Paruchuri Vanaja Kumari

Mrs. Paruchuri Vanaja Kumari is an Indian Social Activist and the Secretary of the Theressa Mentally Challenged Rehabilitation Centre in Khammam, Telangana.

CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION:

On the 15th of August 1956, Vanaja Kumari was born to the couple Vasireddy Koteswarao and Mrs. Vasireddy Kamalamba and resided at the Khammam in the Indian State of Telangana.

Vanaja Kumari completed her 9th Standard from Zilla Parishad High School located at Revendrapadu.

CAREER IN SOCIAL LIFE:

Vanaja Kumari turned into a Social worker by joining the Theressa Mentally Challenged Rehabilitation Centre in 1995 to serve the people in all ways by working thoroughly all the time for the benefit of humanity, citing the code of conduct and disciplinary concerns.

Later on, She was appointed as the Secretary of Theressa Mentally Challenged Rehabilitation Centre, Even when Vanaja Kumari increased his commitments by embracing respectable positions, there was no deficit in providing services to the people by satisfying the requirements of everyone who appealed to her for assistance.

Vision: To become an empowered, dynamic, effective, and vibrant organization by inculcating the core values of Saint Mother Teresa to create a healthy, compassionate, and responsive world.

Mission: Since its beginning 22 years ago, we at Theressa Mentally Challenged Rehabilitation Centre have introduced a variety of socially-oriented initiatives. Every mission has a social or environmental evil at its core that must be eradicated as soon as possible. Our social workers, volunteers, and custodians engage in months of hard work and dedication to all of our missions.

THE MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE CENTER ARE:

To assist and welcome those who are mentally handicapped,

To help the mentally challenged acquire technical and vocational skills

Assist them to get the essential equipment and supplies they need to begin their own business

To support them in integrating completely into the work and the communities they live in.

The Theressa Center for the Mentally Handicapped is a lifeline for mentally ill people.

It’s a mother where everyone is involved in a love triangle. They are sociable when they wake up. There is a group of faculty that work with the mentally retarded and mentally impaired to educate them on the good and evil with patience and effort. This organization’s major goal is to help people establish a place in society.

This is how the mentally ill in our society think of themselves and why they are worthless. The Theressa Center for the Mentally Handicapped is a sanctuary dedicated to integrating mentally handicapped children into society. Mrs. Parachuri Vanaja Kumari, the organization’s administrator, is working hard to raise standards for this school for the mentally challenged.

With 21 mentally ill children, four coaches, and two nurses, the Center for the Mentally Handicapped was founded in 1998 in the local Kamma Hostel. The school was thereafter relocated to the local NNP Quarters in the year 2000. Mrs. Vanajakumari administers a total of 26 people, including 122 children, Principal-1, D.M.R. Instructors-5, Assistant Teachers-7, Accountant-1, Nanny-6, and Chef-1.

The Center’s Inspiration: The corporation’s manager and founder, Mrs. Vanajakumari, is a physiotherapy instructor. The collector was so astounded by her intelligence that he offered her an incentive present. With that motivation, she founded this charity to serve mentally ill children and with the support of family members. Dr. Smt. Andhra Jyoti, Sarojini, Chakradharrao, Adi Shankarrao, and Vijaya Nirmala, in particular, helped to find this organization. Shri Rajendra Prasad, a doctor at Mamata Hospital, and Sunil Kumar, an orthopedic surgeon, are now giving medical help to the organization.

School Activities: This facility provides special education, physiotherapy, switch therapy, and vocational training to children with mental problems. Cultural activities are a part of education.

Curriculum programs: Self-help, motor school, color identification, coin detection, time detection, and weight detection are all part of the curriculum. In Ocean, teach how to manufacture candle-making coverings. In the Janmabhoomi program in 1998, the then Collector Giridhar presented diplomas to 1200 people with impairments.

Co-curricular activities: Yoga, singing, music, exercises, dance, art and textures, and stitching are among the co-curricular activities taught in this program.

Following children were the part of the Theressa  Mental Disability Center, Now leading a normal and happy life:

•  Kapil Nikhil, a student with moderate dementia, enrolled in the training institution in 2003. He is presently enjoying a happy life working in his bookbinding store thanks to the vocational training provided by the organization.
•  Prabhu, who came to our training facility as a disabled student, is presently pursuing an engineering degree to complete the physiotherapy training we obtained.
•  Nagraj is presently driving his car and speaking extremely well with the switching treatment we offered him.
•  In the year 2000, a kid called Santosh was diagnosed with dementia at our school. He had the physiotherapy we recommended, as well as the walk-and-switch treatment. He is presently employed as a salesperson at a clothes shop. Another 30 pupils are trained at the facility and can live a regular life.
• In the 2015 Special Olympics for the Disabled, four pupils from the center earned gold, six silver, and six bronze medals. The district received 20 medals. In the state-level championships conducted in Vijayawada, ten participants gained goals and medals. Silver medals were awarded to all four athletes. They were all handed certificates as well.

Social Activities:

• She provides free meals every day to street dwellers, nomads, differently-abled and sick people, seasonal wage earners, outpatients, attendees of the inpatients treated in government hospitals, and the starving general public.
• Vanaja Kumari has performed many social activities in the village such as providing food to the Old aged and Orphan Children, Mineral water to the Villagers.
• Vanaja Kumari has participated in a variety of community activities in the village, supplying meals to the elderly and orphan children, as well as delivering mineral water to the villagers.
• She fights for the people’s concerns and the welfare of the people, and many of the colony’s development plans have been a resounding success as a result of his efforts.
• Vanaja Kumari created awareness among parents about the importance of education and highlighted the benefits being provided by the Government to take this education to their doorstep.
• Grants are raised, and financial support is offered to people who aspire to pursue a higher level of educational achievement.
• Obtaining money from the government and putting them to use for the growth of public schools as well as the resolution of tense situations in the classroom.

Services rendered during the covid-19 Pandemic:

• Vanaja Kumari came forward to help the needy who have been affected by the lockdown and distributed vegetables and fruits to the villagers, needy ones, and Municipality workers by following the precautions.
• Food item packets for drivers and migrant laborers were distributed whose livelihood has been affected during this lockdown period. Vanaja Kumari came forward with humanity to help those in dire straits during the corona and provide financial assistance to the people who are affected by the lockdown.
• She apportioned Masks, Sanitizers, and food to the poor and also contributed to them financially.
• To spread awareness about social distancing and following precautionary measures to prevent the Epidemic Corona an awareness program has been conducted.
• As part of the drive to eradicate the corona epidemic, Sodium hypochlorite solution was sprayed all over the village for the safety of the village.
• Vanaja Kumari also provided free masks and sanitizers to people with corona deficiency symptoms at the hospital.
• The Covid Immunization Drive was organized in response to Prime Minister Modi’s plea order to increase awareness among the general population about the need of acquiring a free corona vaccination.

Biography of Mrs. Paruchuri Vanaja Kumari

Paruchuri Vanaja Kumari was born on August 15, 1956, as the second daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Vasireddy Koteshwara Rao and Kamalamba of an Agricultural family. She has one elder sister and four younger sisters. Their native village is Tummapudi, Duggirala Mandal, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh.

Vanaja Kumari received her education at Chiluvoor. He attended Venkatasubbaiah Gary’s school in Katragadda, Chiluvuru village, until the seventh grade. Completed 8th and 9th grade in Revendrapadu Government School. He then learned to knit textures at home.

She married Vanampari Nageswara Rao of Mudigonda Mandal, Khammam District, on May 3, 1974. The couple landed in Khammam after marriage. They had two children.

Parvati from Vijayawada established a Mental development facility in Khammam in 1991. The mental institution, which began with six children, now houses 104 children.

In 1998, Commissioner of Disability and Welfare Sundaravadanam and Deputy Director Z.V. Paruchuri Vanaja Kumari founded the Theresa Mental Disability Center at the suggestion of Prasad and with the assistance of the then-Collector Giridhar.

The Kamma Mahajana Sangham celebrated the 75th Diamond Jubilee and was awarded Paruchuri Vanaja Kumari for their service in Khammam in 2006.

Former Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu and his spouse were honored at a ceremony held by the Memorial Trust to acknowledge the contributions of Paruchuri Vanajakumari of the Khammam district.

Paruchuri Vanaja Kumari was born on August 15, 1956, as the second daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Vasireddy Koteshwara Rao and Kamalamba of an Agricultural family. She has one elder sister and four younger sisters. Their native village is Tummapudi, Duggirala Mandal, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh.

Vanaja Kumari received her education at Chiluvoor. He attended Venkatasubbaiah Gary’s school in Katragadda, Chiluvuru village, until the seventh grade. Completed 8th and 9th grade in Revendrapadu Government School. He then learned to knit textures at home.

She married Vanampari Nageswara Rao of Mudigonda Mandal, Khammam District, on May 3, 1974. The couple landed in Khammam after marriage. They had two children.

Parvati from Vijayawada established a Mental development facility in Khammam in 1991. The mental institution, which began with six children, now houses 104 children.

In 1998, Commissioner of Disability and Welfare Sundaravadanam and Deputy Director Z.V. Paruchuri Vanaja Kumari founded the Theresa Mental Disability Center at the suggestion of Prasad and with the assistance of the then-Collector Giridhar.

The Kamma Mahajana Sangham celebrated the 75th Diamond Jubilee and was awarded Paruchuri Vanaja Kumari for their service in Khammam in 2006.

Former Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu and his spouse were honored at a ceremony held by the Memorial Trust to acknowledge the contributions of Paruchuri Vanajakumari of the Khammam district.