Founder : Dr.R.T.Rajan

Founder's Message

Let us Enable our Planet, the land of living, to be livable for all

Welcome to Solai Program

Social Life Animation India (SOLAI) movement is the result of a dream to realise its mission, born out of learnings in different social movements. The underlying philosophy of its programme is

"Let us nurture the human in every person

Protect and Preserve Mother Earth

Within the feminine, the human is not nurtured

Nurturing is empowering; and enriching feminism"

R.T.Rajan, the Founder of SOLAI movement worked in the Boodhan movement with Acharya Vinoba Bhave as a volunteer in the years 1956/57. Later he involved in the Periyar EVR's Self Respect movement and contributed articles to the revolutionary Poet Barathidasan's "Kuyil" weekly in 1959. The impact of the movements inculcated in him the ideals of Gandhiji, Tolstoy and the great reformer EVR. As a versatile writer he has contributed articles to a number of magazines on social themes. He expressed his views about 'Respect and reverence of Life and Earth in the magazine entitled "Kootturavu" in the section 'Lo, my younger sister' (Thangaikku) every month from 1958-67.

After 25 years of experience in rural Development experiments of Gandhigram, Marthandam YMCA and RUHSA of Christian Medical college & Hospital Vellore, which enriched him with the thoughts of Gandhian economist Dr. J.C.Kumarappa, Dr. Spencer Hatch and Dr. Margaret Sanger, he felt strongly to start a movement called Social Life Animation India (SOLAI) in the year 1981. 'Solai' means, in Tamil, Grove or Green prosperity.