STREET PROVIDENCE GOA has attached 2 charts which will enable you to understand the quantum of sick people we care for in our homes in Goa & the transportation costs.

We have 2nd largest shelter home in Goa providing care for those with disabilities after  PROVEDORIA with 240 bedd capacity providing free rehabilitation & caring for poor goan people & the homeless  with all types of  disabilities & sicknesses.

At any point of time we have close to 110 to 125 persons with severe & chronic types of all  disabilities yet sorry to say ” HEALTH DEPARTMENT is not providing our homes the same facility which PROVEDORIA is enjoying “.

As a result our team is daily roaming around government hospitals ie both District hospitals , GMC & IPHB.

The Health Department is yet to reply to our letter written more than 3 months back asking for government doctors to visit out homes.

You can understand the frustrations & disappointing moments our team goes thru daily with all these sick people.

This is one of the primary reasons we have stopped taking admissions last few months resulting in the homeless in Goa piling up across major cities as well as in Government hospitals.

It's easy to call me / whatsapp me and say take this homeless man / woman into the home.

Do you even understand the troubles we go thru daily running around with them as most of the homeless carry along multiple sickness which need constant medical attention & care.

Daily, 3 – 4 drivers are on the road carrying sick patients up and down from all our homes which adds to our fuel costs and maintenance costs not to forget salaries and refreshments/ meals.

It's a non ending story 24*7*365 days.

All the data on these 2 sheets can be verified , as daily we upload on our face book page the no of inmates taken to hospitals with the pictures.

All data , prescription, medication is entered In a drive by the bank office team.

Without assured Government grants it's next to impossible to take in more homeless people. 

We thank our benefactors for the support but daily it's getting difficult and inflation is increasing our running costs.

We are at complete cross roads. 

We have close to 50 / 60 beds available to take in more homeless but government funding & medical support needs to be provided by the authorities.

Trust me, it's a nerve wrecking situation daily,  especially with sick and old homeless goans in our 11 homes and I have to keep an eye on the ever mounting expenses to be taken care off.

For those who we have refused admissions please understand the situations we are highliting and the complicated systems that we have to go through as all our homes are scattered in 5 talukas of Goa – both North & South.

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STREET PROVIDENCE GOA thanks The GOA State Transport Department ( RTO ) headed by Minister  Mr Mauvin Godinho for road tax exemption on our vehicles starting 1.4.24.

It's a huge huge saving to get tax exemption from The Government of Goa towards our NGO.

Mr Minesh Tar , Asst Director , RTO, Mapusa has been a big support towards this tax exemption benefit as our NGO is registered in Bardez taluka.

Very often people donate their second hand bikes and cars to our NGO and we used to approach The RTO at Mapusa for the paperwork.

For those of you who know this office at Mapusa ”  it's always crowded “.

Moment you say NGO, officers in most departments look at you suspiciously and its understandable as today everyone claims to be an NGO.

Initially we had issues, but in due course of time after registering many two wheelers and many four wheelers, both new and second hand , our acquaintance with Asst Director Mr Tar got better and better.

We always had a support in The OSD to Transport Minister and that always quickened up our work.

For the amount of work we undertake which is always on the road, 4 wheelers are always needed.

From Jan 2024, we are in the process of acquiring through donations/ CSR close to 7 new four wheelers but the road tax was an issue.

We approached The Hon Transport Minister through the OSD who directed us to The Asst Director, Mr Tar who examined our papers and assured us that all vechiles bought in the NGO name will be road tax exempted.

No time wasting / no begging / no hanky panky but professional quick service.

Recently end March 24, we purchased an INSUZU frozen food truck which we were granted full road tax exemption.

Then late April 24 we purchased a Mahindra Scorpio which we were granted full road tax exemption.

And both these figures put togther are quite a substantial amount for which we are thankful to the Government of Goa @ The Transport Department. 

Usually one never hears of Small NGO like ours getting help from the Government as we are not politically connected to any party or any politician. 

But we are proud to state that alot of  departments @ Government of Goa , are supporting our NGO namely:

Without Government support it's next to impossible to run so many complicated services @ Street Providence where our main focus is on :

I have two habits ie 

A. When ever any department goes out of their way to support our work towards homeless and the poor with disabilities 

” I MAKE IT A POINT TO HIGHLIGHT & THANK THE DEPARTMENT “.

B. But I also highlight and fight alot when officers in a certain department don't do justice to our NGO fully knowing we are doing a difficult service towards the poorest of the poor.

Last 3 months have been stressful & really difficult for all of us at Street Providence but this road tax exemption is the silver lining on the horizon which makes me belive ” Government of Goa, headed by The Hon CM & his ministers and Bureaucracy is doing something for the homeless, the hungry and those with disabilities at our NGO “.

But it takes alot of follow up, phone calls, running around, etc.

Everything sounds nice and good but belive me where ever we are or whatever benefit we get or got, has taken alot of hard work and convincing as well as proof to demonstrate that the work we undertake across Goa.

And last year we opened homes in Jharkhand & Manipur.

August we open open in South Maharashtra. 

Lots of hours on the road.

We do have problems and issues with certain departments but that is because of individual officers/ directors/ staff who are only looking for bribes and they come to office totally stressed and disturbed.

When any Government officer does not belive in humanity but only works for his / her salary then issues and harassment starts especially if you are an NGO.

But if you meet a kind hearted officer like Mr Minesh Tar & your papers are in order and work is there for all to see then you know the officer understands hunger and homeless basically HUMANITY.

Once again we are very thankful to 

The Transport Department headed by The Hon Minister Mr Mauvin Godinho as well as The Asst Director of Transport Mapusa Mr Minesh Tar for this support without any hassle.

No negative comments please as I am yet to meet both :

The Hon Transport Minister as well as 

The Asst Director of Transport , Mapusa

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30 % – 40 % of the homeless in Goa on the streets are ethnic Goans or are having a goan connect and usually we tend to call all homeless on the streets as migrants or outsiders.

Which is wrong . 

Why wrong ? Read on slowly.

Look at the picture with the elderly man In an unclean clothes and not at all oriented.

He is Mr Santan from Bendwad , Savordem.

Surely anyone will say he is a migrant / outsider.

But he is a ethnic goan abandoned by his family of 3 well to do sons.

Like Santan there are 100's of such poor goans on the streets across Goa , they all look like migrants.

2 months back the Mamlatdar of Sanguem helped him off the streets of Sanguem & we admitted him into our home.

But his parameters on all levels are so bad & disappointing that in last 2 months we have admitted him 4 times in the hospital but since he is old and homeless he is just ignored & discharged immediately. 

》He is an Emergecy situation patient and needs to be monitored 24*7 by one full time care giver as it's all complicated.

Undernourished, stressed, abandoned, totally weak and disappointing to be left alone in this old aged on the streets by his sons who are abroad and on the ship.

Imagine what stress we all are going through.

And like Santan we have 90 to 100 such elderly goans ladies and gents abandoned by their families on the streets.

And daily we get calls and requests to take off so many such poor homeless street people which we are unable to oblige.

GOVERNMENT OF GOA through various departments like :

actually are to be doing this job of getting the ethnic homeless goans off the streets but it's not happening.

Hundreds of homeless and beggars with disabilities we have been getting of the streets of Goa from 2017 with the expectations that the government would fund our homes.

But inspite of The Hon CM of GOA instructing Social Welfare and WCD officials to increase our grants it's only on paper.

Last few months we have gone totally slow on taking homeless off the streets and that why you can see hundreds of beggars and homeless in all cities of Goa.

Moment we slow down admissions, there is an increase on the streets and government hospitals of the homeless.

Funding is the main reason and please  understand each and every homeless comes with multiple & complicated sickness especially Scabies, TB , HIV & Mental disabilities which is always chronic in nature.

Top it all ” Government hospitals across the state as of today are having huge no of poor goan & non goan homeless who are living there at the courtesy of the State “.

We are constantly asking for donations as its not an easy service being a small NGO.

Till date this is what the grants are 

Social Welfare: Rs 2500 per gent per month 

WCD : Rs 2500 / Rs 4500 per lady per month

If anyone recognizes SANTAN please instruct his sons to help us with our bills of caring for their dad.

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FOOD BANK FOR THE POOR SANGOLDA collects for the month of MAY 24 , from 6 factories @ Verna Industrial Estate,  5000 kgs to feed 15000   meals.

For the 2nd month in running we are collecting excess canteen food from these 6 big companies which has been made possible due to the Support of INSPECTORATE OF FACTORIES AND BOILERS, Government of Goa, Altinho GOA.

We are adding another 3 more factories in the month of June 24 from Verna Industrial Estate so overall the monthly collection of food from these 9 factories should be 7000 kgs.

And Verna industrial Estate has more than 50 big factories who we are yet to approach, so one can imagine the quantity of cooked food in this industrial Estate daily reaching the bins.

Overall for the month of May 24 we collected excess food to feed the poor from :

All this food if not channelised to our food bank would have reached the bins and gone waste.

We have teams feeding in :

Alot of poor families suffering from disabilities depend on this food And I am thankful to so many feeders who have come forward to feed the poor in their areas.

People usually feel food banks only feed the migrants.

Well as we learnt in School ” all Indians are our brothers and sisters ” so yes we don't discrimate while feeding the hungry.

Just image all this 8000 kgs going to the bins & the recycling plants.

Why waste it ?

Hunger and homelessness knows no caste, creed or belief.

Food banks are the need of the hour as inflation & price rise is something taking a toll on the poor

With so much of good Cooked food in Goa being wasted daily, we at Food Bank Sangolda for the last 7 years,  are doing the little we can to feed the poor as well as save the environment .

Without the support from the management of the above companies as well as Chief Inspector of Factories and Boilers, this unique project of collecting excess food from factories would not be a reality.

Mid April 24 , we acquired a frozen food truck which has a capacity to carry 2000 kgs of food.

We are working towards feeding as many as we can as well as saving the environment from wet waste.

It's not an easy service running such a big food bank as many small issues are to be kept track off continous and daily.

But the joy we get is when we see that the hungry go happy with the food we provide to them through our feeders and we are also playing a small part in saving the environment.

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This middle aged poor goan abandoned married  lady suffering from severe mental disabilities continuously attempts to kill / harm herself by either slitting her hands or other means.

Sounds scary.

But for a moment hold on and just switch places.

She has been locked up / admitted in IPHB for  years as no one wanted her back home ie : neither her father as she is / was married nor 

her husband who just abandoned her.

Her only child was taken away from her by the husband/ family when she was for many years in IPHB.

Her blessings was ” we volunteered to rehabilitate her ” else she would still be in IPHB.

And she is with us last 3 years.

The most difficult part for this goan lady is when she came out of IPHB and we admitted her into our home she discovered that while she was in IPHB for many years:

Her mother died due to harassment,

Her one sister died due to suicide,

Her one sister died due to unknown reasons.

In addition when we took her to her home her brother & father did not take her inside the house nor did they acknowledge her presence in the home they just ignored her like she was a ghost.

She keeps telling me ” I don't want to live, I have no one , how long will any home keep me , I have no one “.

Wonderful woman when not thinking this issues but moment that old memories pop up all trouble breaks loose .

In the last 3 years we have admitted her back into IPHB atleast 12 times , that shows the severity of her mental health. 

So even though she has been for many years in IPHB still her condition is not conducive for her to live alone because she has no one. 

And belive me besides STREET PROVIDENCE there is no other SHELTER HOME across GOA volunteering to take care of such poor goan people FREE OF COST besides Rs 2500 / 5000 which WCD is paying us as grant per month per lady.

And like this lady we have close to 50 such poor goan ladies ( plus a few non goans )  all with similar issues – All on Severe psychiatric medication which makes them unable to live alone or with their families as they just don't have any one to care for them.

And like this lady we have another 24 such poor goan ladies with severe mental disabilities waiting to get into our homes for rehabilitation.

It's a huge risk and very expensive dealing with these hyper ladies as Any time they get violent & attempt to harm their bodies or to others.

And once the symptoms start of getting violent we rush them to IPHB & get them admitted.

But on the other side ” these goan ladies are human beings like your wife / sister / mother etc”.

For me personally ” I see God in them ” and that makes me go beyond my capacity. 

A mental hospital is the worst place while living to be kept in.

Even jails are better,  but to live for years in a mental hospital is not what we at STREET PROVIDENCE feel and desire. 

That's why we are opening more and more homes and you will always wonder why we are always aggressive and in dispute with various Government departments.

Without donations it's very difficult to run these services in Goa.

This is the Government job to care for its subjects but this not any minister , director or even The Disability Commissioner concern.

All these authorities are just turning their eyes the other side. 

But festivals to organize everyone is ready.

There is absolutely no returns or any money to make, in homes for people with mental disabilities. 

Look around and try to recollect if you know or heard of any homes in GOA taking in psychiatric poor people FREE OF COST especially ladies.

It's easy to look after men no matter how severe their mental illness is but it's very very difficult & dangerous caring for ladies with chronic mental disabilities. 

We have created infrastructure to take in upto 100 such ladies so you must understand how we work and how much we are working towards our poor goan ladies suffering from chronic mental disabilities. 

At any point of time in one go ” we can in any 1 day take in 25 ladies with severe mental disabilities “.

That's how much prepared we are to solve problems of our poor goan ladies suffering from mental disabilities. 

But it all boils down to donations & government grants.

For those who conclude that I am a very impatient man & always in a hurry , read the above post and understand I am responsible for so many poor goans suffering from chronic mental disabilities and for me time and energy is very important. 

Everyday there is some inmate on the loose in some home.

Most of our inmates are and will be permanent residents as long as they are alive so that responsibility is even more higher.

Finally I am at peace even though it's stressful that we @ Street Providence are doing the best we can, under extreme situations in attempting to breathe life or rather bring little smile into 160+ poor people suffering from severe mental disabilities ( 130 + are ethnic goans ) .

Next week we Will highlight a woman whose condition is so horrible that even I am in 2 minds to rehabilitate her or not .

It's difficult choices at times to make.

To our collaborators, landlords , benefactors we thank you for all the support shown to us last 7 years and counting.

Please do support us as we care for the worst case scenarios of our poor goans suffering from chronic mental disabilities. 

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25.5.2024. 8pm IST 

STREET PROVIDENCE GOA saves a life of poor goan girl from South Goa , whose weight was approx 25 kgs and haemoglobin was at 5 (g/dl ) of blood, where as the normal parameters for a lady should be between 11.6 and 15 grams per deciliter ( g/dl).

All her major other parameters were extremely below all prescribed norms.

3 weeks back we were requested by the girl sibling to please help as the girl in question was too too weak to stand and was living in horrible & pathetic conditions.

The siblings is working abroad and for over two years we are being requested to help.

We go to this girl home but either she does not open the door or just acts violent which makes our team return.

Sibling sends living expenses to the girl, but due to loneliness and heavy depression, she has been slipping month after month.

But this time Mr John Baptist from Fatorda, our long time trusted volunteer was entrusted the job of getting this girl out of her house by hook or by crook as any further delay would be suicidal,  resulting in death.

Being a cool man John used all his convincing power and got this girl admitted into a government hospital.

We were forced to hire a care giver for 24 hours which the sibling paid @ 2500+ per day which was for over 15 days.

But sorry to say nothing much happened as most government hospitals are overloaded with such poor people, that only prayers can save.

During these 15 days the haemoglobin from 5 reached 6 and that's when we shifted this poor goan girl to a private hospital for a few days in Porvorim which is closer to our office.

Today we discharged the poor goan girl whose haemeglobin is at 8.5 ( g / dl ) with iron injections being administered to her.

Today after 1 month, the girl ate a simple nutritious meal as the nurse has fed her physically.

Top it all – she is having symptoms of mental disabilities. Signs of TB too are visible.

A Very complicated scenario to sort out.

With our INHOUSE DOCTOR on board we are now prepared to handle such complicated & delicate admissions.

The Sibling is a very religious person and I am sure GOD heard the prayers and this time we managed to get the job done.

Off late many such deaths have been reported of hunger in Goa.

Major issues today in life is STRESS & DEPRESSION.

I am aware of many such instances where entire family members are abroad and only one single parent or sibling is here in Goa.

Their living conditions are sad & disappointing.

We are NOW ready to take up such cases as now we have a full time Doctor in house as well as 18+ nurses to care for such goans in need of Help.

We have two upgraded homes ( in the same building) for ladies & gents, to accept people especially bed ridden from families who can't be kept in the regular shelter homes with other Street psychiatric patients.

Our INHOUSE DOCTOR stays full time in this building and that gives us a opportunity to reach out to extreme cases where one require full time monitoring of their medical parameters.

I was really not sure that this girl would recover as her condition that day was extremely not good and being an NGO we usually don't go to anyone Home to admitt a patient.

But the sibling has been calling me for over two years and this time I just could not refuse to help.

Also we now have a full time INHOUSE DOCTOR & that's made this decision a little easy to respond to the sibling request.

But WE SAVED ONE LIFE which ultimately counts.

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On March 6th May 2024, many districts in Manipur experienced a severe hailstorm 

accompanied by strong winds. ( just like we saw in Mumbai today ) 

For as little as rs 6230/- , we can help one family with 3/6 = 1 bundle of  metal / tin sheets to cover their roof as well as a 50kgs bag of rice. 

Please check this on Google and see for yourself

The hailstorm resulted in extensive damage to properties, vegetation, and livelihoods, destroying approximately 15,417 houses that wreaked havoc in parts of Manipur. 

The affected districts, include Imphal East, Imphal West, Bishnupur, Thoubal, Kakching, 

Ukhrul, Tamenglong, Noney, Kangpokpi, Curachandpur, Kamjong, Chandel and Tengnoupalhave experienced varying degrees of damage to infrastructure and displacement of families.

While the hailstones shattered the roofs of the houses, other household articles and properties 

including granaries, essential food items and clothing have also been damaged. 

With the roofs broken beyond repair, people are now sleeping under tarpaulins and taking shelter with relatives.

The hailstorm affected people who have no roof over their head can’t wait for the government 

to collect damage reports to receive assistance.

They need immediate assistance. 

They can’t sleep under broken roofs amid rainfall. 

They need tin sheets to repair the roofs of their houses.

Immediate intervention is required to provide relief and support to the affected populations.

Street Providence Manipur has collaborated along with DSSS Imphal which comes under the Archdiocese of Imphal to reach out to 2000 such poor families who need help in the form of 

metal / tin sheets to cover their houses ASAP as well as a bag of 50kgs rice.

Our local staff in Imphal has reported about the terrible troubles the poor are going through as a result of this severe hail storm.

Our volunteers will be in Manipur after 4th of June 2024 to assist in the distribution of these relief items and provide relief to the poor.

We at the moment are not considering sending any material in a truck from Goa as its too much to handle in this heat.

It's time to once again support our NGO as we reach out to the poorest of the poor who have gone through enough of troubles for over a year and with no fixed source of income this natural calamity has just increased their agony & pain.

No negative comments please.

If you can't support it's okay no issue.

But imagine with as little as Rs 6230 you can brighten up a poor family during this calamity which they have just experienced.

You can also donate for Rice bags separately or metal / Tin sheets separately. 

Our team in Manipur has taken quotations from 3 suppliers at the moment and prices will fluctuate in due course of time due to many local factors.

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God bless you so much