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The organisation also runs a working women’s hostel near General Hospital junction and a senior women’s home at Spencer Junction. There was also then a badminton court and table tennis facilities for women residents of the hostel. PioneersYWCA was started in 1854 in England by social activists Lady Mary Jane Kinniard and Emma Robarts, to provide safe shelter for working women, at the height of the Crimean War. That said, YWCA-Trivandrum’s oldest and flagship project is its women’s hostel, a home away from home for students and working women, said to be the first of its kind facility in erstwhile Travancore. For the centenary celebrations, a bunch of us combed through the records and complied a list of milestones,” says Prabha..