ABOUT

People's Action for Social Service (PASS) is a Non Governmental Organization situated in the world famous temple town 'Tirupati', in Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh, India. Registered under the State Act and Foreign Contributions Regulation Act (FCRA), it has been working for the all round development of the poor, the destitute, the aged, the handicapped, disadvantaged women and children since 1987.

In an effort to care for the mentally challenged children of the communities. PASS Manovikas opened a Special School in 2000 with 15 students.

The teachers have all been trained but the extraordinary thing about PASS Manovikas is the atmosphere of love which surrounds it and the extraordinary support it gets from its vibrant local support Association.The special school for the welfare of mentally challenged children provides boarding and lodging facility in the hostel attached to the school, maintaining the children with care. The present strength of the school is 110 from all over India.

We are providing behavior modification of the mentally handicapped through the services of physiotherapy, speech therapy, music therapy, yoga therapy and special education techniques by a team of interdisciplinary teachers, whom we approached by paying visits, who are employed in other noted institutions.

Our institution “PASS Manovikas” is on of the institutions, which is running a hostel for the mentally handicapped children all through the year in this part of the country. The advertisements in newspapers and T.V. channels have mentioned again and again that our institution has a hostel which is providing free boarding and lodging.Most of the parents will neglect their children and they left at public places like Temples, parks, railway stations etc. PASS Manovikas has been providing special education to the mentally handicapped children through the efforts of our well trained staff, who are wall qualified in special education.Training is provided to the children in vocational training like candle making, chalk-making, doll-making, paper-cup making, preparation of Vaseline and gardening etc.

A notable feature of our institution is “ours is the only organization in these parts of the country where we admit children in the school and/or hostel who are fully dependent on others because of their under-developed capacities and have always to be attended even for basic needs”. We provide for such needy children a life-long shelter and rehabilitation with residential staff attention and attention. We have children of such category. We feel happy and content with the lot.

If generous sponsors are forthcoming, we wish to support more mentally challenged children and extend the same facility to them. We have been making constant efforts in this direction also and we welcome such a gesture from humanitarian individuals, locally and from abroad.