Mysore:
Unlike other business administration postgraduates, these two graduates have opened a non-government organization to help the needy. They provide food, shelter and rehabilitate mentally-challenged persons and the destitute in Mysore.

Meet 28-year-olds, B Manu and Vinod Kumar, who have rehabilitated around 109 mentally-challenged destitutes since the inception of their NGO two years ago. They aim to rehabilitate the destitute and reunite them with their family members.

They earn by organizing rehabilitation camps for individuals, who are addicted to alcohol and drugs and use the income to help poor orphans, who are suffering from diseases. So far, this NGO has rehabilitated more than 300 people, including destitute, drug and alcohol addicts.

Speaking to TOI Manu said, “I had been to Himalayas three years ago and I found many people who had left their families and were suffering from psychiatric problems. This inspired me to help mentally-challenged orphans. We don’t collect any donations from people but we accept even old clothes, food grains and other necessary things.”

Presently, doctors, psychiatrists, and nurses in this center are treating 11 mentally-challenged orphans for free of cost.

Manu and Vinod, who run the NGO-Wee Care Hospital-have formed a rescue team. Whenever the NGO gets a call from the public regarding mentally-challenged people suffering from diseases from any place of Mysore district, they visit the area and bring them to the NGO on T Narasipura road for treatment.

Two destitutes who were rehabilitated here are now working as security guards at their place. They are getting good salary too.

Manu was residing with his father Bal Gopal, a businessman and mother Shobanna. But for the past year, both Manu and Vinod are residing on the hospital premises to provide better service. Vinod’s parents K A Bojappa, a coffee planter and K B Kamala, are in Kodagu.

“Nowadays people are depressed for various reasons, so we have started working from the grassroots level. We have started organizing training programmes in schools to build self-confidence among children,” says Vinod Kumar.

Self-confidence training programmes have been organized in 33 schools. Soon similar kind of programmes will be organized in rural areas.

source: http://www.Timesofindia.indiatimes.com / City> Mysore / Home> City> Mysore / by Pavan M V / TNN / February 25th, 2012