(Helping Hands) is a registered, non-governmental, non religious and non-profit social service organization, established in 1983, with sole objective of serving people in distress who are orphans & destitutes.
Udavum Karangal'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 Mr.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. After 25 long years, the institution has grown from strength to strength and it now houses and cares for 2000 residents.
