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S. Ramakrishnan

S. Ramakrishnan

Founder President

Founder of Amar Seva Sangam

S. Ramakrishnan is the founder president of Amar Seva Sangam (1981)[1], an Indian non-profit working on disability, healthcare and education from Ayikudy.

Amar Seva Sangam

Amar Seva Sangam was founded in 1981 at Ayikudy in southern Tamil Nadu by S. Ramakrishnan, a person with spinal cord injury, and is run alongside promoter S. Sankara Raman. It works to empower persons with disabilities through institute-based and village-based rehabilitation, early intervention for young children, education, vocational training, sports and self-employment support.

Amar Seva Sangam reports the following, on its own site:

  • 1,05,274 adult programme service users
  • 5,656 children receiving early intervention (below age 6)
  • 6,376 service users above age 6 in vocational training and PMRC
  • 627 self-help groups for differently abled people

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