26.9.24. 7pm. IST
STREET PROVIDENCE MAHARASHTRA is starting 2 homes for poor men & women with mental disabilities In Sawantwadi & in Kankavali.
Friday ie tomorrow 27th Sept is the innaugration of our women home in Sawantwadi which can accommodate 12 women.
♡♡♡ Bishop Allwyn Barreto , Bishop of Sindhudurg will be blessings this home .
♡ Hon Minister Shri Deepak Kesakar &
♡ Hon Minister Shri Ravindra Chavan ,
both Ministers Government of Maharashtra will be present for the innaugration.
Our good friend Shri Crispin Sequeira is invited as a special Invitee.
1st week of November we intend to start the men's home in Kankavali.
Basically last few months we are only accepting Goans either homeless or those with mental disabilities in our 11 homes in Goa.
We require your help to set up and get this home up and running at Sawantwadi.
A list is attached which we need to get this home up and running.
Currently we have purchased new bunker beds as the rooms are small and two single beds would not be possible in the rooms.
Other items can be second hand but we will accept only once we are sure it can be used and it's in usable condition.
Many poor homeless people are in Goa who are from all states including Maharashtra in need of care and rehabilitation and we call them beggars/ outsiders/ etc living on the streets.
Due to they living on the streets they develop mental disabilities and then either create a nuisance which makes the police admitt them into IPHB or other Government hospitals.
Once discharged they again reach the streets and the same cycle continues till the police stop picking them up as it's a waste of Government funds or they just end up dead on the streets as unclaimed.
Soon the tourism season will start and the Exposition will commence & I am sure that the Goa Police and The State administration have not made provision to tackle the beggars menace.
Through social media we are informing the Goa state administration that if they really want to reduce Beggars and the homeless in Goa then these two homes are at their disposal through Street Providence.
Anyway, Goa is one of the States in India which is yet to have a beggars home and we are often called up by Goa Police to shelter & rehabilitate beggars/ homeless.
But we can't rehabilitate non goans on long term basis and the only option is to send them back to their families through repatriation process and that's why we are opening homes across India in different states.
Plenty of non goans in IPHB , GMC , DISTRICT HOSPITALS even in the JAIL who are from different states who need to go back once they get discharged or are set free but due to shame or no motivation stay back in Goa & ultimately reach the streets.
Government of Goa is spending huge amounts of resources on these people which can be reduced if sent back to their state.
Since Sindhudurg district does not have a psychiatric institute like Goa there are many poor people suffering from mental disabilities who require care and rehabilitation and we intend to also use these homes for these poor people, instead of they either being abandoned or they not receiving care.
Consistently i have been addressing various problems which the state government has failed to even visualize let alone implement and working towards the solutions.
Our NGO was the 1st to open homes in Goa for the homeless , the beggars, those poor goans with mental disabilities not having a place to rehabilitate.
Now we are the only NGO from Goa who has opened homes in Maharashtra & Jharkhand for those living on the streets of Goa who should be repatriated back to their state.
We 1st work and then make noises when Government refuses to acknowledge our work.
Before I end I want to state we will care and rehabilitate the poor , the homeless & those with mental disabilities in their respective states by opening homes for men & women.
In Goa its only going to be Goans in all our Homes who will be rehabilitated and cared for.
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God bless you so much
Donald Fernandes
8380097564 / 7020314848

