Vijayalakshmi: We have a person here. lets talk to her and get benefited. Please tell your name. Jenifer: My name is Jenifer. V: Where do you work? J: I am working in Banyan. V: Which is your native place? J: Kerala. V: So you came from all the way from kerala and working here is it?? J: I did my education here itself. Once in a while only i go to my native place. because i am working here. I am working in Mogappair eri scheme, 6th main road. The place where i work is, a home for mentally affected women. The name of the organisation is The banyan. I am working there from past 2.5 years. Many mentally affected women are there in that home. They dont know what is good and what is bad. Its an NGO and when we get a call from public regarding any homeless mentally affected women we go and rescue them, give them bath, treatment, we give clothes and food. we give medicine to them till they recover. Doctor checks them on daily basis. Once they become normal, they tell us the story behind them. We ask for their address and take them to their address and drop them to their house. There are more number of Hindi speaking people. If they dont have parents, we take them to their native and join them in the home which works for such women. If you come across any such people do let us know. We have separate hostel for men also. V: Do we have to come and drop them or we just have to call you? J: you just have to call us. because mentally affected people will not stay in one place. V: If you could give us the phone number, many people will call you and inform you. So tomorrow please come and give the phone number. Thank you for talking with us. Do you want to say something else? J: There are many people who started to go to work. We send them to work also. V: Oh they go to work too? J: Yea, they save money and buy gold many are staying separate houses. We visit them often to check whether they are doing well or not. In case they are getting relapse again wee take care of them. We give them medicine and do the rehabilitation also. We have arranged for marriage also. We are helping them if they are not able to pay the rent. Some people are come by bus to get medicine after recovering. We get bus passes for them. We give money for those who are accompanying them and the we give money for patient too. V: You are doing a great work. Tomorrow please give the number. J: The name of the founder of this organisation is Vandana Kumar. She has helped many people. Many have got benefited because of her. You can contact the number. They are helping many people. V: This is Urimai kural number. You can talk and tell anything you want. you can tell about this to many people. Jenifer told that she will give the number. If there is anybody like this, we give call this number and help them.
