a. Santhigramam- a mission to ensure a sustainable Green living culture among Santhigirians focusing on our campus and Purapuzha Gramapanchayat.

b. Santhimargham - a project of holistic growth and well-being of mind and body.

Objectives:

1. Supporting all Santhigirians to take an active role in practicing their civic responsibilities towards their fellow human beings and the environment
2. Helping students, faculty and local people reflect on environmental and human rights issues
3. Getting students to actively participate in environment protection and conservation activities in and around the college and their own neighbourhood by collaborating with the local people
4. Ensuring environment protection and sustainable living in Purapuzha gramapanchayat where Santhigiri College is located.

Santhigiri College has partnered with the Purapuzha grama panchayat administration and local hospitals and organisations where the college, its students and faculty have been systematically involved in collaborating with the local people to practice their civic responsibilities.

Context:

Environment protection and promoting human values have gained a tremendous momentum at the turn of the millennium with mounting concerns of natural resources being overused and polluted and the existence of human life being threatened with global poverty, diseases, terrorism and war.

Evidence of Success:

1. The College collaborates with the Local Self government department, Community Health Centre, Anganwadis and Other local government projects such as Haritha Keralam, Kerala Suchithwa Mission, Vayomithram, Snehitha Calling service, ICDS.
2. Santhigiri College is a safe abode for people with disabilities. The college itself was built around a rehabilitation centre to promote the welfare and rights of people living with disability. The rehabilitation centre and allied activities such as printing press, workshop, training centre etc are solely dedicated to empowering and promoting the rights of people living with disability.
3. Students have been systematically promoted at source waste management.
   Students are encouraged to manage waste at source in the college and the college has established green guidelines for all Santhigirians along with bio pots within the campus, segregated bins and signboards stating the same.
   Commencing with surveys, information was gathered on methods utilized by the locals, in conserving our environment such as scientific waste management, rain water harvesting, well recharging etc. which identified a need for the residents to be jolted into the reality of environment conservation
   NSS volunteers and MSW students were trained by the Haritha Keralam Project (Government of Kerala) and Green Living School to deliver training sessions for the local villagers to use bio pots and segregating waste at source for recycling and reusing purposes.
   In order to develop a model for waste management, biopots have been distributed in the local community in collaboration with Purapuzha Grama Panchayat administration and the local residents were provided training to utilise this.
   Follow up visits were conducted to support and encourage non users of the biopot to use the system.
   
4. Santhigirians are involved in collaborating with the local self-government in cleaning the local river bodies by removing waste and debris from the local water bodies in a project called ‘ee puzha ozhukatte’. Students actively support the maintenance of the local water bodies.
5. During the Kerala floods in 2018-2019, many lost their homes and were unable to meet their basic needs. In a mission to support the community, the students and faculty came together to build a house for a local resident who is also a non teaching faculty at the college whose house was destroyed in the floods.
6. Santhigiri College Associated with Chazhikattu Hospital, Thodupuzha in identifying the blood groups of all students and faculty and has created a blood donors forum to support local hospitals and people who require emergency blood.
7. Students are actively participating in the green maintenance of the college campus and actively plants the trees and maintains them. All the trees and plants that is seen in the campus have been planted by the students and faculty of the college.
8. The herbal garden, fruit garden , spices garden and flower garden promotes sustainable availability of much needed herbs and fruits for the use of students and faculty alike.
9. Students also actively take part in awareness building activities within the panchayat on subjects such AIDS awareness, Human Rights issues, environment friendly waste disposal, disability issues, women and gender issues, domestic violence etc
10. Community College, SCOPE.

The college envisions a brighter future for all and hence focuses on individuals who are better equipped to meet the challenges of a world that is moving faster in terms of technology and a fast paced life.

Objectives:

1. To ensure mind and body well being of all Santhigirians equipping them to deal with the changing life style patterns
2. To promote positive mental health among students and faculty to deal effectively with the stressful and challenging aspects of life.
3. To promote healthy style activities to address the issues of life style diseases that is seen increasing among youth
4. To ensure spiritual growth and development in line with the mission and vision of the college

PRACTISES

Yoga and Meditation

Every week at Santhigiri begins with a yoga and meditation session and provides our students and staff with an opportunity to practice yoga. Students and staff are encouraged to begin their day with yoga. A regular yoga practice can promote endurance, strength, calmness, flexibility, and well-being. These are essential skills to survive and thrive in the world.

Prayer

Every day commences with a prayer which is led by students from various classes.

Holistic Education

Holistic education is incorporated into the co curriculum which helps the students build essential life skills especially coping with stress, emotions, solving problems and additional skills to take them forward such as goal setting and creative thinking.

Mentoring Programme

Students receive individual mentoring twice a semester to promote their personal and professional development. The programme is brought under the Santhimargam as it supports students and faculty at opportunities for critical reflection and paves their way to better self awareness and personal enrichment helping them have a higher personal skills set to meet the requirements of their chosen career and personal lives.

GYM and sports complex

Basket ball, badminton and volley ball are games that are synonymous with the Santhigiri Sports Complex. There are friendly matches between students and faculty, between colleges to promote a great sportsman spirit along with ensuring regular exercise and fitness of the students and faculty alike.

Thursday Afternoon exploring one's interests and hobbies

Santhigiri Campus is vibrant on Thursday afternoons with students having the opportunity to explore activities of their interests. The college facilitates these through our various clubs and activity cells.

Staff away days and students outbound training programmes

The college encourages staff to bond and team build with the away day activities. The management ensures that staff has a day of enjoyment and enrichment at a designated location outside of the campus.