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UNDAUNTED: Mentally challenged persons work at Sakthi printing press run by M. S. Chellamuthu Trust and Research Foundation in Madurai. MADURAI: M. S. Chellamuthu Trust and Research Foundation, an institute for mental health and rehabilitation, has been chosen for the national award for the empowerment of persons with disabilities–2007. It will be given away by President Pratiba Patil at a function scheduled for December 3 in New Delhi. The trust, founded by senior psychiatrist C. Ramasubramanian in 1992, has established many centres in and around Madurai for treatment and rehabilitation of persons with mental disabilities to enhance their quality of life and enable them to reunite with society independently. The experience of having a brother with mental illness prompted Dr. Ramasubramanian to take up psychiatry and resolve that no person should suffer for want of treatment. The trust has three residential centres for rehabilitation of the mentally challenged persons out of which one is meant for women. There are two day schools for special children and one de-addiction centre to reclaim alcohol/drug addicts supported by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment. As part of the community mental health project, the trust has adopted the Madurai East block, covering 224 villages, where it conducts weekly screening/rehabilitation camps with the support of Andheri Hilfe, a German-based funding agency. With committed doctors, counsellors and volunteers, the trust has helped hundreds of mentally challenged persons overcome social stigma, recover from the illness and join their families. “Many of the rehabilitated are earning well through various income-generating schemes and contributing to the family. The vocational training centre identifies and promotes individual talents,” says R. Rajakumari, executive director of the trust. The trust is a research centre of the Department of Science and Technology, a nodal training centre of the Rehabilitation Council of India, a technical consultant of the Mental Health Programme in Madurai, Ramanathapuram and Theni districts and a study centre of the Tamil Nadu Open University. Twenty self-help groups with mentally challenged persons have been formed by the trust. It also organises a free medical camp for mental illness at Sivakasi every month, in which free medicines and food are provided.
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