The Kerala State Handicapped Persons’ Welfare Corporation is a public sector undertaking under the State Government established in 1979 with its Head Office at Poojappura, Thiruvananthapuram.  The main aims and objects of the Company are to formulate, to promote and implement many schemes aimed at the rehabilitation or improvement of the living conditions of the visually impaired, the deaf and dumb, the orthopeadically handicapped and mentally retarded persons and to provide financial/technical assistance to physically disabled persons, group of such persons and organizations engaged in activities on the rehabilitation and welfare of handicapped persons.