28.2.2024. 2 pm IST
From once being called GHANTI to now ATMA NIRBHAR. A ethnic Goan lady recovery.
This is how our Hon PM dreams are translated into reality.
THE PRIORITY OF SEVERLY UNDERPRIVILEDGED GOANS FAILED BY Department @ Women & Child, Goa.
NGO IDENTIFIES WORST 60 GOAN CASES ON STREETS EXILED BY GOANS + 30 more such ladies are due for admission once THE CM of GOA delivers on his promise and gives us our dues for 2023 – 2024.
ONE AMONG WHOM TEACHES US A LESSON IN BEING ATMA NIRBHAR WITH HALF A MIND :
》☆ Ousted by Goan society, possibly called ghanti, highly diabetic with both amputated feet,
on psychiatric medication, malnourished and abused on the streets, hence troubled with aggressive impulses, yet with a heart to help.
An inmate of Street Providence, her story can reveal how even for a person with such severe disabilities, it is possible to become Atma Nirbhar.
On 15.2.24 we had highlighted this Goan lady assumed to be a Ghanti as she was living on the streets for years picking up waste.
All she needed was a shelter home with some care and some medications to keep her in a state where she can literally inspire.
Employing creative ways to keep mentally disabled patients occupied, Care Givers at Street Providence, with just simple care and affection have managed to turn the lives of this and more people.
Being Atma Nirbhar and supporting one to be so, now looks simpler thanks to the person in this video as she responds to Donald Fernandes.
With only Rs. 2500 to Rs 5000 per month coming from the state for each of such cases, maybe its time we demand our tax payer money goes to the right causes like this.
Here, the NGO seems to have identified some of the worst of Goan cases and have sheltered them numbering about 60.
This figure is bound to grow sooner than soon, mention officials from this NGO and more.
The question is, DO WE DARE TO CARE FOR OUR VERY OWN GOANS ?
Daily in all our 6 women homes, various Vocational training takes place through different programs and this KNITTING keeps their mind connected to their fingers and ultimately their psychiatric medication intake keeps reducing.
Despite the costs to occupy their minds rising daily with so many activities, yet we see the Joy and we feel their desire to find their purpose in life.
If only the Department @ WCD understands ie :
☆ THE MINISTER
☆ THE DIRECTOR
☆ THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR
☆ THE ENTIRE STAFF
Remember this elderly goan lady was once for over two full years picking up bottles and living like a vagabond on the streets of Margao.
Today we have managed to break her bondage and set her free with daily medication and she has turned out to be a teacher to the other ladies in this shelter Home.
So the next time you see a lady rag picker in Goa and you assume she is a Ghanti , relax – you could be wrong, it could be a ethnic Goan.
God bless you so much
Donald Fernandes
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