Spread of education
Removing the barriers of cost, distance and access, so that deserving students can keep learning.
Not-for-profit charitable trust · Chennai
Education, healthcare and dignity for those who need it most.
Dhronas Educational and Medical Trust was founded to serve the public without any profit motive, through the spread of education, medical relief and relief of the poor.
Who we are
Help that reaches people irrespective of caste, colour or creed.
The Trust exists for the benefit of the public at large. Its beneficiaries are not restricted to any religion, caste, creed or community, and its programmes are open to all who need them.
Medical relief
Bringing care, awareness and treatment within reach of poor and deserving people.
Relief of the poor
Standing with people in need, whether in everyday hardship or at the time of a natural calamity.
Activities
What the Trust is set up to do.
These are the charitable objects set out in the Trust Deed, grouped into seven focus areas. The Trustees take up one or more of them as needs and resources allow. Open an area to see the full list.
- Improve literacy by providing fees, books, equipment, scholarships and travel expenses to students
- Support students in graduate and postgraduate study, certification courses and competitive exams
- Provide free education to poor people
- Set up and run schools, coaching centres and colleges
- Establish kindergartens, crèches, day care centres, nurseries, schools and training centres, without profit motive
- Provide student hostels, or cover hostel fees including food and accommodation, in deserving cases
- Conduct seminars, workshops and special coaching classes for students, especially women
- Engage in adult and non-formal education, and teach languages and skills to deprived people
- Establish and support libraries, museums and reading rooms, and distribute books physically or digitally
- Run charitable hospitals and conduct health camps for poor and deserving people
- Establish and run hospitals for the poor on a no-loss, no-profit basis
- Set up hospitals and nursing homes for children, women and others
- Conduct nutritional and health services
- Conduct camps to educate and create awareness of health care, and assist in providing health care centres
- Assist hospitals in setting up facilities such as blood banks and eye banks for poor patients
- Establish and support medical institutions for research in allopathy, homeopathy, Ayurveda, Unani and other systems, particularly for chronic and incurable diseases
- Provide rehabilitation centres for people with alcohol dependence
- Establish and manage homes for the aged, providing shelter and amenities free or at subsidised cost in deserving cases
- Start child and aged homes, orphanages and shelters for women, and assist existing orphanages
- Provide accommodation, food, clothes and free education to orphans and helpless children
- Run children's homes, orphanages and mercy homes, and help street children and abused children
- Help physically, visually and mentally challenged children with education suited to their learning capacity
- Provide treatment for physically, visually and mentally challenged people
- Help self-employed women grow by arranging loans from nationalised banks and giving them training
- Establish day care centres for the children of working women
- Form self-help groups with deprived women, men and transgender people for their own development
- Provide sanitary facilities for women and children, and promote preventive health measures in rural areas
- Provide food, medical services, clothes, cooking utensils, food grains and housing to needy people during natural calamities and at other times
- Render financial assistance to the poor and deserving
- Help poor and deserving people in connection with marriage
- Work for people below the poverty line, and for deprived people, poor women and children
- Promote the all-round welfare of socially, economically and educationally downtrodden people of India
- Plant trees for a greener environment
- Conduct activities that create a better ocean, land and atmospheric environment
- Arrange awareness camps, competitions and public activities to prevent environmental degradation
- Promote guest lectures from experts on environmental awareness, for people of all ages
- Guide the public through various means of communication to build a better environment for the next generation
- Undertake all legal activities to prevent pollution and conserve water, soil and air
- Organise charitable activities on all days
- Implement the teachings of great, noble and learned people for social upliftment
- Promote moral education, culture, tradition, charity, world peace, harmony and general welfare
- Conduct periodic lectures, meetings, conferences, seminars and surveys on matters of interest to weaker sections
- Promote all manner of social activities that enrich the lives of deprived people
- Enable socially, educationally and economically deprived people to realise and fulfil their responsibilities
- Conduct orientation programmes on basic law for social workers
- Provide a medium for exchanging information and experience with similar organisations
- Undertake public welfare programmes and implement welfare schemes allotted by State and Central Government
- Make donations to other charitable trusts and institutions recognised under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act, 1961
Governance
Built to be accountable.
The Trust Deed sets out clear rules on how the Trust is run and how its funds may be used.
No profit motive
The Trust carries on no activity with the intention of earning profit.
Funds serve the objects
Income and funds are used solely for the Trust's objectives. Nothing is paid to the author, trustees or office bearers by way of profit, dividend, interest or bonus.
Audited every year
Annual reports and accounts for each April to March year are audited by a practising Chartered Accountant.
Held in the Trust's name
All investments, borrowings and activities are made only in the name of the Trust, never in an individual trustee's name.
Decisions by the board
Key decisions on trustees, property, borrowing, bank accounts and investments are unanimous where possible, and otherwise need a two-thirds majority.
Protected on dissolution
If the Trust is ever wound up, remaining assets go to a trust or institution with similar objects, and never to the trustees.
Board of Trustees
Testimonials
Stories from the people we serve.
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Get involved
Stand with us, or reach out for help.
The Trust accepts donations, grants and contributions, in cash or in kind, for carrying out its objects. Write to us to contribute, volunteer, partner with us, or ask for support.
- DonateSupport education, healthcare or relief work
- VolunteerGive your time and skills
- PartnerWork with us as an institution or organisation
- Seek supportTell us what you or someone you know needs