About Jeeva Jyothi Illam

Although there are many homes for the aged people, most of these Homes admitted only persons who could afford to pay towards their boarding and lodging. A few institutions, run mostly by religious organizations, which provided free accommodation and food, coupled with dedicated service and care, were full to capacity. The plight of the aged people abandoned to the streets became a heart searching problem and a matter of concern. DALPART rose to the occasion and purchased about 2 acres and 15 cents of land near Redhills, on the outskirts of the city of Chennai. Friends and benefactors of DALPART, mostly from Kadoree Foundation from Hong Kong, and Ireland, supported the venture, and ‘We Care’ Third World Centre, Ireland, played a vital role in the completion of the first wing of JEEVA JYOTHI ILLAM. This block was blessed and inaugurated on 11th Nov 1999 on the occasion of the First Death Anniversary of Rev. Fr. Sean McFerran, an Irish priest who had served in India, particularly in Chennai, for nearly two decades and more and who had also been a great supporter of the activities of DALPART and a great inspiration to its Managing Trustee. The Home had just 10 inmates then, and soon the number began to grow and the need for constructing three more blocks, as had already been designed to accommodate 100 persons, in the near future, became a priority.