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AMHA (Association for Mentally Handicapped Adults
- 09 Sep / 2024
AMHA (Association for Mentally Handicapped Adults) is a home to 60 individuals with mental challenges, including 30 residents in Karyattukara, Thrissur. They provide free education, food, accommodation, medical care, and other essential services of the patients or inmates. About 95% of the beneficiaries come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Among students, twelve are orphans. This centre provides transporting facility for day scholar students. Majority of them are diagnosed with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities, including conditions like Down syndrome, microcephaly, cerebral palsy, autism, Marfan syndrome, and Fragile X syndrome. AMHA also provide vocational training to aid in their rehabilitation.