INTACT (Integrated Action Trust) is a registered, non-profit, public charitable organisation working to empower the poor and marginalised groups in the society especially women, mentally challenged and hill tribes without any discrimination of caste, creed, religion, language, sex or colour.

INTACT imparts life-oriented education for 78 mentally challenged children in INTACT special school and renders community based rehabilitation for the mentally challenged in the villages of Manigandam, Musiri and Thuraiyur blocks and provides vocational training for intellectually challenged adults.

INTACT works for women's liberation through capacity building activities, which brings economic independence for women. INTACT offers skill training in vocations, which are labour - intensive and environment-friendly. Trading with fair trade organisations and friends groups helps to ensure sustainability of Women empowering programme.  

INTACT provides free medical assistance and health education for hill tribes on Kalrayan Hills; Implements Literacy programmes for tribal adults and Girl Child Fostership programme for young girls.

INTACT adopts ‘bottom-up participatory approach’ and ‘micro-level networking’ as working tools.

Thomas was born on 30th June 1956 in Chengalpattu, south of Chennai, in Tamilnadu, South India. He was the fifth of eight children grown-up in a Christian family from the lowest strata of the society. His father Suviseshamuthu was an employee in the government, teaching carpentry for juvenile prisoners. His mother was a primary school teacher who left her job when she claimed that she encountered God in the year 1969 and became a healer.

He was the first in his family to have entered into university. After 11 years of schooling and Pre-University course for one year he completed his graduation in Commerce in Madras University. Later he took his post graduation in Commerce in Madurai University, worked in Chennai with Chartered Accountants and later he joined Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tiruchirapalli. He studied law in a night course at Tiruchirapalli Bharathidasan University and got enrolled as an Advocate. Thomas is married with Karuna, now a Special Educator and Headmaster of INTACT School. They have two children, a son and a daughter. Thomson is 24 years and Asha Carolin is 21 years.

When he felt that his work was over, he left the church and founded INTACT on 12th of August 1992. During this period he was assisting an organisation, IDEAS in Andimadam in organising Field study programmes for the students from Sweden. Then he came into contact with friends from Sweden who asked him what his dream was. The dream he expressed is now INTACT.

In 1995, he started INTACT Special School for mentally challenged children, as his own son was epileptic. Now there are hundreds of children being benefited from INTACT and his aim is to give the needy children the best food, shelter and feeling of security, what he could not get during his childhood.

He always felt an extra help and energy amidst all misfortunes, which led him through. It was never too much. He is a Christian and a believer. He says that he felt alone until he founded INTACT. Now he sees his life flows like a stream and takes its own course. He looks back at his childhood, his times of loneliness and depression and says that although it looked like misfortunes or setbacks actually they were shaping stones which gave him an insight and served as ‘wake-up calls’ for his greater mission to come later.“I am able to understand the plight and hunger of a child and the holes in broken hearts”, says Thomas.