The Delhi Cheshire Home established in 1957 at Kalkaji is at present located in one of the best residential areas of Delhi on approximately 3.5 acres of land on Okhla Road. This land was given by our late prime minister. Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru in 1970. The foundation stone was laid in the presence of the founder late Lord Leonard Cheshire. It is one of the biggest Cheshire Homes in the world with a capacity of 100 residents comprising physically and mentally disabled members of the society.

The main features of the Home comprise separate wards for men, women and children, the day care centre and a physiotherapy cum recreation centre. The children's ward donated by the American Express in 1976 was inaugurated by the President of India on November 16 of the same year.

The day care centre was donated by Sir Sobha Singh. This centre consists of a workshop, providing vocational training skills, both to the residents and disabled non-residents. The Centre has different sections imparting training in tailoring, bandage making, candle making, cane weaving, greeting cards, paper bags and other handicrafts. The aim of Day Care Centre is to enable those working there to learn and earn and above all, to give them a sense of purpose in life. The centre has produced high quality workmanship, and resultantly, are getting good orders from reputed firms and hotels.

The latest addition to the Delhi Cheshire Home is the new project- a physiotherapy cum recreation centre - which has been recently completed and has started providing facilities like physiotherapy, health care, recreation, library and gymnasium exercises designed for the disabled people. It has the unique honour of the founder, Late Lord Cheshire himself laying the foundation stone on March 15, 1991 and later being inaugurated by him on May 19, 1992 just before he left for his heavenly abode.

Since it is not possible to provide every disabled person, however deserving the case may be, a berth in the Home, the necessity for organizing family support service was felt. The Delhi Cheshire Home has given a good lead in this regard. In the last three years, excellent progress has been made in the Jankpuri Family Support Centre located in South West of Delhi under the supervision of a volunteer project coordinatior. So far the following facilities have been provided:

Training in skills like tailoring, chalk making/ painting and other handicrafts, so that the disabled people can be economically self-reliant.

Provision of medical check up and treatment, including physiotherapy and ayurvedic oil massage.

Arranging calipers through co-ordination with other organization who give these free.

Running education classes with the help of volunteer teachers in a local temple for children up to class 4.

Arranging admissions for the disabled children in various schools and providing assistance for uniforms and scholarships.

This effort has evoked good response from the able-bodied people of the locality, in particular doctors, teachers and other philanthropists. The nucleus part time staff of this Centre comprises the coordinator, three assistants and a couple of teachers, all volunteers.

The Delhi Cheshire Home is managed by a managing committee, which has the singular privilege of operating under the chairmanship of General Virendra Singh who has been in the Cheshire movement for more than 40 years; perhaps one of the oldest and the closest colleagues of the late founder Leonard Cheshire. The cardinal philosophy of the Home as spelt out by General Virendra Singh is "We Care - We Share".

Another feature of this home is the large number of ex-serviceman and their dependents who are admitted as residents. At present there are 18 ex-service men or their family members from the Army, Air Force, Navy. In addition, there are 4 from the para military forces.

The official charter or the working philosophy of the Home: