Udavum Karangal

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Udavum Karangal is a philanthropic organization based out of Chennai, India. This organization does unparalleled service taking care of orphans and other needy people helping them in all forms of development. The founder of this organization is Mr. Vidyaakar, who is by now an household name in Chennai when it comes to helping the poor.

Udavum Karangal, which in Tamil means "Helping Hands", is a social service organization, established in 1983, with an objective of serving people in distress who are orphans & destitutes.

The organization's humble beginnings trace back to 1983, when Vidyaakar began his work in a voluntary counseling and guidance centre, as a professional social worker, in the slums of NSK Nagar, Chennai. A puny, dehydrated, wailing baby boy was brought by a rickshaw puller, who had found it, abandoned in a cinema hall, after a night show. Since then there has been no looking back, neither for Vidyaakar nor for Udavum Karangal.

Udavum Karangal extends help & succour and a new lease of life to nearly 2000 unfortunate persons from new born babies, abandoned or orphaned to old dying destitutes. The center provides individualized services, treatment, care, rehabilitation and education to those in distress.

The activities Udavum Karangal is involved in are:

Residential Care, Short Stay, Health Care, Educational Facilities, Rehabilitation, Ambulance & Mortuary Services, Disaster Management (to the victims of the society and nature), Information, Guidance & Counselling.