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"It is better to provide education to a poor person than to build a thousand temples" - Tamil poet Avvaiyar - 100 B. C. |
We use the donations to buy sewing machines, pay school and college fees etc. Our services are done in Tamil Nadu, in the southern part of India. Our charity projects are mostly done in the town Tuticorin, and in the nearby village of Pudukottai. Our achievements to-date: * Paid school fees for 197 high school students for 2 years for students of Imayam High School. * Bought sewing machines for 37 women and 1 man. * Bought 42 goats, and 2 cows for poor women * Paid a semester college fees for three young women. * Paid medical college fees for a disabled young man for 2 semesters. * Bought 3 cycles, 1 rickshaw and 1 commercial grinder. * In 2005, we collected 2000 dollars for tsunami relief and bought 10 fishing nets for the fishermen. * Helped build a principal's office and library at Imayam School * We collected 700 dollars for tsunami orphans in Sri Lanka. Dr. Clubwalla of New York helped with purchases of clothes, shoes and books for the children in orphanages. About our volunteers in Tamil Nadu, India: Professor Selvaraj Samiappan, who retired from Kamaraj College, Tuticorin is our main volunteer. He screens and identifies the children, women and men who need our help. He also buys the sewing machines, pays the school and college fees and mails us all the paperwork. Prof. Selvaraj is involved with many charitable projects in his hometown. |
| Our donors in the United States are from all parts of the United States of America and India Some Oracle employees at their Denver facility had a luncheon and collected money for our charity. Many donors chose to donate to us in lieu of Christmas gifts for their friends. We thank all our donors for their generosity, and want them to know that 100% of their money is being spent for the benefit of the poor. |
| Kolam Charitable Foundation, Inc. 6213-A Kahiliholo Road Kilauea, HI. 96754 |
| We are a Kauai based, tax exempt non-profit organization, and our name is Kolam Charitable Foundation, Inc. Our organization was started in 2004 by a few women who wanted to help the very poor and disadvantaged people in third world countries. We help a poor school run by Imayam Trust. Imayam Trust is a nonprofit entity. |
| The Goals of our organization is to provide in third world countries: * Vocational training for marketable technical skills. * School and college tuition. * Providing tools and equipment to make a living. * Providing livestock to make a living – goats and cows. * Providing basic medical assistance with eyeglasses and other implements. |
| Kolam: The art of drawing with dots, curves and lines. It is done near the front entry of the home every morning with rice flour. The purpose of this art is to feed the ants and insects. The Tamil people have done it for at least two thousand years. The Kolam art is done by women in the family, and is passed on from mother to daughter, and there are very few published books to teach this art. A few ladies clubs have compiled lists of kolams. Girls learn to make the kolams at a very young age. Rice flour is trickled between the thumb and index finger in a steady stream and the designs are created. Each family has its own collection of Kolams that are recorded in notebooks. Friends share kolams with each other. |
| About Us > Kolam Charitable Foundation, Inc., Kilauea, Hawaii 100% of donations received go to the poor and needy. All overhead and administrative expenses are borne by the board members and volunteers (including the cost of this website) |
| To mail checks in the U.S.: Kolam Charitable Foundation, Inc. 6213-A Kahiliholo Road Kilauea, HI. 96754 To mail Checks in Tamil Nadu, India: Imayam Trust & School Theri Road Imayam Nagar Pudukottai Tuticorin District Tamil Nadu Please make sure that you write Tuticorin District, since there is another Pudukottai in Tamil Nadu, and your check might get lost if that is omitted. |
