About

Vizhiththezhu is a charity organization (Registered Trust) started in 2008 with the objective of supporting the under privileged people to improve their lifestyle. The organization localized its operation in Chennai. In 2013 Vizhiththezhu was awarded the contract of managing the shelter home project of the Corporation of Chennai. Vizhiththezhu received its Memorandum of Understanding signed in July and was handed the shelter in Padavattamman Koil street, Chintadripet.

Vizhiththezhu named its shelter home as Aravanaipagam as it would more appealing for the people of the community and would be more comforting for the people who would wish to occupy the home.

DEFINITION FOR HOMELESS PERESONS

Person who do not have a house, either self-owned or rented, but instead live and sleep on pavements, at parks, railway stations and places of worship, outside shops and factories, at constructions sites, under bridges, in Hume pipes and other places under the open sky or places unfit for human habitation. This also includes people who live in temporary structures without walls, under plastic sheets or thatched roofs on pavements, parks or other common spaces.

Name	Aravanaipagam
Zone	5
Division	14
Ward	62
Address	Corporation Building, Padavatamman Koil Street, Chintadripet, Chennai – 600002. (Opposite to Cox Colony