Mr. Mohan worked as an auto-rickshaw driver for over 25 years. One day, while
riding in an auto-rickshaw, he saw a lady lying in the street in pitiful states. She
resembled his mother, so he took her to his house and provided comfort. Later, he
noticed that so many elderlies are living their lives on streets without any care &
proper necessities. He devoted his life to these older people and started to help
them by providing necessities and food items.
In 2002, Mohan registered his social work as a society called "SHARON SOCIETY OF
PONDICHERRY" and started to organize several social activities in association
with various non-government & government organizations. In 2008, he took a
home on rent and started an old aged home called “PUSHPAGANDHI HOME
FOR AGED” to accommodated 5 elderly surviving spouses.
Later, in 2011, Mr. Mohan launched a mobile rescue unit in the name of
“Snehan”(which means a friend) to rescue destitute abandoned elderlies from
streets, a physiotherapy unit for community elders at Kurinji Nagar, Lawspet
area and an Special school called “Sharon Special School” for children &
adults with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities (IDDs) to provide rehabilitation of PwIDDs. Now, Mr. Mohan is successfully executing more than 9
projects including government’s projects.
The virus that causes COVID-19 is mainly transmitted through droplets generated when an infected person coughs, sneezes, or exhales. These droplets are too heavy to hang in the air, and quickly fall on floors or surfaces. You can be infected by breathing in the virus if you are within close proximity of someone who has COVID-19, or by touching a contaminated surface and then your eyes, nose or mouth.
Due to COVID 19, the entire country was a lockdown and all factories and workplaces shut down. As a result, many migrant workers are left with no livelihood. They thus decide to walk hundreds of kilometers to go back to their native villages. But many of them stuck due to no transport facilities. In such a tough time, we decided to do our part to help these daily wages workers from community and Municipality Workers, Auto Drivers, Frontline Health Workers, abandoned elders, and children with CANCER & their parents.
The objective of the home is to provide a facility of an alternative home for abandoned elderly widows & destitute women, where they can live with Dignity & peacefully. After running an old-aged home in a rental building for 19 years. Now, we had our building of OLD Aged Home in VIP Nagar, Korkadu Village, Puducherry.
The School was started in 2013 with four (4) children with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities. The objective of the school was to provide daycare facilities and treatment to children & adults with disabilities.
The Sharon Society also working for the welfare and development of widows women through formation of Self Help Groups (SHGs) and providing various vocational training like stitching, door & floor Mate making, vegetable Vender, idly & dosa butter vender etc.
Every year, Sharon Society organizing at least two camps with the medicinal support of JIPMER, Pondicherry, one of the revered institutions in Medical Sciences across the country and EATON Private Limited OR Food Corporation of India (PCI), Puducherry with the onetime financial support at the end of the year.
