 YWCA
of Kottayam
YWCA of Kottayam was inaugurated on 8th June 1933 by Miss.
Emily Kiniard, daughter of Lady Kiniard, the founder of
World YWCA movement. Its memorandum was registered under
section 28 Act XII 1955. YWCA Kottayam brought women of
Kottayam into the main stream of civic life creating an
enabling environment for their involvement in the well
being of society at large.
In 1943, Kottayam YWCA established a hostel in a rented
building which was later bought by the YWCA in 1947.
This hostel was launched to meet the requirement of
safe housing for adolescent girls and women moving out
of their homes for education and employment. In 1952,
Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, the then Health Minister and the
only woman Christian member of the first cabinet of
Independent India, laid the foundation stone of a hall
for members to assemble. This was completed by 1953.
A new Silver Jubilee Hostel building was inaugurated
in 1960 by The Most Rev. Philipose Mar Chrysostom, the
Marthoma Metropolitan. A new hostel building, the foundation
stone of which was laid in 1972 was soon completed and
was inaugurated subsequently by President of National
YWCA, Smt. Beril Sreehari.
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Young
Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) is a global
movement that started way back in 1855 as a Prayer Circle
in London, i.e., much before the concept of ‘Global
Village – Our Common Future’ emerged in the
late 1980s. Soon after, the Prayer Circle became a YWCA
– Young Women’s Christian Association which
came to be known as World YWCA - A Global Movement.
