The Hindu : Public address system for Cheshire home

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Tuesday, Jul 16, 2002

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Southern States - Kerala-Thiruvananthapuram

Public address system for Cheshire home

By Our Staff Reporter

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM JULY 15. The public address system for the Cheshire Home, sponsored by the State Bank of Travancore (SBT), will be formally handed over to the Home at a function to be held here on Tuesday.

The secretary of the Cheshire Home, Vimala Menon, told mediapersons on Monday that the managing director of the SBT, Amitabha Guha, will hand over the public address system to the Home. The Home had last year constructed an auditorium, with the help of sponsors.

The function would be followed by a violin recital by Aathira Kodampally, the child prodigy who had been awarded the Balasree award by the President last year. The members of the Staff Recreation Club of SBT will also stage a `ganamela' on the occasion.

The Cheshire Home is now a beehive of activity with many new programmes and courses being organised to engage its 45 severely handicapped inmates, she said. Theatre workshops and other creative endeavours were being planned to bring the inmates to the mainstream.

The Home's inmates had recently staged a play, as part of an experimental theatre, the script for which had been penned by one of the inmates herself.

Ms. Menon said that the Home thrived wholly on charity and that it required Rs. 1,500 on a daily basis to provide food to the inmates. She appealed to every family coming forward to sponsor a day's food for the inmates once a year.

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