Dhyana Ashram

Dhanam, the initiative of Fr.Jerry Rosario, SJ (MDU) is dedicated to the promotion of human donation - donation of blood, eyes and other tissue; of organs for transplant and the whole body for medical/scientific research. A Public Charitable Trust - the Dhanam Trust - was registered only on 9 Feb 2009 with Fr Provincial (of the Madurai Jesuit Province) as the chairperson and Fr Jerry Rosario as the Executive Director. It was officially launched as a Jesuit Ministry on Independence Day 15 Aug - that year with Fr.M. Devadoss, SJ, the then Provincial, symbolically piercing a heart - shaped balloon to inaugurate this ministry to promote human donations. Early 1993, Fr Peter Hans Kolvenbach SJ, the then Jesuit Superior General, wrote a letter to all Major Superiors on extradinary Healthcare in which he informed that Jesuits may draw up and carry with them a legally valid document which donates their vital organs, in case of death, to someone in need.They may be if they wish donate their body for scientific purposes after death. Thereupon Fr Jerry carried the idea with him wherever he went. Superstitions and skepticism painstakingly overcome-person by person, camp after camp-the dint was beginning to be felt. Each day the victory belonged to the hero or heroine of the day- some one who gave blood, some one who pledged organs , some other who designed a Living Will to donate the entire body for medical research. Fr Jerry signed his own Living Will in 1995. Blood is the very source of life that sustains every human being - defying differences of caste and religion. Again, the red of the blood - 1common to every human being - is blind to gender, religion or caste; blind to the giving of blood and the receiving of blood. Once we found suitable donors we will let you know at the earliest.