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Senior citizens' homes should have children: Governor

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, SEPT. 14. Integration of homes for the senior citizens, destitutes and mentally challenged children is a good idea and needs to be replicated in all parts of the country, the Governor, P.S. Ramamohan Rao, has said.

Participating in a `Charity Nite' in aid of the Siva Sakthi Homes-Kancheepuram recently, the Governor said senior citizens' homes would become more enjoyable if school children lived with them. There was an opportunity for them to share their love and wisdom with the children, and they could fill the role of grandparents for the children, he said.

M. Karpagavinayagam, Judge, Madras High Court, made the point that one is responsible for one's destiny. "Your destiny is in your hands," he said. Nalini Chidambaram, lawyer, donated Rs. 5,000 to the Trust and K.B. Brahmadathan, Chief General Manager, BSNL, Chennai Telephones, presented a cheque for Rs. 15,000 to Vijayakumari C.C., Managing Trustee.

Bernard Mayor, Chairman, GoldQuest International, said the motto of their Mumbai-based QuestNet, a leading numismatics and networking company, was, `Raise Yourselves to Help Mankind.' The company sponsored the event.

P.N. Devarajan, chief patron of the Trust said it operated the Siva Sakthi Homes for the mentally- challenged, orphans and destitute children and senior citizens at Alapakkam and Sri Rajarajeswari Nagar in Bangalore. The therapeutic unit functioning in Chennai had been planned for the Bangalore home also, he said.

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