ViswaSanthi Foundation is a non-profit organization established by actor

Mohanlal Mohanlal Viswanathan (born 21 May 1960), known mononymously as Mohanlal, is an Indian actor, film producer, playback singer, film distributor, and director who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema besides also having sporadically app ...

in the names of his parents Viswanathan and Santhakumari in 2015. It is registered as a Section-8 Company of the

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, under the name ViswaSanthi Development Foundation. The foundation was started with the objective of creating and delivering high impact and focused programs to the under privileged sections of the society in the areas of health care and education.

Activities

In 2018, Mohanlal met the Prime Minister of India

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and briefed about the foundation's social initiatives. The foundation has sent relief materials to different parts of

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during

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and 2019 Kerala floods including new house to the family of a flood rescue operator and children's education for one of the victims. They launched the ''Amrita-ViswaSanthi Health Care'' project to help poor children suffering from heart ailments and meet their

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expenses in

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. During

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, the foundation has donated PPE kits and

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s to healthcare workers and police officials in

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and laptops, tablets and television sets for schools across Kerala. The foundation donates an

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, KARMI-Bot, for the

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, which helps to dispense food, medicine, collect the trash left away by

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patients, perform

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and enable video call between the doctors and patients. In May 2021, the foundation has provided beds with oxygen and ventilator support and portable X-ray machines to various hospitals in Kerala. They also provide support for the installation of Oxygen pipeline to two wards and

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ward of Government Medical College, Ernakulam. The foundation executes this 1.5 crore project with EY Global Delivery Services and

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References

External links

Official website
{{Mohanlal Foundations based in India Non-profit organisations based in India Organizations established in 2015 Organisations based in Kochi Mohanlal 2015 establishments in Kerala