Our staff
The Founders: Albert & Laly PJ with kids, Isaac and Jonathan
The Context
Drug and alcohol use may start for various reasons to satisfy one's curiosity... a resort to escape from stress... or even the result of peer pressure. However, once an individual is hooked onto it, the result is the same bondage to addiction and an unsatisfied life!
Addiction binds a person's potential from being the best that they can be. Their money, energy and time revolve around satisfying the craving of their next shot of intoxicant. Like a chained prisoner, addiction weighs down the individual. Unable to free themselves, they wallow in self pity and helplessness, using the substance that ruined their lives to comfort them, once again leading to a vicious circle that costs them all their life.
Who we are?
Abhayam serves as a rehabilitation platform to addicts who truly find comfort and make their lives count! It's a place where men and women can get help from alcohol and drug addiction.
Our Core Values
- Hope
- Family
- Responsibility
- Respect
- Integrity
Our Board Members
- Dr. Sony Baboo - Chairman
- Mr. Albert P.J. - Executive Director
- Mrs. Laly Albert - Secretary
- Dr. Philcy Philip - Treasurer
- Mr. Pradeep Manohar - Treasurer
- Rev. C.A. Benjamin - Member
- Mrs. Shobha Pradeep - Member
- Rev. Michael Jebaraj - Member
- Mr. Satish Varghese - Member
A Glance into What we do
Beginnings
Having lived a life of addiction for many years, Albert P J not only knows what hell such a life can be, but he now also knows the contrasting freedom that lies on the other side. Though those years of addiction are a nightmarish memory, they also gave rise to a beautiful dream Abhayam, a place of comfort.
Albert along with his wife, Laly, have been actively involved in working among the addicts in several cities for the past 15 years. Abhayam was started in 2007 aiming at not just understanding addiction among people, but it's priority was to understand people and take them on an incredible journey of recovery and finding freedom from the substances that consumes them.