Madaplathuruth is a village of about 15,000 inhabitants located in the State of Kerala, in southwestern India. The village is about 40 km from the largest urban settlement in Kochi, a city of about 600,000 inhabitants. The state capital is Trivandrum.
The Franciscan Sisters of St. Elizabeth arrived in this area in 1994 and, starting from nothing, bought a house to make their convent and then, following their mission to reach out to the poor, started various projects to give support to the people of Madaplathuruth village and neighboring villages.
In 2000 Don Enzo Capitani, with some other volunteers from “Ceis”, created his first international project.
Since then, thanks to a constant word of mouth and the commitment of the volunteers who have experienced first hand the Indian experience, in all these years the association raised more than 100,000 euros, (plus the economic contributions that are received each year for the Indian children from adoptive families in Italy).
These funds are used for urgent health care costs, education, job training, construction of houses.
Each year volunteers collect money for food,  school stuff for the kids, clothes, umbrellas, bags for food distribution, medical expenses, help for education of the kids and so on.

Here are some pics of the village, quality is a little bad due to the use of an old camera.