Gandhi Bhavan International Trust, a registered, charitable, non-profit organization started its activities in the year 2005. The Trust was registered on 21st November, 2005 and has made remarkable progress under the leadership of Sri Punalur Somarajan.
Sri Somarajan and his colleagues were inspired by Gandhian principles, and successfully built a good infrastructure facility to accommodate approximately 1250 inmates. The Trust is actively engaged in charitable, cultural and socio-economic service activities. Many philanthropists, social workers and good people contributed towards the overall development of the organization. The activities of the Trust are unique in all fields and are examples of collective social work and uplift of rural people. The Trust is active in charitable work, offering absolutely free services to society. The beneficiaries are mostly the downtrodden, poor, marginalized and destitute cross sections of society. Their main areas of operation are Rehabilitation, Health Care, Education, and Cultural and Socio-economic activities. Thus, Gandhi Bhavan aims at the eradication of diseases, providing a healthy environment, ensuring the development and welfare of women and children, abolition of poverty and other social evils etc. through community based welfare projects and residential care services to all the needy, especially children and the aged.
Amma says:
“What the world needs are servants, not leaders. Everyone’s wish is to become a leader….Let us become a real servant instead.”
Following Amma’s ideas and under her guidance, our students have always tried to do whatever they can to help those in need, maybe in small ways but with full hearts.
Our students from class XII visited Gandhi Bhavan, where they saw and understood the daily lives of the inmates, their diet, etc. They got first hand information about all the day to day activities of the residents. It made them aware of the need to take care of the destitute and the need to understand their requirements for rehabilitation.
The aim of the visit was to make our students understand the importance of feeding the “wolf of love” through empathy and reducing the power of the “wolf of hate”.
