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.

“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.”

We Jyothirgamaya Foundation feel proud and happy to inform you all that one of our student, MUBASHIRA has passed “Kerala High Court” assistant exam during May,2025. She has been ranked SECOND under blind/ low vision category. She attended our empowerment training program for the Blind and she excelled in all skills and was a role model to everyone.

We wish her a bright future in all her endeavors.

TIFFY-TOFFY Kindergarten, one of the initiative of Jyothirgamaya Foundation was inaugurated on the auspicious occasion of 79th Independence Day. This kindergarten was initiated by our Founder and Co-Founder with the vision of providing activity based learning and strong educational base to children from under privileged background. This unique name TIFFY-TOFFY was coined by our Co-Founder General TPS Brar, father of our Founder Tiffany Brar and who is also our Trustee. TIFFY is the pet name of our Founder TIFFANY BRAR and TOFFY symbolising children’s ever last loving for sweets and toffees.
The eminent Congress Party leader MR. K.MURALEEDHARAN, former Lok Sabha member gave the inaugural address. He took time from his busy schedule to inaugurate our kindergarten and graced the occasion with his presence as our guest of honour. The other eminent guests were Mr. Vinoth Stepehen, a well known social worker, Mr. Arun Stepehen a national level sports coach and Ms. Shobha Viswanath, famous women entrepreneur and founder of Weavers Village. They have been travelling with Jyothirgamaya family with a big supportive hand in all our activities since the beginning.
On this occasion we would like to welcome our new kindergarten teachers Mrs. Lalitha Prasanam and Mrs. Sitara L Baskar who have played a vital role in spreading the message and bringing in children from rural areas. We sincerely thank our Administrator Mrs. Aruna PS for her hard work and effort.
Also it is our pleasure to thank our Supervisor Mrs. Vinitha for her culinary skill, expertise and for arranging a delicious Onam sadhya for all our students. We would like to thank the staff members of VINITHA KITCHEN for their hard work and preparing this delicious meal for all of us.
We thank all the parents for bringing their kids for the inaugural event and making this event a grant success. We also would like to thank our staff member Mr. Lalukurup for enabling us to connect with our chief guest MR.K. MURALEEDHARAN and inviting him to our school inauguration.
With all of your blessings and support this inaugural event was a huge hit. We trust this support and association would carry on everlastingly in empowering and teaching the little kids.

Inauguration of Tiffy-Toffy Kindergarten on August 15th, 2025

Tiffy Toffy Kindergarten – a Jyothirgamaya Foundation Initiative

We are thrilled to announce our new venture Tiffy Toffy Kindergarten, dedicated to providing quality education for Poor and underprivileged kids.

Inauguration Date: August 15

All are welcome to join us and celebrate this new beginning!

Together, let’s light the path to a brighter future for our children.