The activities and achievements of the Jacob's Care Center (JCC) as presented in this 2019-2020 Annual Report. JCC is the NGO founded by a few service minded people 11 years ago with a prime goal of extending helping hands and shelters for neglected and abandoned elders in and around Coimbatore. Jacob's Care Center is being involved in interventions for the welfare projects for the betterment of under nourished children, destitute women and operate de-addiction centres for drug addict in various villages in Madukkarai and Pollachi Taluk of Coimbatore district and Chinnasalem and Kallakuruchi of Villupuram district.
JCC Senior Citizens Home was started to address the shelter and nutrition needs of destitute senior citizens since 2008. At present the home has 25 elders in Chettipalayam of Madukkarai Taluk at Coimbatore District. JCC has been able to create conducive environments where the aged get a chance to engage with other people of their own aged people and also pursue a range of interest related activities.
Children belonging to underprivileged community are no showing academic progress at school. In order to address the problem among needy children, JCC has been running supplementary centres at Chinna Salem of Kallakurichi in the identified areas benefiting near about 30 children.
JCC operates a Family Counselling Centre in Kallakurichi ( recently bifurcated from Villupuram District). Family Counselling Centre functioning with the focus on counselling on counselling on the aspects
The women approaching our counselling centre often approach for our support due to excessive alcoholism of their husband. Hence we felt our dire necessity for awareness and rehabilitation centre for addicts. Our awareness programme components are divided into 3 categories.