About Sevasadanam School

Sevasadanam (Home of Service) School, a non-profit day and residential school, helps and trains mentally retarded children and adults lead productive lives as accomplished, responsible individuals where self-help skills, vocational training and community integration is taught in a nurturing environment.

Sevasadanam School began in 1989 by Dr. G. Vasanthamma, a leading physician in the town of Madhira. Dr. Vasanthamma, a social entrepreneur, wanted to provide quality services for individuals with mental retardation since there were no special schools catering to their needs. She purchased land, built school buildings and worked tirelessly to combat the stigma that exists for this disability and helped integrate these individuals into the community. Dr. Vasanthamma wanted to emulate her experience with Sevasadanam and establish similar schools in the neighboring towns and expand services to the needy individuals.

Dr. Vasanthamma's long-held belief of the importance of humanity, empathy, and love and service to the disabled is both respected and manifested by each individual working at Sevasadanam. Teachers and special educators at the school are trained at the National Institute of Mentally Handicapped (NIMH) Secundrabad, and are fiercely committed to the principles of Sevasadanam School.

Teachers work closely with each individual overseeing extra-curricular activities, eating lunch together, offering a guiding hand or improving self-help skills and self-reliance - Sevasadanam teachers truly know their students.

It is precisely this bond that helps our faculty - in partnership with parents - gently move every individual's initial dependence on family and teachers toward a self-reliance that coincides with his level of maturity.