To work with indigent communities to end up socio-economic deprivation and to enable them for health, education and socio-economic upliftment.
Rural communities live together in harmony and just share the resources for collective selfreliance and harmonious life.
Dr. K. JOTHIMONY, who was raised in a low-income farming family, worked hard and achieved a university rank in his Masters of Chemistry and graduated from IIT Madras with a doctorate in organometallics. He then joined ONGC as an executive scientist and worked in Mumbai, Assam, Rajasthan and Chennai. After years of effort and success in his personal career, the inner desire to improve the socio-economically underprivileged community drove him to form the Vidiyel Trust in 1997 and started his services to community development and charity with his own fund. He voluntarily retired from ONGC in 2003 and worked as a consultant for American Oil and Gas Exploration companies in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Oman, Malaysia, Iran, Brunei, Africa and Myanmar till 2016, which gave him good exposure to socio-economic conditions around the world. Later, he dedicated himself to the socio-economic Development of the underprivileged communities with his own fund and aid from external funding agencies and continues to achieve the planned goals in Southern part of Tamilnadu, India.
Vidiyel Trust has landed into the Silver Jubilee year, when reviewing the past developmental events, it’s surprising to see the achieved milestones but not content with this situation, we speculate about the action needed to accomplish the unfulfilled results. In the midst of both successes and failures, we have been travelling consistently to work with the women, children and farmers to empower them.
Vidiyel Trust was formed on 4" November 1997 by a team of dedicated and committed beings envisaging the development of the people in need. The organisation name “Vidiyel” connotes ‘dawn’ in Tamil, the objective is to bring an institutional change for people’s development in the areas of education, health, agriculture and industry. The organisation being led by Dr. K. Jothimony, a Scientist voluntarily retired from ONGC to serve the underprivileged people in Vilathikulam area, has a social vision of uplifting the ‘downtrodden communities and striving to succeed in this task.
