On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Jyothirgamaya Foundation had a unique celebration. The first of its kind in the history of ten years of our inception. We celebrated the SHEROS -THE UNSUNG HEROS, the women from various marginalized communities and from economically weaker sections of the society who have gone through various challenges and difficulties in their lives.

We honoured them by listening to their unheard and untold stories and presenting them with a memento and a gift.

We were really moved to hear the stories of these women, how they fought the battles of various diseases, domestic violence, exploitation, poverty, degradation and much more.

We would like to express thanks to our sponsors Weavers Village, Bhoomika, Ramachandran Textiles for their kind assistance and for their boundless support. It is indeed an honor to have their collaboration in our program.

We sincerely show appreciation to each and everyone, volunteers, our team members for standing with us and making this event a great success.

We wish everyone a happy international women’s day. The theme for this year IWD is balancing our skills. We should balance our skills, empower each other and stay together as united women.

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2026

Our Founder was invited as one of the speakers for the “Kerala for all” tourism conclave arranged by the tourism department of the government of Kerala in collaboration with the Hindu.The conclave was a two day event regarding accessible travel and inclusive tourism for people with disabilities.

Our Founder highlighted on the accessibility needs of the visually challenged while travelling. For example Braille, key cards in hotel rooms, google home or alexa in hotel rooms inorder to give audio assistance for turning on and off the appliances and giving orientation.

Audio announcement systems in buses and head phones containing audio description in places like museum, temple and other touristic attractions, etc.

The session was taken as great insight by everyone.

On 22nd December 2025, Jyothirgamaya Foundation celebrated Christmas and New Year at TIFFY TOFFY kindergarten school. Our little kids actively participated, enjoyed, had fun, and received gifts on this wonderful occasion.

We had our guests, volunteers, blind friends, teaching and non teaching faculty who arranged for this simple celebration.

It was a simple, yet a mind-blowing event.

The Jyothirgamaya team had the pleasure and opportunity to visit the prestigious Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai in the month of December 2025. We visited the low vision clinic and found assistive devices tailored to the needs of people with low vision and visually challenged.

A special mention to the smart vision glasses which is of great use.

We also had a look at the computer training unit and interacted with the training faculty of the hospital.

Our Founder Tiffany Brar, spoke at the international conference held at Aravind Eye Hospital.She gave her suggestions and valuable feedback about the improvements to be made in the field of assistive technology for assistive devices to be cost effective, accessible,easy to maintain and light weight.She also gave guidance on giving hope to people who become blind in late life.

It was a memorable session and we wholeheartedly thank the Aravind Eye Hospital team for giving this opportunity.

The Jyothirgamaya Foundation team visited Thiagarajar College in Madurai where there was a mixed group of physically challenged and visually challenged students. Our founder and team members motivated the students and taught them about the various forms of access technology.

Our team gave them guidance on how to pursue their further career and opportunities after completion of their studies.

It was altogether a wonderful session. Our team thank the staff members and principal of Thiagarajar College for arranging this valuable event.

A program was conducted as a part of our pilot project food kit distribution in December 2025. We distributed food kits to eight visually challenged families and three under privileged families, the parents of our kindergarten students. We also had a small lunch gathering for the visually challenged and our kindergarten students. We thank all our supporters, volunteers, staff members and students for making this food kit distribution event a memorable one for Jyothirgamaya family.

Gardens can be a great place to cultivate a meaningful and entertaining learning experience for children. It would be able to offer children an opening to become skilled at the life cycle progression, by which plants are grown, as well as accountability, caretaking, self-determination, and environmental attentiveness.

At Tiify-Toffy Kindergarten school, we train our little kids in various gardening skills and how to harvest vegetables and fruits in a simple way. We thank our KG teachers for making this initiative and to develop harvesting knowledge in the minds of young ones.

This is yet adding another feather to the cap in the journey of Jyothirgamaya Foundation. An article was published in Deshabhimani Malayalam newspaper on October, 2025 regarding our aspiring and energetic blind student, Ratheesh.

Ratheesh, became blind late in life, almost in his late fifty’s. He had retinal diseases and he was losing his sight. When he started working as a bar manager, he was hit by a customer with an alcohol bottle, which took away his sight completely. This did not deter Ratheesh from climbing the ladder to success, so he went to various blind organizations in his district and through a well known visually impaired professor he came to know about our organization Jyothirgamaya.

He completed the “Empowerment Training Program for the Blind course” and he excelled in access technology and mobility training curriculum. He learnt to travel on his own using a white cane, by bus and train independently. Ratheesh learnt to use computer and other assistive devices, and has also joined the training in “Saksharatha Mission” and is now in the process of getting a job.

“Let’s welcome King Mahabali with open hearts and festive spirits”.

Yes, In the midst of our other new projects, we had our Onam Celebrations with the festive spirits of welcoming King Mahabali to our campus along with our young buds at TIFFY-TOFFY Kindergarten school. The little kids were happy with the Onam atha pookalam decorations and had a delightful lunch prepared by our kitchen team members. We had singing, dancing and little games especially prepared by them. They really had a wonderful enjoyable time.

We Jyothirgamaya family wish each and everyone a happy onam that fill all your heart with peace, prosperity, and happiness.”

Each year during Onam Celebrations we have food kit distributed to some of our visually challenged student families and other old student’s families whom we are associated with. They come from various places to accept the Onam kits which contains a variety of goodies and food items for Onam sadhya.

We thank our well wishers, sponsors, volunteers and staff members for making this event a memorable one.