The Kanji Project is a small, volunteer-run charity which raises funds to support a school, a children's home and community projects in and around the rural area of Kanji in Tamil Nadu, south India. St Antony's School started in a small hut with one class in 1994. Since then it has grown into a school of about 900 students ranging in age from three to fifteen learning in purpose-built classrooms. Students from St Antony's have gone on to study in fields such as engineering, nursing and medicine.

Shanthi Lumine children's home accommodates about ninety children, mainly girls, of ages five to seventeen. The children come from deprived backgrounds of poverty, neglect or abandonment. At Shanthi Lumine, they find the love and security that every child needs. In the villages around Kanji, the charity provides funding for medical treatment, for food parcels, for house repairs and for whole-village aid such as bore wells. Widows often find life particularly difficult in rural India, and the help provided through the charity offers not just some alleviation from hardship but also a boost to their self-esteem.