4.5.2025. 10pm IST
Miracles happen and it happened to me.
I was jobless for one full year and now I got a job & the blessings i get is ” a salary without having to physically going to work daily “.
Thanks to this Goan Company based in South Goa.
Blessings of the poor are powerful which makes me go on and on even in difficult moments of life
Well I had a good paying job with a dairy company right from 1.1.2010 to 31.3.24.
Vimal dairy pvt ltd gave me everything in life, money , saving, vehicles & everything I needed.
Because I had financial growth working with this company I started the food bank & the shelter homes way back in 2017 as I too was once on the verge of being homeless & alot of financial difficulties and I understood the meaning of hunger poverty homelessness etc.
But last 13 years , I faithfully saved for a rainy day & I never ever took my family for any outstation holiday nor did I enjoy a good life because the money was in flow.
All our projects got interconnected and our NGO grew from project to project and in a short time we were expanding across other states in India.
But due to too much pressure of work & running the NGO, my medical parameters were taking a hit.
I had to choose between my Job at Vimal dairy or running the NGO primarily the shelter homes.
Many in my circle even my higher ups thought I was a fool to quit a fantastic job at VIMAL DAIRY.
The job came with alot of benefits but I quit after 13 years of service as I needed a break.
Vimal dairy pvt ltd cleared all my dues within 15 days after I quit my job.
Usually these dues go on for months and months
Most of us running NGOs get caught up with our work trying to save the world and we automatically neglect our children & spouse.
But I decided to spend time with my children & that decision turned in my favour.
My eldest son doing 1st semester computer science topped the 1st semester @ 9.95 Percentile among all the 7 streams in that college.
My younger two children have taken up archery, swimming, table tennis , music as well as doing extremely well in their studies.
Infact my 3rd child represented Goa at the Nationals Under 10 recently at Andhra Pradesh.
I was around to drop & pick them up from school and take them for their never ending practices for various activities.
My medical condition started improving, I started live stock farming at home along with a vegetable garden , life was amazing.
But i needed a job as I was diping into my saving.
Our NGO has close to 85 staff and imagine every month I sign their salary cheques & I don't have a job myself.
Last 1 year when we as a family say our daily Rosary/ night prayers I would loudly prophecy
” thank you God for my Job”.
Infact one of my child asked me ” Dada you don't have a job but why are you prophecinng that you have a job “.
Well I learnt this from my good friend ” BJ ” whose retreats I would attend along time back, that always speak the future, speak the truth not the fact.
The fact is I don't have a job.
But facts becomes the Truth and truth are not facts. And today the Truth is I have a job.
What we speak is what comes to pass.
In the last week of March 25 , a God fearing employee of a company that daily gives one of our home fresh food convinced his Goan Director/ owner to employ me as a employee on retainership basis for a good salary for atleast six months to start with.
This Director / owner also is a good acquitance of our Full time Volunteer Sir Bosco George & only once we all met togther in their office way back in October 2024.
Many times NGOs are looked up as money making units.
People troll me , talk nasty things , spread negative comments, etc.
If one believes that NGOs are money making units then what stops anyone one from setting up an NGO and make money.
Life at an NGO like Street Providence is not easy and a roller coaster .
It's a stressful life with full of responsibility & commitment.
One mistake the staff makes & that's enough to start the troubles.
But on the brighter side running an NGO systematically gets you :
× long term benefactors which we have
× government grants which we avail
× administrative support across departments
× retd IPS officers as volunteers like Sir Bosco
× weekly fresh food from The Governor which is in the 3rd year running enough to feed 100 residents in our homes
× CSR funding without having to bribe anyone
& now a job for me so that I can provide for my family & meet my daily needs.
Coming year end another two IAS / IPS officers on their retirement have committed to work as volunteers with our NGO full time.
This is called BLESSINGS FROM THE POOR as its favour of God & man.
Still for those few envious & jealous souls always trying to spew venom and bitch about me – well keep going with your negative energy.
God will send some one to help you when you go out of your way to help another.
If you can't help the poor directly then help us through your donations and we will help the poor.
You will surely get the blessings.
Also remember blessings & curses of the poor , hungry , abandoned, lonely, can either build one up or can cause turmoil in one's life.
Thank you for reading this long post.
Your comments are welcome and if any way I can be of help to anyone going thru Any disappointment in life please whatsapp me.
I have been thru the worst days in all possible situations until I experienced the power and blessings coming from the poorest of the poor in the work I do and very soon we will across all states in India and across the boundaries of India.
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God bless you all
Donald Fernandes
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