The Voluntary Health Services

The Voluntary Health Services hospital in Chennai received support from the Indian subsidiary of the AUMUND Group of companies for the first time in 2021, as emergency aid during the Covid pandemic, and donations were later provided for the children’s ward. The hospital was founded back in the late 1950s with the aim of providing first-class specialist health care for less fortunate sections of the population. This is still the objective today, as confirmed by the director of the hospital and his team during our visit in March 2023. The hospital’s mission statement confirms, “Our team at VHS are fully committed to fulfilling the criteria of accessibility, affordability and availability.”

The logical combination of education and health projects has always been at the core of our philosophy. This led to us developing an idea together during our visit, and a scholarship programme for trainee nurses was created. The young women all come from underprivileged backgrounds, and this opportunity to qualify in a first-class hospital opens doors to a new life for them and their families.

We had the pleasure of meeting our first ten scholarship recipients in person at a celebratory ceremony at the VHS MACCON Nursing College in November 2024. Their life stories deeply moved us, and so we decided to extend the funding to all qualifications offered at the college and to give more young women the opportunity for high-quality training each year.