Thomas. The Main activity of the trust is to rehabilitate abandoned psychiatric patients wandering on the roads. Such patients are brought to Navajeevan Bhavan by the trust volunteers and the concerned authorities (police).They is taken to the hospital the next day for treatment. After long months of treatment most patients recover to good health. They are sent back to their respective home provid
ed they are able to give the correct address and their kith and kin are prepared to accept them. In the absence of proper address, the trust takes care of these people for life long. At present there are 220 mentally deranged persons both male and female from all over India belonging to different castes and creeds being cared at the Trust campus. Among these 48 patients are non malayalees hails from various parts of India, and even from Nepal. Those who are cured help in the various activities of the trust. At Navajeevan Bhavan, bed ridden patients are taken care of. Now there are 26 bed ridden patients with us: who are not able to do anything, even to move for their primary needs. Yet another important activity of the trust is the Food Distribution in Government hospitals in kottayam, namely Medical College Hospital Kottayam, Institute of Child Health (ICH) Kottayam and District Hospital. At present about 4000 poor patients receive our free food daily. Apart from this the trust also arranges medicine for the neediest patients coupled with donation for scanning and travel expense etc. In addition to it, in order to help the poor patients the trust provides free ambulance services. The trust also donates or makes arrangements to donate blood during emergencies. There is a new programme initiated by Navajeevan named “ORU KY ORU POTHI “. In order to promote the importance of charity among the school children and general public. The trust does not have any permanent source of income. Donation is our only income. People who know about our activities come and give donation in cash or in kind or they send cheque, DD or M.O. Almost all the works at Navajeevan are done by the volunteers. They render their services day and night. Prayer is the source of strength and inspiration for Navajeevan. There is continuous prayer in the prayer hall of Navajeevan. We take this occasion to express our heartfelt gratitude to our beneficiaries who help us in various forms and means .