18.5.2025. 11am IST
Help us furnish our 2nd home for the homeless men & men with disabilities in Kankavali, Maharashtra with a bed capacity of 50 beds.
This home is in OLD BISHOP house @ Kankavali, which once upon a time was used by Bishop Allwyn Barreto and now it's being used to serve the poorest of the poor.
It's a bit old and needs repairs and upgrading to make it comfortable for the poor.
Bishop Allwyn Barreto understands that there is need in Sindhudurg Diocese for care & rehabilitation for men and ladies with disabilities.
Street Providence has one home started in Sawantwadi for ladies with disabilities way back in Sept 2024 with a bed capacity of 12 beds which Bishop Allwyn had blessed.
Well why are we setting up homes in Maharashtra ? This question most will ask.
Well in Goa, our shelter homes is for Goans only.
In Maharashtra its for Maharashtrains only.
Across Goa we all see hundreds of beggars & vagabonds sleeping on roads, payments etc.
In our 11 shelter homes in Goa we don't accept any non goans, as goans with disabilites or the genuine homeless goans are only cared for in Goa.
Culture, food habits, language, etc plays a big role where rehabilitation is concerned for the homeless and those with disabilities.
But to avoid being insensitive to genuine homeless in Goa , we are setting up homes In Karnataka & Maharashtra and it's an option or a solution if the Government of Goa would like to take benefit off by repatriation of homeless in Goa back to their respective states where we are having shelter homes.
Also by end 2025 / mid 2026 , IPHB bambolim will be increasing their capacity from 190 to 400.
The nearest mental hospital is in Ratnagiri which had an original capacity of 375 beds but currently only 125 beds are being used.
Due to Goa boasting of one the best health facilities in India , poor people from neighboring states are always taking treatment in Goa and many a times once treated just loiter around in Goa on the streets.
Mental disabilities is increasing across rural India also and forget rehabilitation homes, even psychiatric wards or mental hospitals are not available across rural India.
Once IPHB bambolim goes fully operational with 400 beds, the demand for care & rehabilitation will be minimum 1000 beds, once treated at IPHB.
People from Districts surrounding Goa will be turning up in huge nos and that will be a problem for us local Goans.
Today we rehabilitate in Goa, 150+ highly chronic poor psychiatric goans who would have been on the streets if we did not have homes in Goa.
Demand in Goa is too much to manage & that's why you will see we are always agitating for funds from the Government.
Today In Goa :
IPHB has a bed capacity of 190.
Street Providence Goa has 150 psychiatric patients , with a total bed capacity of 250.
While IPHB is increasing its bed capacity to 400
We are keen to increase our bed capacity to 500 In Goa.
We require at our home at Kankavali these items:
1. Solar 500 ltrs
2. Inverter 3kv and double Battery
3.Television
4. CCTV
5. Bunker Beds 25 nos with rexin mattres 50 nos
6. Single Bedsheets 100 nos
7. Blanket 50 nos
8. Air Condition 2 nos
9. Ceiling Fans 10 nos
10. Led Tube light 15 nos
11. Comercial gas stove
12. All kitchen equipment
13. Dinning Tables plastics 8 nos
14. Chairs 40 nos plastic
15. Pillows 50 nos rexin
16. wheelchair 4 nos
17. water purifier
18. Cupboards
19. Buckets, Mugs.
You can also visit this home as currently painting, plumbing , electrical, tile cleaning, fabrication etc works are going on which we have to spend to make this place livable.
Innaugration planned 13th June 2025.
All communications strictly through whatsapp messages only on 8380097564
God bless you all
Donald Fernandes
8380097564 / 7020314848
