ViswaSanthi Foundation is a non-profit organization established by actor
Mohanlal in the names of his parents Viswanathan and Santhakumari in 2015.
It is registered as a
Section-8 Company of the
Companies Act 2013, under the name ViswaSanthi Development Foundation.
The foundation was started with the objective of creating and delivering high impact and focused programs to the under privileged sections of the society in the areas of health care and education.
Activities
In 2018, Mohanlal met the
Prime Minister of India
The prime minister of India (IAST: ) is the head of government of the Republic of India. Executive authority is vested in the prime minister and their chosen Council of Ministers, despite the president of India being the nominal head of the ...
Narendra Modi and briefed about the foundation's social initiatives. The foundation has sent relief materials to different parts of
Kerala during
2018
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and
2019 Kerala floods
On 8 August 2019, due to heavy rainfall in the monsoon season, severe flood affected Kerala. As a security measure in the prevailing situation of heavy rains, the India Meteorological Department had issued a red alert in the 9 districts in N ...
including new house to the family of a flood rescue operator and children's education for one of the victims. They launched the ''Amrita-ViswaSanthi Health Care'' project to help poor children suffering from
heart ailments and meet their
heart surgery expenses in
Amrita hospital.
During
COVID-19 pandemic in India, the foundation has donated
PPE kits and
N95 masks to healthcare workers and police officials in
Kerala,
Tamil Nadu,
Pune and laptops,
tablets and television sets for schools across Kerala.
The foundation donates an
autonomous robot, KARMI-Bot, for the
isolation ward at
Government Medical College, Ernakulam, which helps to dispense food, medicine, collect the trash left away by
COVID-19 patients, perform
disinfection and enable video call between the doctors and patients.
In May 2021, the foundation has provided beds with oxygen and ventilator support and portable
X-ray machines
An X-ray generator is a device that produces X-rays. Together with an X-ray detector, it is commonly used in a variety of applications including medicine, X-ray fluorescence, electronic assembly inspection, and measurement of material thickness ...
to various hospitals in Kerala. They also provide support for the installation of
Oxygen pipeline to two wards and
Triage ward of Government Medical College, Ernakulam. The foundation executes this 1.5 crore project with EY Global Delivery Services and
UST.
References
External links
Official website{{Mohanlal
Foundations based in India
Non-profit organisations based in India
Organizations established in 2015
Organisations based in Kochi
Mohanlal
2015 establishments in Kerala