About Us

Carmal Matha Shanthi Bhavan based in Wayanad, Kerala is a sanctuary for the children, victimized by crime and crisis, begging on the streets and slowly getting into criminal activities. Thousands of Children on the streets often face a life of crime and crisis. These children need the security of shelter, food, clothing, medical care and education. Carmal Matha Shanthi Bhavan under the auspices of the Carmal Matha Trust was born out of a desire to help the small orphans who are often leading a dejected life.

Inspired by a divine institution and the overpowering feeling that the little children who walk the streets, needed their rightful place in this society, Bro. Joy Daniel founded the Carmal Matha Shanthi Bhavan - a place for the destitute in year 1995 at Mundoor in Trichur District with a few kids. Br. Joy who visited many railway stations in South India, the hubs of street children found that it was not just poverty that these kids were up against, but the neglect and the callousness of the society and also that they needed a complete change in their life style to be brought to the mainstream of the society. These children deserved a chance to lead a normal life like other children with a shelter over their head and a sense of belonging in their hearts to transform them into responsible adults!

It was the painstaking efforts of Br. Joy that led to the inception of the Carmal Matha Shanthi Bhavan. Later on another shelter was founded in Chundale, Wayanad [District] in a half acre plot at in the up-hills of Western Ghats on the Calicut Mysore, Bangalore National highway [NH 212] in a serene and picturesque environment. A good number of children between the age group 3 and 18 from Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala are housed in this shelter. Irrespective of their caste or religion, they stay, dream and pray at this home for a better tomorrow. Besides providing for food, education and shelter the Shanthi Bhavan also instills character and morals to help them grow, learn and eventually become independent.

Till now the center has been able to rehabilitate thousands of kids. Carmal Matha Shanthi Bhavan has left no stone unturned to return back the smile they had lost! The orphaned children after coming here have started to relive their lives leaving behind their horrific past and they have begun to learn to tread forward with confidence and dignity. They live here as a member of a single family, where everyone is treated on equal terms.

Now... we are filling a need... but a great need nonetheless…Join hands with us to give these children a home, an education, food, medicines, clothes, a hope and a future.
Come, help us, and join us in our endeavor to rehabilitate these children!!