About Us

Children facing intellectual developmental challenges find it difficult to conform to a regular school and classroom environment. Many of them need individual educational programs, customised therapy and personal care as they face various types of cognitive and psychomotor challenges. The guardians of these children depend on Special Schools for their learning, therapy and rehabilitation.  Chengannur Taluk in Alappuzha District of Kerala was in dire need of an institution to support the special children. 

It is from this need that Lions Educational Charitable Trust built its foundation with the vision of setting up LILLY for special needs students.  A group of determined Lion leaders and philanthropists came together and formed Lions Educational Charitable Trust in 2018. With a prodigious vision the Trust established LILLY Lions Special School in Chengannur, Kerala in 2018 with the aim of enabling the educational empowerment of students facing intellectual developmental challenges.

LILLY Vocational Training Centre was established in 2020 with the aim of enabling our students above the age of 18 years to grow as valuable citizens of the society by facilitating their economic empowerment through training programs tailored to their individual skill sets, aptitude and interest, through support in acquiring developmental skills and through assistance in rehabilitation and personal growth.

LILLY has now completed four successful years and the quality change we could make in the lives of the children and their families has been tremendous. It has become the hope and solace of many underprivileged families with special needs children.LILLY started with 4 students and 2 teachers in 2018 and has now grown to 70 students and 12 members of staff including Special Educators, Therapists, Consultant Psychologist, Officer Manager etc. The current evaluation of the situation shows that we will have to accommodate around 300 - 400 students within the next 3 years.