Karunai Illam Trust is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of its first cookbook Suvai - Recipes from our Illam kitchen.
This cookbook comes after months of planning and behind the scenes work by our team based in India, Australia and New Zealand. It contains exciting, easy to make...
Hello to our Wellington Supporters, we are after good quality, pre-loved women’s clothes.
The nights are getting longer, the temperature is dropping and before we know it, winter will be upon us!
Our pre-loved clothing sales have been such a hit, we are doing it...
The artists are contributors to our Illam founded by Wellingtonian Jean Watson. Ten percent of the proceeds of exhibition sales will go to the Illam children.
Elizabeth Harcourt
Mixed media on found object canvases
Sankar Ramasamy
Urban sketches in watercolour
Margaret-Anne...
Come and meet Mr Raghavan Thangasamy the genial brain and force behind our partner DHAN’s educational services. Mr Raghavan affectionately called Ragi Sir by children and colleagues, is the Correspondent of the DHAN Karunai kindergarten and primary school in Nilakottai. This affordable...
Children and staff at the DHAN Karunai School honoured Mrs Anbu (Illam in-charge) and Ms Prema (Illam staff member) for their care and dedicated service to Haris Prasath, our Illam student who recently underwent major heart surgery. The school also chose to donate money towards Haris’s...
Haris joined the Illam in 2019 recommended by one of the Kalanjiyams (self-help groups). In January he became ill and was referred to the government hospital in Madurai where he was diagnosed with a hole in his heart. As luck would have it, a free medical camp for children with heart...