Community

Integrated Rehabilitation Centres for Addicts

Drug and alcohol addiction can wreak havoc on communities and families, tearing them apart and ruining lives. To address this problem, we run 2 de-addiction centres where we counsel addicts and provide medication that reduces their urge to resort to addictive substances. Each centre serves 15 patients every month, adding up to an annual capacity to serve 360 patients. In reality, we end up serving more than that number.

1. Deepam: our centre at Tambaram
Run with the aid of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Deepam (meaning 'lamp') is a 15-bed hospital that treats addicts for an average of 3 to 4 weeks, after which most are rehabilitated and resume normal living. The few patients who do relapse are treated for longer.

2. Bodhimaram: our centre at Villupuram
Funded by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment At Bodhimaram (meaning ‘enlightenment’ ), we rehabilitate drug and alcohol addicts from Villupuram district with the support of qualified psychologists, counsellors, and a medical team.

Empowerment of Gypsies by working with 800 Gypsy families in 10 settlements of Chennai

gypsy settlements to motivate children to go to school, encourage women to take-up income generation programme, formation of youth group and women group and eventually form gypsy settlement development committee. Kalaiselvi Karunalaya Social Welfare Society has been over the years actively campaigning for protecting of Rights of Gypsy community in various forms like abuse and exploitation. KKSS with the support of KFB has been creating space and opportunity for expressing the rights and privileges that they are deprived, excluded and vulnerable to their development for active participation in all sectors like health, education and community participation. They were given skill up gradation for small business promotion activities.

 

Contact

Call: (+91) 044-26257779 OR (+91) 044-26254956

Email: rajini@kkssindia.org

 
 

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