At Muzhucode, a Boys' Home is maintained by the Marthandam YMCA. It accommodates 50 school children who are either orphans or semi-orphans or deserted by their parents and wards. Such children due to lack of parental care, education, health and hygiene become dropouts, child labourers and delinquents. These type of children are often exploited by greedy industrialists engaging them in brick kilns, weaving, cottage industries as cashew, match stick making, broom making, printing etc. Children learn the habit of betel chewing, smoking and consume spurious liquor in their formative periods.
Realising the need to transform these unfortunate children into socially responsible citizens, the Home was initiated with a long-range vision.
TSUNAMI BOYS' HOME IN KANYAKUMARI
The Asian Tsunami 2004 shattered many families that made many as widows, orphans, semi-orphans, while the plight of the affected children were pathetic. To infuse confidence in the tender minds and provide a ray of hope in their lives the Tsunami Boys' Home functions in Kanyakumari with 25 children. The YMCA aims at the totalitarian development of the personality of the inmates.