Mr. R.Petermani, the founder of the  MIRIAM CHARITABLE TRUST.

He belongs to the parish of The Sacred Heart Church in Tirunelveli. During his early life he has helped poor rural people with food and shelter with the support and help of friends. Later in the year 2003, he established MIRIAM CHARITABLE TRUST and has initiated various activities to support poor and orphan children, old age people, widows and destitute and unemployed youth.

E.MAIL ID : miriamtrust2003@yahoo.co.in,  info@miriamtrust.org
Phone:+91 462 2585356 , Mobile: +91 9489721447

To engage in various social service activities preferably aiming at helping poor and orphan children for survival and for education. To uplift the living conditions of the society educationally and economically.To effectively organize non formal education programme with the help of State Resource Centre for non formal education, Chennai.

To encourage local bodies to form and operate schools for Balwadi children and other educational institution for the children and adult. To enable youth to acquire vocational skills for prospective employment. To help poor, destitute and widowed women by helping them to learn an income generation programme. To assist poor people in agriculture, dairy farming, poultry and industries by promoting or spreading appropriate technologies.

To cater to the needs of deserving people by organizing eye camps, medical camps with the help of state medical organization or private hospitals. To communicate and participate in different development schemes of state or central Government. To liberate underdeveloped people from social evils. To undertake programme of housing to poor people.

To provide relief to the needy in areas, affected by national calamities. To provide necessary aid to the aged, disabled and physically handicapped people with shelter, food and other facilities. The Trust shall enter into collaboration with other similar national association Trust, Federations and other institutions both Government and non government to achieve the objectives.

1. Educational help to poor children and orphans

The trust helps the needy children who are unable to study well in schools due to poverty. We will identify those children and help them by supplying books, study materials, uniform dresses and other incidental expenses. Children are identified by volunteers and field workers from the chosen villages in coordination with teachers and village development council.

2. Help To Widows and Destitute:

There are thousands of women in our service area, living in poverty without basic amenities. They are either widows or abandoned. Since they do not have means to survive they are forced to commit suicide. To provide a hope in their life the Trust assists them with a self employment programme to enable them earn their livelihood, to take care of their children etc.

The following types of assistance are to be effected.

A) Providing tailoring machines to skilled women, so that they may stitch dress for their neighboring countrymen and earn for their living.

B) Providing training for small industries like manufacturing soaps, candles, paper cups etc. and helping them with basic machineries and raw materials to commence a manufacturing unit at a small scale.

3. Help To The Physically Handicapped Children:

We identify physically handicapped children in our service area, who are not assisted either by government or other institutions and to support them by supplying them wheel chairs and materials to be used for walking. The trust sponsors the educational expenses of such identified children, so that they may also come up in life for a suitable employment.

4. Help To The Unemployed Youth For Self Employment:

Providing employment to the youth is one of the crucial problems of the society. Due to increase of population it has become very difficult for youth to get an employment. There are a number of technical courses like fitter, welder, electrician, mechanic and driver. There are ample opportunity for the youth who are trained in the said technical courses. The trust helps them acquire these job oriented training by paying their fees directly to the institution. After completion of the training the youth is qualified for a suitable job.

5. Help To Abandoned Old Age People:

In many parts of India, the protection to old age people is doubtful and insecure. In many of the families, the old parents are not taken care of due to poor lifestyle of the families, poverty and heavy family burdens. Some of the old people don’t even get their daily food. The trust assists them financially for survival and organizes a monthly health checkup programme and eye checkup programme and provide necessary help for proper treatment.