Navathy Home Project
Philipose Mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma Metropolitan completed 90 years on April 27, 2008. As part of the celebration Mar Thoma Church devised a project, Navathy Home Project, to support and enable 1500 families in India, irrespective of cast, creed or religion, to build a home of their own. (Malayalam - navathy – ninetieth anniversary). Cost of each home was Rs.60,000. (US$1400). Each house consisted of a sit out, a drawing room, a bed room, a kitchen, a dining room and a toilet. Mar Thoma Church members donated so much that the project was a great success, that it extended from India up to Mexico.
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