Pallikoodam

Pallikoodam
Location
Kottayam, Kerala India
Information
Type	Private
Established	1967
Authority	ICSE
Principal	Mariamma Paul
Campus	Kalathilpady, Kottayam
Website	www.pallikoodam.org

Pallikoodam is a high school in the Kalathilpady area of Kottayam in Kerala, India. It was established as Corpus Christi High School in 1967 by educator and women's rights activist, Mary Roy. The term "Pallikoodam" means school in the Malayalam and Tamil languages.

The campus of the school was designed by architect Laurie Bakerand includes a swimming pool, basketball and volleyball courts, a football field, an 800-seat auditorium, and platforms for theatre and other performing arts. The school has a full-time faculty for sports, drama, music, dance and other arts.

The school has partnered with activist organisations including Greenpeace, EXNORA, and several NGOs in Kerala for projects. Victim relief efforts have been organised by the school in the wake of disasters such as the Orissa cyclones and the 2005 tsunami. The school was a subject of a documentary by the Indian broadcaster Doordarshan: Mary Roy and Corpus Christi. Projects of the school have been featured on BBC World and Star News.

Pallikoodam School has championed several socio-environmental causes in Kottayam. It protested against the official apathy regarding the Vadavathoor Dump problem and formed the Citizen's Action Forum (CAF) which discusses such issues.

There was a lack of water at the Institute of Child Health in Kottayam; it was found that there was adequate water supply to the I.C.H., but the Class IV employees had diverted it into their own quarters where it was being used to irrigate crops. Due to the sustained agitation by the CAF, the water supply was restored.

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