratham Mysore goals are to ensure that every child in Mysore goes to school and learns well, to impart teaching skills to as many educated unemployed women as possible, to improve educational standards in primary schools, and that there be no new generation of illiterates by 2010. Our donation helped to open up educational opportunities for Mysore children.
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Chetana Trust (2008)
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Chetana Trust aims to provide comprehensive mental health care for the needy and deserving, and also undertake programs to educate society about the attitudinal changes required regarding mental health.
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Nagarhole National Park (2008)
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The Nagahole National Park is a precious wildlife sanctuary located outside Mysore, abundant with rich forest, streams, valleys and waterfalls. Our donation supplied proper trekking shoes and substantial rain jackets for the wardens.
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Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama (2009)
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Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama, Mysore has the biggest publication of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda and Vedanta Literature in Kannada. The Ashrama conducts periodic discourses, spiritual retreats, Yogasana classes and daily prayers for the benefit of the public. The Ashrama also releases a kannada monthly magazine 'Viveka Prabha' which has a circulation of 16,500. With a view of taking education to the door of the common man, the Ashrama has launched a program named 'Jnanavahini', a Mobile Education Program for the benefit of the people staying in rural areas. The Ashrama also conducts 'Viveka Shikshana', a 'Special-Support Free Education Program for the poor' aimed at educating poor students to come up in life and studies.
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AIM for Seva (2009)
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The mission of AIM for Seva is to make education accessible to every child in the tribal, rural, and urban areas through the concept of a Student Home, and to provide basic health care to people living in the remote regions of the country. Their Leelavati Chatralya in Mysore, which was inaugurated 1 June 2007 and visited by the late Shri K. Pattabhi Jois himself, houses 35 rural and tribal children, aged 6-16 years old. These children are now able to go to a nearby government school, where before they had no access to education. There are 60 active chatralyas, helping more than 2,000 students in 15 states in India.
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Rashtreeya Seva Bharathi (2009)
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14 districts of North Karnataka received heavy rainfall and more than 260 people lost their lives due to floods. Thousands of animals died. More than 4 lakh houses were washed away. Our donation has been used to render relief service to flood affected victims and help rebuild permanent houses for those people who lost their houses in the floods.
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Mysore Citizens Forum (2010)
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