Madurai school wins award

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MADURAI: Generally, the elderly are treated with deference but the effect of many structural changes on many fronts, combined with cultural ramifications, has resulted in equating old age with obsolescence. Moreover, assistance to elderly poor people is based on the assumption that the recipient must be truly incapacitated for work.

Under these conditions, to work for the cause and care of the disadvantaged elderly people and improve their quality of life is not an easy task.Help Age India, ever since its inception, has been doing this service with a mission statement to help the disadvantaged elderly.

On the occasion of International Day for Older Persons, the O.C.P.M. Girls Higher Secondary School, Madurai, has won the Samson Daniel Award of Help Age India for the contribution made to Help Age India among many schools at the national level.The award was presented at a function in New Delhi where Dulcie Ilango, Headmistress of the school, received it from Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Science and Technology.

Mrs. Dulcie Ilango said that it was the first time that the Madurai branch of Help Age India had won this award and complimented Radhakrishnan of Help Age India for his efforts to make this achievement possible. She was accompanied by Jenova Evangeline, PG Assistant, to receive the award.The school's budding star in ball badminton, R. Jasmine Sugirthabai, brought laurels to her school the same week by winning a silver medal at the 28th Sub Junior National Ball Badminton Championship held at Kaithal in Haryana.