Help us to provide dry ration to the children & families in Manipur.

It's over a year, Street Providence started working in Manipur in the aftermath of the violence which erupted.

Right from June 23 – March 24 , WE : 

And we undertook so many under small projects.

All this was possible due to generous benefactors from Goa , India & across the globe.

We are now keen to start a women shelter home for ladies with mental disabilities in Churachandpur district.

For men we have a home in Imphal .

We are being requested to consider starting homes in more districts as there Is a considerable no of people suffering from high anxiety and stress which can lead to mental disabilities in due course of time.

We are also aware that the economic situation is not improving and the poor are left to fend for themselves to sustain their livelihood.

Last month there was a massive hailstorm leaving a couple of thousand  homes damaged.

In June 24 , we received an SOS , from a boarding school in Singat asking for dry ration for as many as 75 + boys which we arranged through a benefactor BRIAN by purchasing in Churachandpur itself.

Attached a small link of this dry ration donated to the school. 

This is the same school which did not have electricity during Oct 23,  when our team visited this area.

And this was the same BRIAN who donated funds to fix their lighting system.

Imagine the school had 500 children at that point of time, + 250 – 300 people in the school premises as refugees and absolutely no electricity for hours togther. 

Infact electricity was only in the day with just a few bulbs in the school and two bulbs in the camps as the electricity capacity was for 200 children but the total capacity of people was 800+ at times.

At night the children would study with candles and mobile light.

Today BRIAN has committed dry ration for 6 months and counting.

Another leading restaurant chain in Goa has committed dry ration for another school for initially 3 months which will be purchased in Churachandpur itself.

We are asking for donations to provide dry ration like Rice , Dhal , edible oil , Atta , Salt.

School system is alot different as compared to Goa namely: 

It's all complicated for the poor and for those poor little children who have to study to go ahead in life.

We are not sending this year any trucks from Goa as its too stressful & we got many other projects coming up in Goa & Maharashtra.

Incase you are having a function then please think about these poor children across different schools in Manipur who have seen alot of troubled days last 1 year and put aside a little from this function.

I am not here to discuss politics or anything related to politics.

We are here as relief workers and you can also play a part just like you played last year.

One can pay the supplier directly ( tax exemption not possible) or donate to our NGO & we will pay the supplier (tax exemption provided under 80G).

Whatever may be the donation it should be monthly as it easier for us to manage & its easier for the donor to plan the donation.

If you feel the pinch in Goa due to the inflation & complain then just stop for 30 seconds.

In Manipur , especially in the hills , everything is much more costly  than what you and I find expensive in Goa.

Your support in these difficult times to the children in Manipur will surely fetch you & your family peace of mind as well as spiritual blessings.

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DIAPERS BANK @ STREET PROVIDENCE, GOA, distributed 400 + Adult diapers pkts = 4000 pcs,

( 10 pcs / pkt ) between 1.4.24 to 30.6.24 , to poor people in Government hospitals. 

I have been taking poor patients to different  government hospitals over the last 7 years  ie 

PHC / UHC / DISTRICT HOSPITAL & GMC & it's visible how people suffer especially when facing poverty.

Diaper Bank was conceptualized with this aim to bring a little relief to poor patients who feel the pinch of buying diapers.

We identify the most poor & needy patients in specific wards and give 5 Pcs of diapers to such patients.

No pictures & no video. 

We have a full time staff employed who every morning visits the poorest of the poor & concludes who requires diapers for that day .

By 4pm in the evening, our car drops these adult diapers packets to our staff who then takes about 90 minutes to go around distributing these diapers.

All details are listed Down for the day by the staff which includes:

☆ Type of sickness 

Parallelly surprise checks are done to ascertain which patient has got the diapers for the day.

We keep these 5 Pcs of diapers on the bed of the patient but a record of the daily diapers distribution is also handed over to the nurses.

You too can donate your unused diapers to our DIAPER BANK. 

Or you can donate to our bank account any amount you wish, especially on your special functions like birthdays/ anniversaries/ etc.

The blessings that these poor people give spiritually is worth more than one can expect.

Remember functions are only for the near & dear ones.

Some reduction on your function towards diapers goes to those who you never know or who you will never meet. 

Even I will never ever know who are all these patients who our staff has distributed these 400+ pkts in the last 3 months. 

But I know it is reaching the poorest of the poor as these poor patients sometimes message or WhatsApp me to say thanks. 

Each packet costs between rs 275 – Rs 300.

It's not much but to those poor patients it's a saving on the day they receive these 5 pcs of Diapers.

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Call it destiny or anything you wish.

Bed ridden goan father ,

Mother expired ( goan )

Only adult child is suffering from severe mental disabilities.

No one to take care as a result roams endlessly on the streets , shouting and abusing as well as throwing stones or hitting passerby. 

Then gets a hammering, gets insulted and mocked, may be even slapped or abused.

And we are talking about a Goan girl aged 32 years who we admitted recently into our home.

Presently her father's sister ( aunt ) is standing in for her but it won't be Long as aunt children have migrated and very soon either Aunt will migrate or give up on her as aunt too will grow old.

Another LIFE LONG admission & again I have to be responsible for her as long as she lives, as father will not ever able to look after her due to he being bed ridden.

If this goan girl is not kept in a shelter home might end up on the streets and become uncontrollable leading to her becoming a vagabond and ultimately might get used or even commit suicide due to the stress and disappointment of being unsound.

Mental disabilities is getting bad to worse and we all need to work together especially where our poor own Goans are suffering due to poverty.

We are daily flooded with requests to take in so many poor goans either on the streets or suffering from mental disabilities and having no one to provide care at home. 

Coming Feb 24 end our 11th shelter home will be innaugrated in Goa and by December 2024 we should have 18 – 20 shelter homes in Goa with a bed capacity of 360 to 400 only for those suffering from mental disabilities. 

That's the magnitude of this problem and we are working on a war footing to face this problem.

Your support is what we ask either through your prayers, wishes, donations , etc

In a few days from now , we take in a one of the most complicated cases I ever handled in the last 6 years – goan poor lady amputated in both legs, wheel chair bound and suffering from mental disabilities. 

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An IAS officer who understands poor goan and homeless people suffering from mental disabilities and who has the heart to hear their cries and do what is most required.

STREET PROVIDENCE GOA, Thanks Shri Subhash Chandra ( IAS ) Secretary Social Welfare dept, Government of Goa who has  brought cheer and light to our men's shelter homes by approving schemes and grants for the homeless goans in Goa inspite of these goans not having valid identification for the grants to be released to our Homes.

Most of the homeless who we take in are ethnic Goans both ladies & gents who are suffering from mental disabilities and for reasons best known to them are actually having no identity in their possession.

But all of them are patients of IPHB with some of them having registration nos as 16000 to 25000 which means they are patients of IPHB last 25 to 30 years.

Usually Goa Police finds such psychiatric patients on the streets and admitt them in our homes.

Some are recommended by the Local MLA , Local Sarpanch as they are a disturbance in the society.

To avail of any Government grant under Social Welfare ie 

》for the shelter homes,  

the documents required are Adhar card and disability certificate. 

Last 6 months our application for running camps in our shelter homes to make the adhar cards for our inmates is pending at The Planning & Statistics Dept, Porvorim.

Only after the Adhar card Is generated then we can apply for the Disability certificate which is another 2 to 3 years.

We have been providing FREE REHABILITATION to so many poor ethnic goans in our men's homes last 6 years without much grants to these men.

Why ?  Because no identity no grants.

We have been having major issues at IPHB in acquiring disability certificates to avail of grants.

But 8 months back, Mr Ajit Panchwadkar took over as The Director of Social Welfare dept and alot of changes has happened especially towards the poor goans suffering from disabilities and on the streets.

We have a home at Assnora for men funded under Jeevan Jyot covering 10 men with disabilites @ Rs 2500 per month and we had managed to acquire their documents after many many years of running around .

We put in another file for our Cavelossim men's home under the same state Scheme called ” Jeevan Jyot “, which is for 10 inmates only @ Rs 2500 per inmate per month.

Nothing big and fancy but atleast something better than nothing.

We submitted the file of 10 men with disabilites without any identification but added valid IPHB prescription for over two years of each individual.

Director was a bit apprehensive whether it will clear the committee for approval.

I explained to Ajit Sir, told him, let me know who and which point this file is rejected.

Rest I will take care and manage , but please accept the file, which the department did.

File accepted, cleared the rounds and approved.

To our blessings , The Secretary has signed the order and that paves the way for running such shelter homes inspite of the inmates not having valid identification.

In another move towards poor Goans with disabilities staying in our shelter homes having no valid identification but only valid IPHB prescriptions ” The Hon Chief Minister of Goa ” has clearly instructed The Social Welfare Minister of Goa , to provide DDSSY benefits to all our GOAN inmates only with A valid IPHB prescription.

All these facts can be verified from all the above names I have mentioned in this post.

” THE LAST POOR GOAN suffering from disabilities MATTERS TO the  GOVERNMENT “.

We are happy that after a very long time a Dynamic , hardworking & down to earth Director, Shri Ajit Panchwadkar is heading the Social Welfare dept and our poor goans suffering from disabilities are getting some benefit from this government.

The hardworking Trio @ Social Welfare of :

are indeed a booster dose to all the problems that we were facing once a upon a time in our men's shelter homes.

Today our NGO has grants from Social Welfare Dept for :

all approved by The Social Welfare Secretary 

Mr Subhash Chandra who I only met once may be 2 years back in his office and that meeting to I was very upset & aggressive as nothing was ever moving in Social Welfare towards our NGO.

Usually IAS  officers don't entertain requests for grants from NGOs that easily and they try to waste time and create unnecessary hurdles and paperwork so that NGOs get frustrated and go away .

Shri Subash Chandra ( IAS ) , Secretary, Social Welfare dept , Government of Goa, has shattered that way of working and today we feel blessed that some one in the Secretariat is concerned about Our poor goans on the streets suffering from mental disabilities. 

I hope Hon Minister of Social Welfare, Shri Subash Phal Dessai and Director Shri Ajit Panchwadkar keep approving our continous new proposals towards the Welfare of our poor goans on the streets suffering from mental disabilities. 

Our inmates capacity is increasing from 240 to 500 and that means more resources and more grants need to be given to us.

WE WORK HARD

WE FIGHT LOUD 

WE EXPECT TO BE GIVEN OUR DUES

Street Providence is continuously working towards ending Hunger and Homelessness in Goa and only with The Government support we can carry forward.

I hope the way The Social Welfare dept works, right from the Minister to the Secretary to the Director will be emulated by other Government departments so that ” THE LAST POOR GOAN suffering from disabilities MATTERS TO the  GOVERNMENT “

Otherwise I will hit the streets and highlight the injustice and services denied to The poor goans suffering from mental disabilities and the Homeless.

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70 years Old goan homeless man, weighing just 30 kgs weight, very low BP & a Hernia as big as a peeled coconut, is just being denied basic medical facilities in hospitals last 2 months.

Street Providence Goa requests Health Department to provide better facilities to the poor goan homeless as they are voiceless and we are really overburdened in daily running around different hospitals at times with different patients.

Please go thru our face book page ” Street Providence ” and understand daily how many trips we are making to hospitals with patients.

We will be highlighting next few days how the poor and homeless goans primarily are just not given medical treatment and attention on time.

Mr Santan elderly goan senior citizen found by the Sanguem Mamlatdar in Sanguem April 24

Admitted by Goa Police after local Health centre scribbled on a paper ” fit to be admitted into a shelter home “.

Did they examine & report he has Hernia which is the Size of a peeled coconut ? NO

Did they examine all his parameters and keep him for observation for atleast for 48 hours on a drip as he was totally exhausted? NO

Now how are we are without Government funds going to deal with such a serious matter. 

We tried getting help at :

Everywhere it's just excuses and excuses with each Doctor saying he does not need surgery.

Every report at a hospital contradicts the previous doctor. 

One can imagine his pain in this old age and with the stress of he being abandoned as no one has come forward to lodge a missing report neither is he saying anything of his family.

We have attached a synopsis of how he is being shuttled up and down between all Government hospitals.

See how many times we have admitted & discharged him but nothing is working in his favour.

This is sad & disappointing for Santan and for us.

All his parameters are going haywire. 

Like Santan there are about 50 such serious cases of poor homeless psychiatric goans going through the same disappointing procedures.

Because of lack of medical support from the hospitals we have stopped taking homeless last 2 months as each and every case referred for admission is not treated with dignity in hospitals and we can't take this stress any more.

Plenty of homeless poor goans suffering from mental disabilities & other sickness on the streets and in hospitals.

No one cares and no one is bothered.

If Santan has to be treated and delivered of his pain then he has to be admitted into a good private hospital with the costs going upto 

Rs 2 lacs which we are unable to bear as there are multiple parameters to be controlled before and after the operation.

We are completely frustrated, stressed & disappointed at how Santan condition is getting bad to worse .

It's like seeing death in front of you and we just can't do anything.

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FOOD BANK SANGOLDA collects 6000 kgs/6 tonnes of extra cooked canteen food for the month of June 24 from 7 factories situated in Verna Industrial Estate, which enabled us to feed 18000 meals across Goa.

An initiative, supported by The Department of Inspectorate of Factories and Boilers, Government of Goa , Altinho Goa is slowly reducing wet waste and bringing food on the plate to the poorest of the poor.

In the last 3 months we have collected this :

Target by DEC 24 – 20000 kgs / 20 tons , enough to feed 60000 meals a month.

50 % of the food goes to our shelter homes both in North & South Goa.

10 % of the food goes to other homes 

40% of the food goes to the poor families who may be daily wage workers, sanitation workers, etc.

Our 7 collaboraters who have come forward to support the hungry & poor are :

Coming month of July 24 , we are adding two more companies in Verna Industrial Estate to the existing 7 companies who will provide their extra canteen food to our food bank which will enable our collection to reach approx 8000 kgs of food enough to feed up to 24000 meals in July 24.

Not an easy task as these are really big factories and it's a very systematic and careful planned operation we run at these 7 factories picking up this food.

With 2 hours flat , our frozen food truck visits all these 7 factories and picks up this food.

90% of of this food collected from these 7 factories , is collected in food grade reusable plastic see thru boxes as a result we don't use much plastic bags for food collection.

Just like the 7 factories are reducing the wet waste by donating their food , we too as a food bank are reducing plastic by collecting food in reusable containers.

It's a unique concept across India started in Goa where by factories have allowed our small NGO to install our  fridges in their factories and willingly donate their extra food to a cause of ending Hunger and homelessness in Goa.

With inflation continously on the rise, this fresh cooked food is a big boost to our shelter homes as well as the poor families who depend on this food daily.

We feel happy that Chief Inspector of Factories and Boilers, Sir Pangam has understood the meaning of hunger and food wastage and is requesting factories to donate their canteen food to a worthy cause.

I wish more Officers / Directors of various Government departments in Goa, act like 

Sir Pangam and think out of the box, when sitting in their air-conditioned office, to help the poor & needy. 

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