Mariasadanam is an unique centre for psycho- social rehabilitation, promoted and managed by Mr. and Mrs. Santhosh Joseph in Pala, Kottayam Dist, Kerala, India. This centre is situated about 30 kms away from Kottayam. It accommodates around 280 destitute men, women and children who are mentally ill. Most inmates of Mariasadanam were abandoned by their families

• Completes 11 years of Service
  
  
•  1300 mentally ill persons retrieved from the street
   
• Promoter’s family living with the residents
  
  
• 280 male and female restdens living and separate accommodations facilities.
  
  
•  Around thousand joined with their families
  
  
• Hundreds returned back to their jobs
  
  
• Care for abandoned persons
  
  
• Recognition of talents and abilities
   
• Professional music and drama troupe
  
  
• Over 250 stage performances
  
  
• Public awareness programs by art troupe
  
  
• Entry in Limca Book of records 
  
  
• Unique system of treatment and rehabilitation
  
  
• Art forms as a major tool  for treatment