A homeless Danish National taken into our home 2 nights back ,  after the authority meant to solve such issues theoretically threw him on the roads for one night.

It could have been more nights on the streets of Goa or even turned murdered or dead on the streets if not for a genuine Goan Taxi driver.

Well Mr FLEMING is our guest in India and it pains me that whatever may be the reason he is in a mess ” the law makers actually knowing he is homeless did nothing but made him sleep one 

night on the road “.

Hon CM of Goa & Tourism Minister, you both need to take note of such stupid and careless attitude shown by the same authorities who are supposed to help foreign nationals especially when one is totally broke and may be disoriented.

FLEMING has a valid passport , visa and Form C, but lost in his mind and body.

A goan taxi driver was helping him but the law enforcement agency abused and threatened to arrest the taxi driver for no fault of his.

Seeing this threats , this goan taxi driver contacted another taxi driver who knows our work.

Immediately i got a call and I agreed to help.

I called up the senior most law enforcement agency of that station who is two levels above the officer who threatened this taxi driver.

Immediately things moved and this same officer called me saying ” can u help this Danish man “.

I agreed.

But because I called up the senior most law enforcement officer and this junior got a barging of words from the top, the junior again abused and threatened the taxi driver for contacting me.

This is horrible state of affairs of the law enforcement department in Goa headed by The Hon CM of Goa.

We are so used to murders and deaths in Goa that no one i mean no cares a damn if anyone is on the streets of goa even if its a FOREIGNER.

Then when bad things happen, foot falls take a hit , all excuses pop up , but who cares.

We are time and time again asking GOA POLICE to provide a dedicated official NORTH & SOUTH to respond to such calls of poor people living and dying on the streets .

Hon Chief Minister of Goa , kindly take this social media post seriously.

I am not inwarding any letter to your office about this incident neither am i giving any names as usually nothing happens fast.

There is no sensitization happening for your new recruited law enforcement officers and as such they don't know about the shelter homes available in Goa. 

Put a system in place to avoid such incidents which will bring a bad name to the state and to your department.

Find out who , what , where, why this happened.

Take the officer to task.

It's too much pain to hear and see that a regular visitor to our state for so many years as per his passport was theoretically made to sleep for a night on the streets when a simple phone call to us could have helped him get a shelter that night.

Its freaking raining last 7 days , and in that area daily there are huge no of drug addicts, drug peddlers, goondas, thieves etc who could have just ripped this Danish tourist up with an intention to rob him as he is a foreigner.

As of now FLEMING is recuperating from his ordeal of being lost and lonely in India.

If anyone knows genuine authorities in the DENMARK EMBASSY / CONSULATE please get in touch with me through whatsapp messages only on 8380097564.

Whatever is our fight with the departments in Goa regarding our grants, our doors are open 24*7 for homeless ladies and gents, goans or non goans , Indians or foreigners but through Goa Police only.  No direct admission.

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On World Environment day , most plant a tree or a sapling on 5th of June 2025.

Rest of the 364 days how do we contribute towards the Environment?

Well @ Street Providence on 5th June , we did nothing, but for the rest of the 364 days we collected a huge quantity of good Cooked food which would have reached the garbage bins and reduced the plastic which would have gone with this cooked food into the garbage.

Last 364 days ie 1.4.24 to 31.3.25 our food bank saved the Environment by :

This 100000 kgs of food & 10000 kgs of plastic was surely going to the bins and this was a pilot project run with the support of Factories and Boilers, Department, Government of Goa along with 13 Factories.

[ Note when disposing of 10 kgs wet waste one requires 1 kg single use plastic.]

These 13 factories are in these placrs :

Goa is having the highest per capita plastic waste issue in india and only lip service is shown time & time again by the authorities here in Goa.

And to top it all , all law makers planted a sapling which looked to me as a formality on 5th June 25

If we are to seriously save our Environment then its a 365 day commitment.

Street Providence Goa has a concrete and ready plan to reduce wet waste and single use plastic to the extent of :

If more government departments like Factories & Boilers feel they could play their part in reducing wet waste and plastic from reaching the garbage bins then alot of our environment can be saved and 5th June can be really be celebrated as WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY.

The potential departments who could play their part for 364 days to save the environment are :

We have proved our effort in reducing wet waste and plastic through this pilot project.

Rest is the call Hon CM of Goa has to take.

Let's work togther [  irrespective of the authorities support, as they are mostly unable to take unorthodox decisions ] in saving our ENVIRONMENT, 364 days of the year and not only on 5th June. 

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How one goan IAS OFFICER went out of way to help us 3 years back and today a miracle happened by the Grace of God that the problem which this IAS officer was facing for years within the family has been eradicated / resolved.

Well exactly 3 years back I had approached a Goan IAS OFFICER, who is still in service to help our homes with regards to a particular request.

This IAS OFFICER could have said ” i will look into the request and I will get back to you “.

But this Goan IAS OFFICER did the opposite, which most government officials should learn from.

This Goan IAS OFFICER picked up the phone explained our request to the person on the other side , took our application and said ” REQUEST APPROVED , JOB DONE “.

Please wait for 15 days,  was the request.

Believe me within 15 days our request was granted.

Last 3 years because of this Goan IAS OFFICER our monetary benefit in KIND is worth 

Rs 10000 per month × 36 months = Rs 360000 for a particular product which all our residents benefit and need daily.

In addition last 3 years from the same person who was on the other side of that phone call our shelter homes got cheques worth Rs 10 lacs as donations.

No commission, no under the table , no return favors asked.

And even today the benefits are coming.

But at the time when I had approached this Goan IAS OFFICER, I did not know, nor was aware that this Goan IAS OFFICER was having serious health issues within the family and these health issues was a source of worry to this Goan IAS OFFICER.

One day I was briefed and I put a team together  to address these health issues the family was going through, which went on for about 6 months & then we stopped visiting these family members and the Goan IAS OFFICER did not take offence.

But just 2 days back at the time of me writing this post i was briefed by a certain company @ Verna industrial Estate, inquiring whether I knew so and so person.

It then struck me that this person was a family member of this Goan IAS OFFICER and it' was a miracle that the family member is employed at a MNC company,  was once suffering from a sickness which is difficult to come out off.

I concluded : this Goan IAS OFFICER solved my problem 3 years back without knowing me & the silent prayers and blessings of so many homeless people in our homes moved the SPIRIT OF GOD , that GOD had no alternative but to open the flood gates of Heaven and release that power on this family member of this Goan IAS OFFICER. 

No matter what I am or what any one thinks & concludes about me and my attitude – it's the poorest of the poor who are important at Street Providence and when you help, you are helping poor goans with serious mental disabilities at our Shelter homes not Donald Fernandes.

Usually some IAS / IPS / GPSC officers once in that hot seat forget the poor and needy requests and will tell you all rules and regulations till you show some interest in addressing their personal concerns and that in turns brings curses and destruction in these officers lives which at that point of time, no one understands.

To those in power – never use that seat you sit on to make the lives of the poor especially ladies with mental disabilities, children in orphanages and homeless a misery.

You never know what will happen to your own children or family members when you retire and are not in power.

Power is not permanent.

Blessings are permanent.

Think wisely as God has blessed each one to be a blessings to the less fortunate.

Don't mess with the poor and downtrodden.

Please don't ask me who is this officer.

But send this message to people who work in high positions who you think might change their approach towards society.

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Donald Fernandes 

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STREET PROVIDENCE GOA builds and hands over our 5th home to an internally displaced family in Manipur last week.

This Home was donated by WINI family from Altinho Panjim, where by the senior citizens from this family, have been our benefactors for many years and counting.

Work on the 6th home is underway funded by A goan gentleman Mr Eric & family.

Two days back we had uploaded about our 4th home which was built & handed over.

Life is difficult and not easy for those who are displaced.

All of the 5 families where we have built homrs have entered with just basic second hand house hold items & furniture.

It's really amazing that last 2 years we have been continously working across Manipur and people of Goa have been supporting our work thru their donations.

We work on the ground across so many states with the poorest of the poor.

At times we are trolled and wrong info is given out by a few disheartened souls who are totally lost and lonely in their lives.

They just cant see that our very small NGO is growing across so many areas where the poor and homeless are benefited.

Let's prayer for these people who spread wrong news , info , gossip about me and our work.

But they will preach about Jesus , the Bible, etc but in their lives you won't see any fruits but only hurts and disappointments with unforgiveness.

Let's use our energy for positive growth because once you start going negative, you or that person using negative energy will acquire mental disabilities and then these few disheartened souls will end up on psychiatric medication.

Our commitment to work in many states across many fields stems from our transparency where we upload on social media the work we wish to undertake, the cost required to get the work done & once the job is done we again upload on social media the final result.

When we are troubled by anyone we upload on social media. 

When our troubles are addressed and solved we thank the authority and upload on social media.

We work differently and that is what gets our projects moving.

For us as an SMALL NGO it's the benefactors/ donnors who are the back bone till date.

Goa being a small state everyone knows everyone and goan benefactors are very quick to acknowledge, the genuine & committed NGOs and that's why we are able to do what we are doing.

If you reading this post can donate a home for the displaced families in Manipur then please let me know. 

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Street Providence builds and hands over our 4th home in Manipur.

( infact the 5th home is also built & handed over)

( 6th home construction is going on )

This 4th home was donated by one goan senior citizen man from Moira but based abroad who has been supporting our work over the last 7 years practically in all our projects.

A last couple of weeks work has slowed down due to trouble and unrest as things are not going smoothly but never the less we have built our 4th home.

The man in the video is speaking in his dialect and is an elderly family who has now a roof over their head and place to call their home.

Life is getting difficult as it's now about 2 years that the trouble started. 

When we gave an assurance last year that we will arrange to build 10 homes in Manipur, it looked difficult. 

If anyone crosses CHOGM road you will see a red board on the wall ” help us build homes in Manipur “.

It's there for over 6 months but that board has brought BLESSINGS / JOY & HAPPINESS to so many families.

Well ” BJ ” taught me to always speak the FUTURE & create and visualize what you want your dream to be.

Well here we are 6 Homes and counting.

I spoke the Word , blessed the project and sent it out spiritually through my social media posts.

6 goan families got touched and felt motivated to donate a home towards a displaced family in Manipur.

Infact one family donated funds & we even built a small chapel in this area for these 100  families to pray and be in the presence of God.

God has his plans & we just need to do the little we can to make those plans come to pass.

I am still in need of 4 more homes to be built to complete my commitment of 10 homes in Manipur for 10 poor displaced families.

Each home is Rs 5 lacs and construction material prices are rising last few months.

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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:

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.

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Time to get up & smell the coffee.

Old aged homes are starting to shut down and in the next 2-3 years the graph will start coming down quickly. Those running old aged homes are not starting more homes or adding more beds to their existing beds.

Shelter homes are practically struggling to survive.

Government mid way homes are not existing.

Care givers and Labour is practically not available as no one wants to enter this field. 

That's why the cost of care givers is hitting the roof.

Homeless people are increasing.

Fertility rate is dipping at an alarming rate across India.

Mental disabilities along with other disabilities is on the rise in Goa & across India.

UN has declared disabilities across the world @ 15% of the population and it's rising.

These are my little studies which can be accepted or just ignored.

India last census was in 2011 when only a few disabilities were covered.

Today it's 21 different disabilities which are covered under the act. So the no of People included as PWDs has gone up.

Goa will be starting a census very soon which will threw up startling figures.

No. of mental hospitals in India for a population of 1.35 billion people :

No. of psychiatric departments in India in medical colleges :

183 in Government 

215 in private 

Globally India Is ranked at 61st in mental health.

So why and from which category is disabilities increasing and what that got to do with fertility rate and care givers / labour ?

Well 5 -6 groups can be summarized where mental disabilities will rise quickly

Too much of screen time which will take a toll on the cells of little children which will start to affect the mind.

Children today are not playing sports as it was 20 years back.

Thyroid is on the rise even as young as 14 years due to unhealthy food habits, lack of sports & exercise. 

Attraction to drugs , alcohol, night life , unhealthy eating habits.

Too much pressure to do well in 10th / 12th / 15th standard.

Drugs are sold to 10th & 12th std students as memory boosting capsules telling these children that of you take these capsules you will do well in your exams.

Children are getting upset and aggressive nature, coupled with suicides cases going up.

Job pressure to find a job as there are no jobs.

Job pressure to perform & get more salary if you get one job.

If you get job then all activities start like parties, mortagage , loans, extra spending, etc.

Live in relationship period & marriage is ruled out.

Why have children ? 

Pressure from parents to settle down.

Late marriages.

No saving as who has seen tomorrow. 

Got married due to society / family pressure.

Want only one child.

No exercise, Alcohol, parties , night life continue.

Wrong food habits and wrong life style continue.

Has money now, but only one child.

That child has studied, gone abroad or married and staying separate.

Now stressed as staying alone but looking for company of child but child is else where.

As a catholic, Vocations are not happening resulting in no NUNS / SISTERS/ BROTHERS/ PRIESTS.  As there are no children being born.

No NUNS / SISTERS, then how old aged homes will run especially i am talking in context of GOA.

Agricultural & Livestock is totally down & out

Everyone wants wealth power fame .

Old aged is not going to be easy in the next few years from now .

If you reached this line then I hope u understood this post & why I wrote ” get up and smell the coffee”

Your views and comments are welcome no matter what you feel please comment.

90 mental hospitals for a 1.35 billion population.

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God bless you all

Donald Fernandes 

8380097564 / 7020324848