Bethania Rehabilitation Centre
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Bethania Rehabilitation Centre is a cetnre for the rehabilitation of the physically disabled women at Kumarapuram, Trivandrum, Kerala
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. The centre was started on June 1, 1988. The centre is managed by the Bethany Sisters (Bethany Madhom
Bethany Madhom
The Congregation of the Sisters of the Imitation of Christ - or Bethany Madhom is a congregation in the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. Bethany Madhom was founded by the Servant of God Archbishop Mar Ivanios in 1925 in the Malankara Orthodox Church...

)of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
The Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See...

. It is also aided by the Government of India. The objectives of the centre is to: promote community based rehabilitation, impart vocational training, provide residential facilities during training,train in self-employment, and provide corrective physiotherapy. At present nearly 50 physically disabled women of 15-30 age group are getting training in cutting & tailoring, typewriting & short-hand, book binding, candle making, poultry farming, bee keeping, rabbit rearing, handicrafts, hoticulture and home management.

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Brochure of Bethania
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