Media Release
Mangalore, Nov 16: The concept launching and brochure release programme of Amulya Varsham, Home for Elderly located here was held at the Trust Office of Cdr George Martis Road in City.
Fr Santosh Ravi Kamath carried out the blessing ceremony and release of brochures. Amulya Varsham Trust is a family trust of Mavis Rodrigues. She is basically a social worker and involved in various social activities through an organization ‘Your Future’, focused on helping poor and needy. She through the organization tried to meet the needs related to health, social security and poverty of the under-privileged in the past.Her activities include blood grouping camps and arranging blood during emergencies.
About Amulya Varsham
Amulya Varsham, by meaning ‘Precious Years’ is a different concept of Home for the Elderly, which would give the experience of ‘one more own house’ with the attached facilities of Nursing Care, Nutritious and Quality food and comfort of community living. It is like a small town, where all elderly live in their own cottages, having separate kitchen where they can prepare their own food if they like common mess provision is also made. Husband and wife or brothers and sisters can share one cottage and hence the continuation of family life to the best extent possible is taken care.
Facilities are provided to the children and relatives to visit and to stay with the elderly. The senior citizens staying here are not brought under any pattern of rules and regulations and they can stay as if they stay in their own homes. Support facilities like transport and other arrangements are provided to visit family functions and for shopping.
Mavis Rodrigues, motivated by her father Antony D'Souza (80) felt the social need of providing a decent and respectful living for those senior citizens like retired officers and the parents of those who love their parents but cannot take them along due to various reasons. In times, where it is risky for the elderly to stay alone or live alone at home along with house maids, this could be the preferred arrangement.
The project is located 5 kilometres away from Beltangady town, in a place called Badyar, just adjacent to church, convent and hospital. Spread over three acres of land with thick lush greenery around, it provides peaceful and noise free living. It is targeted to build 60 cottages with arrangements for around 150 senior citizens.
Directors of the trust, Antony D'Souza, Amulya Rodrigues, and the whole family members including Calvin Rodrigues, Akash Rodrigues, and architect of the project Lawrence Cutinha were present among others during brochure release programme.