Project Brief: Gems Foundation has established a home at Parassala, near Trivandrum in Kerala State, for destitue / orphaned girls and deserted / battered women and widows, in an effort to rehabilitate them socio-economically.
Project Type: Child Home (description)
Primary Focus: orphans (description)

Secondary Focus: orphans

Area: Rural
Supporting Chapter Contact:
Arizona

Status: PROPOSAL - CLOSED
Project Steward: Caroline Lobo
Co-Steward: Anita Chawla
Project Partner(s): Mary Chaly
Project Address: Gems Home for Children
George Educational, Medical & Charitable Society (Gems Found
P.O Box 1076, Pattom
Trivandrum, Kerala 695004
Tel: 91-0471-2540272, 2540888, 2540
Stewarding Chapter: Arizona

Gems Home for Children has also started a Residential School (Gems Residential School) in June 2004, for giving learning opportunities to underprevileged girls (age group of 10 to 18) and to bring about their all round development.

The school provides free food, accomodation, clothing, educational materials, tuititon, vocational training etc. In addition, training is also arranged in classical dance, classical and instrumental music etc. Medical Camps are also conducted periodically to monitor the health of the residence.
The organization is planning to start a computer lab with 10 computers for basic computer literacy for the students. Also they are planning to develop the present library to as a good one. At present they have only 5,6 & 7 classes at the school. Students for 8 to +2 are sent to the nearby school for regular schooling. They are planning to extend our school for starting Std 8 in the next accademic year.