About Us

  • Founded in 1999 by a group of like minded friends
  • All trustees are volunteers
  • Minimum administrative costs/salaries received from Trust Funds
  • Optimum utilization of donations for projects

OUR JOURNEY

We started our first project in April 1999 by giving Interest free loans for school fees and women run micro enterprises. Most of the borrowers availed loans to pay school fees for their children studying in private schools.

We also started Tuition centers for students of class 6 at two private schools and one Corporation School in December 1999.

We were not satisfied with the exam oriented system of education. A need to carry out a project connected with primary education for under privileged children and to focus on young children of an impressionable age was felt by the SRCT trustees.

The Trustees realized the enormous scope to reach out to underprivileged children studying in Corporation schools and make a significant difference to the quality of education provided to them. The result was the introduction of the Montessori Method of Instruction.

OUR EXPERIENCE

Quality primary education boosts the self esteem and self confidence of these children who will turn out to be disciplined, law abiding and responsible citizens. 

Good qualities are inculcated in the children and extended through them to their homes. Discernible transformation in children can be seen within a very short time Personal hygiene in the children and also in their families improved vastly. 

The compassion and dedication of our teachers who are all Montessori trained, proves to be a balm to these children who otherwise had to survive in a harsh environment. The values learnt under the Montessori Method get internalized because of the impressionable age of the child when these values are exposed and the nature of the system.

Therefore the child exhibits the same values in other environments like home, neighborhood and society at large too.

TRUSTEES

Mrs. Padmini Gopalan,
Founder Trustee

She has always been serving the cause of the downtrodden people of the society, especially in educating the children. She began her life as a simple and humble housewife. Being the grand daughter of erstwhile ‘Silver Tongue’ Srinivasa Sastri , Mrs.Padmini Gopalan was invariably drawn towards providing ‘quality’ education to the underprivileged children of the society. Initially she was assisting a handful of such children in her house. Then she brought into being a tuition centre in Mankollai of Mylapore, Chennai a locality where slum-dwellers live. The sufferings of the hapless people who were getting loans for heavy interest to pay the school fees of their children caused great concern in Padmini. And, she introduced Micro Credit System for giving the poor people small loans to pay the educational fees of their children.

Dr.K. Bharathi Chandru

Position: President

Served as a Professor of History in Pachaiyappas College for 30 years. She is a well-known Tamil Writer, published a short story collection and two novels. She has written a few articles on Montessori Education which was published in leading newspapers. She has also written a monograph on writer R.Chudamani which was published by Sahitya Academy in their Literary Series. She was given “Sister Nivedita Award” by Ulundurpet Sarada Ashram for her social services Radhika Sasankh, Secretary, Counseling Psychologist by profession, she has been associated with the trust for more than 20 years.

Served as a Professor of History in Pachaiyappas College for...

Dr.K. Bharathi Chandru

President

Mrs.Radhika Sasankh

Position: Secretary

Counseling Psychologist by profession, she has been associated with the trust for more than 20 years.

Counseling Psychologist by profession, she has been associated with the...

Mrs.Radhika Sasankh

Secretary

Mrs. Jayanthi Gopinath

Education: MA (Eng Literature) Profession: Film. Exhibition/Real Estate.

Education: MA (Eng Literature) Profession: Film. Exhibition/Real Estate.

Mrs. Jayanthi Gopinath

Mrs.Jayanthi Karthikeyan

Position: Treasurer

Microbiology & Biochemistry graduate from Bombay University. Been associated with SRCT for over 20 years. Designed, developed and maintained payroll software for a Corporate. Coordinator for DOS Dal oil and sugar project, a volunteering programme of Manava Seva Dharma Samvardhani Trust since 1998.

Microbiology & Biochemistry graduate from Bombay University. Been associated with...

Mrs.Jayanthi Karthikeyan

Treasurer

Mrs.Sundari Jayaraman

Aged 79, home maker. Have 40+ years of experience in the field of social work. Have been an active member with Vishranthi (Old Age Home for Destitute Women) & Monday Charity Club for the past 40 years. Have been a Trustee with Sri Ramacharan Trust for the past 20+ years. Author with short stories published in various Tamil magazines like Kalaimagal, Mangai etc.

Aged 79, home maker. Have 40+ years of experience in...

Mrs.Sundari Jayaraman

Mrs. Vidya C Ramakrishnan

Education -B.com, LLB. 15 yrs of experience in HR recruitment and training soft skills . Since past 15 years involved with Sai charan old age home taking care of old people and palliative care etc as Executive director of the Trust.

Education -B.com, LLB. 15 yrs of experience in HR recruitment...

Mrs. Vidya C Ramakrishnan

Co-ordinators

Mrs. Sudha Gandekar

Position: Co-ordinator
Categories: Co-ordinator

She aged 53, She has 17 years of Experience in the field of Montessori. She was an honorary secretary of the Indian Montessori Centre, Tamil Nadu chapter for over 6 years; she headed the school started by CADD Centre for 5 years. Has worked with Kalvi Trust, another NGO serving the cause of spreading Montessori education.

She aged 53, She has 17 years of Experience in...

Mrs. Sudha Gandekar

Co-ordinator