To enlighten the younger minds and to make them understand the role of an Indian citizen by bringing out the self-confidence, ARTHAM planned an event in ABODE, a home in Arasaradi, Madurai (with the information given by Mr. A. Pandian).

ABODE, the precious home located in Arasaradi, Madurai is running with 42 children for the past few years as a recreational place for the children, to prevent the children from violent activities when they were brought up in an imprisoned environment. They were being educated in the nearby Govt. schools - George middle school, TELC middle school, Fathima Middle school and Velliveethiar Hr. sec. school. 

We, the Artham members, Ms.C.Shivaranjani, Ms.P.Priya, Ms.I.Abirami and Ms.K.Meena Rosheni arranged the event with the activities related to our nation on the one way or the other, on 26th January 2013. Other members attended were P.Alagarsamy Ashok,M.J.Karthick,I.Chinnathambi, Anuja,Srihari Narayanan,Pattu Subhalakshmi

Mr.P.Arumugam started the event with a brief introduction on the event and the trust. Then the children were asked to introduce themselves with their name and ambition. It was followed by Chart drawing with 5 teams of children on the topic ‘Future India’. Then the Jigsaw puzzle with the pictures of national leaders was conducted. The third event was Quiz on the topics - Leaders and activities, Indian States and Capitals, Important Indian cities and places, Indian Sports. Finally the Dumbsheruts on proverbs was conducted. Each kid was given a small memento from Artham.

All the children actively participated in all events. The members of the home gave feedback by thanking the Artham for such activities.

‘One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing more is doing more.’

With the start of New Year 2013, ARTHAM has moved forward by lending hands to educate children in Balar Illam on January 1. Education should be substantial and is a continuous process. To help the students of Balar Illam with their education, ARTHAM has decided to support the home continuously and visit the home every month.

Balar illam, a home for girl students (Class 1st -12th), is located at Thanakankulam, Madurai, consisting of nearly 80 students. It was inaugurated by PTR family with the aim to educate the poor girl children coming from the nearby villages of Madurai. The students in the orphanage are taken immense care and are provided with good education in Seethalakshmi Govt. Hr. Sec. School opposite to Balar illam. They are brought up with high discipline and good qualities.

There had been few camps conducted in the home like drawing camp, martial art classes, and yoga. Students have utilized this opportunity to display their talents and have won prizes in district level competitions. Those students were brought up in the Tamil medium curriculum and find it hard to come up with English Grammar and few topics of Mathematics.

We, the ARTHAM members Dhanalakshmi, Kalai arasi, Sowndharya, Kamala, and Yogesh under the backing of Sivakumaran decided to guide the students on Sentence pattern, transformation on sentences in English Grammar and Trigonometry, Differential calculus in Mathematics. The participation of the students was extraordinary. The interest and involvement they showed were remarkable. They really proved to be the promising future of our country. Distributed sweets at last to the students to mark the start of New year.

They happily, enthusiastically spent time with us and they never showed the feeling of being deprived of something at any point of time. We were able learn a lot from them.