About us
We Empower Communities through Compassion and Kindness.
Mariyasadanam is a non-profit making, charitable organization promoted and managed by Santhosh Joseph in Palai, Kottayam District, Kerala State, India. It currently houses about 400+ destitute men, women and around 23 children of the inmates. Most residents of Mariyasadanam were left here by family members or abandoned and left to fend for themselves.
The Mariyasadanam Rehabilitation Centre started on March 14, 1998 as a humanitarian initiative of Santhosh Joseph with the intake of Thomas, a mentally insane destitute who was wandering in Palai town. The first resident was accommodated with the family of Santhosh. With the increase in number of residents given care at home, he re-modelled an abandoned cowshed for accommodating the growing number of destitute mentally ill people from the streets.
We saved 2700+ people since 1998
Mariyasadanam gives more importance to LOVE and CARE and the care givers in Mariyasadanam believe that in the case of mental illness, more than medications it is love and care and a family atmosphere which play a major role in bringing the patients back to normalcy. The chief functionary, Santhosh, his spouse & their 5 children reside with the inmates as one big family.
Mariyasadanam model is also a unique concept of healing. Art, music, yoga, handicraft works, group activities, prayer, gardening, animal husbandry, mediation and counselling and the like are employed here in treatment and rehabilitation.
So far 2700+ persons have been admitted to Mariyasadanam. The centre could successfully rehabilitate a vast majority of these people to their homes. This is made possible through a systematic array of interventions performed by volunteers with the support of mental health professionals.