Exactly one year back this BSC Graduate from Maharashtra was picked up by our NGO from the streets of Panjim in unhygienic conditions. 

For 4 full years earlier,  I was convincing him to get help but he refused as he was working as an attendant for rs 4000 a month at a Pay Toilet and sleeping and living in the same place. 

Entire amount was used for alcohol. 

Today after one year of rehabilitation he is back to Normal but wants to go back to the same streets but with a limp due the stroke. 

You must try to listen to the video 👇👇

Half English. Half konkani & Marathi 

Educated but drinking and got a stroke resulting in him being very weak in walking. 

If he starts drinking again he will be in bigger trouble as it's not alcohol but spirit / chemical that they drink on the streets. 

We took him in and stabilized him with PHYSIOTHERAPY but today he still wishes to go back as that ALCOHOL is his big issue. 

When we picked him he was signing a tune ” he wants to work and will work & he says he has a brother”. 

We even called his brother who says he is fed up with his drinking habit and is not keen to even talk to him. 

Stabilizing him took 6 to 8 months and later we tried to teach him medication for other men in the home. 

This job is the easiest work as he can't balance himself as he still has a limp with his leg due to his stroke but that too he can't manage. 

Just lazy inspite of being educated and having a limp due to the stroke. 

If he leaves our Home, he will be back from where he came from. 

Just because he feels better and a little strong he thinks that he is fit to start afresh and that too as a Waiter . 

If in our home where he is getting food, clothing , shelter, medication and Physiotherapy he is not grateful then you can imagine his condition once he leaves our Home. 

We tried and we did our best. 

More educated, more the attitude and EGO . 

I just pray that better sense strikes his CPU before he destroys his own health and life. 

We have a principal ” once you get better and leave the home and reach the streets and collapse we don't readmitt again under any circumstances “. 

Otherwise it sets a bad example to others . 

Rehabilitating and caring for the homeless with Disabilities and especially a stroke related person is not easy and costs alot to the NGO . 

And when you know that the person is going back to the streets its all more difficult to make such people change their mind . 

Sometimes i wonder why do people actually want to destroy and screw up their own lives. 

What would you do if you were in my place ? 

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God bless you all

Exactly 1 year back this Man from Orissa Mr Siddhu Das, picked from the streets of panjim and carried on a stretcher to our home.

Today after 1 year, same man  ABSOLUTELY fit and fine and walking upright.

This is the link when we picked him on 1.4.22

The below link is after 4 months  11.7.22

Attached a video of him today after exactly 1 year.

Will be put on a train soon and sent back to orissa.

We take in the most difficult and complicated cases and with a human touch, medication, nutritional food,  exercise and NOW PHYSIOTHERAPY sessions, results are guaranteed.

We work on each and every case in a way that healing and recovery has to happen.

It's not easy in the beginning in such pathetic and difficult cases , but slowly with a plan and with commitment, the healing and recovery starts to show. 

WE DARE TO DREAM .

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God bless you so much 

A VERY HAPPY EASTER to one and all on this blessed day . 

Our Trustees, staff and our shelter home residents wish you all A Happy Easter and thank you all who play their part in so many ways daily especially towards the homeless and the poor goan people with disabilities. 

Just as WE CELEBRATE EASTER believing that Christ Rose from the dead to set us free and give us a new life, we too have to provide that hand to the poor and homeless and give them an opportunity to restart their life again. 

And this EASTER Season we are doing just that @ Street Providence Goa. 

We are starting our 5TH SHELTER HOME FOR homeless street women soon 

Also our 1st NIGHT SHELTER for homeless street women. 

Both these projects are going to be in MURMAGAO TALUKA. 

For me any major occasion reminds me of the poor & homeless and this EASTER I feel the need to start another ie our 5th Home for homeless street women. 

Many times ladies on the streets are in need of   shelter at night and this is a big need of the hour in all major cities of Goa . 

Once we get this 1st Night shelter for Women running we will ATTEMPT to have such night shelter for homeless street women in all the remaining major cities of Goa. 

Once again A VERY BLESSED & HAPPY EASTER to all of you and remember the poor , hungry , homeless , the widows,  unwed mothers,  streets children and those suffering without any one to wipe those tears. 

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God bless you so much

“WELCOMING THE HOMELESS , is being with those who are simply created to be with us “

We are almost towards the end of this LENTEN SEASON 

Lent is a PROVIDENTIAL opportunity for fostering the spiritual detachment from riches necessary if we are to open ourselves to God.

STREET PROVIDENCE GOA Goa reaches out to 30 homeless people and poor people during this lenten season & we Welcomed most of them into our shelter homes.

These 30 are  suffering with mental disabilities & physical disabilities and most were provided rehabilitation as well as a few we got  them admitted into government hospitals, few are in hospital awaiting their paperwork and once treated then will be admitted in the shelter homes 

As we commenced 40 days of Lenten Season , we @ Street Providence had decided to take in 40 homeless ladies during these lenten period .

We managed to take in 9 ladies whose SILENT CRIES WE HEARD  but took in  20 men.

Of the 9 ladies we took in :

Of the 20 men we took in :

》1 is Maharashtrian 

Of which :

♡♡♡ We thank a huge no of BENEFACTORS who during these entire LENT season donated generously to all our requests made through various social media platforms.

We are committed to working with the homeless and the poor goans suffering from mental disabilities in Goa.

So many genuine requests are coming for help & rehabilitation and all our homes are full yet we are committed to taking in many more and we are starting atleast 2 more ladies shelter homes this Easter season in Goa.

Being poor , abandoned,  homeless, Ia widow,  divorced women, and club this with mental or physical disabilities is not easy for any man or woman living on the streets. 

It's. Cruel and tough life out there .

Your support through your prayers, wishes, donations or just forwarding our messages to friends and family makes a huge impact in our working for the homeless. 

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God bless you so much 

Finally The Lady In The Red Saree living for months on the streets , gardens, by lanes and sleeping on the stairs of Timothy Bldg. Near Lawande Electricals,  Luis Menezes Road, Panjim city has reached our shelter home today.

Herald newspaper & Herald TV early March 23 has highlighted this issue and it was disappointing that inspite of the media coverage she was still there, in panjim till this morning.

The below link was of her moving around on 1.3.2023 https://youtu.be/XwpDgR6ccmc

The red saree lady for years is sleeping under trees, 1st in siolim area and last few months in panjim city .

Lost her husband and I assume that has made her loose her mind . Got a son and a brother but both cant manage her due to her stubbornness in not taking medicines. 

We tried few years back helping her but very rough and aggressive so we did not push it.

This is where I get upset over treatment to such poor homeless Goan ladies. 

》1. We reported this lady to police & the press on 1.3.24  and SP North got her picked up and the cops took her to IPHB for a check up after the media highlighted the same .

》2. IPHB should have admitted her, but since the cops did not get the MAGISTRATE ORDER, she was given medication and the cops dropped her to her brother home.

》3. Next day back on the streets. Which I had predicted knowing the situations of such chronic patients .

》4. I called and followed up with Anjuna police who brought her brother & son to the station and both concluded that its just next to impossible to keep her at home but they gave the cops their affidavit that she can be admitted in street Providence shelter home, this was say by 12th March 2023.

》5. Last few days panjim police have been trying to locate her as well as our team tried & many locals were to locate her but some how WE ARE 

ALL TO OCCUPIED and she just stayed on the streets. 

》6. Society in that area expects the NGO to pick her up , NGO expects the society to show her location and Police are occupied with more important jobs. ( We including myself fail such homeless abandoned Street women).

》7. In the meantime we informed both PANJIM & ANJUNA police stations that incase they spot the lady please pick her up and call us.

》8. Today at 1 pm , Mr Alauddin Khan , PSI  was informed by the cops that the red saree lady is in a different colored Saree and immediately he got the cops to pick her up from the Mermaid Garden.

》9. We admitted her into our shelter home and tomorrow morning will be taken to IPHB for am assessment and she has to be admitted for a few days into IPHB otherwise it's going to be really difficult to handle her.

As I write this post it's 8.20 pm , and already the lady is making life in our women shelter home a little difficult infact we had to get the lady cops from Calangute police station to visit our Home at 6pm which they obliged.

What could have been done one month back ay IPHB will be done tomorrow. 

PLEASE SAY ONE SMALL PRAYER THAT THE CONSULTANT DOCTOR @ IPHB tomorrow admits this red saree lady else there will be major issues and we night Even have to send her back to the streets, as she is beyond our control.

Its a real difficult issue that both POLICE & OUR NGO faces at times IN IPHB to admitt such highly chronic people suffering from mental disabilities.

Police at time just don't feel or don't get the time to go through the process of getting the MAGISTRATE ORDER due to this process being an 6 to 8 hours ordeal and 1 car and 4 staff are required .

Some times DOCTOR consultants at IPHB refuse to even listen to our requests to admitt such chronic cases even though they know that these cases require admission and treatment before admitting into our homes. 

The LAWS are such that without either using political pressure, begging at the CONSULTANT DOCTORS or even at times getting upset and loosing my cool, these admissions are not happening.

We have been hearing this Lady SILENT CRIES on the STREETS last 1 month and quite often I would check with the Panjim cops or I would send our team afternoon time for a round to see if we could find her.

I don't give up that easily as each life counts and these type of people are badly in need of help and a permanent shelter as medications is life long.

She is totally under nourished and under weight with all her troubles on her mind.

God only knows how much of trouble she must have gone through over the last few years, the pains of being a widow, being rejected, lonely, abused and unwanted. 

But thats all the past as she will now be treated,  medicine will be administered and she will be rehabilitated in a home with other ladies for company with food clothing & shelter. 

And this services are all free for the poorest of the poor and the homeless people suffering from mental disabilities. 

Please do support us as we take in more and more of such abandoned homeless goan people daily .

Www.streetprovidencegoa.com 

Rehabilitating homeless street people where most of them are sick and suffering from mental & physical disabilities is not easy service but with the support of the GOVERNMENT its a welcome sign and a blessing.

What started as an small service in 2017 has translated into something unbelievable yet possible.

Government is giving grants, only thing is 

” one needs to do the actual work on the ground”

It's not big money but any grant from any government is a welcome sign of support from the Government to the NGO.

When any Government department supports any NGO especially by way of Grant's year after year, one needs to  highlight the same as the Department too needs to be appreciated.

Usually many many organisation's mumble and grumble that Government is not releasing funds or grants in time.

But at Street Providence it's different.

We go through serious issues at times in various government departments but then that's part and parcel of the NGO to overcome the hurdles and focus on getting the grants/ funds.

Consistency in the work on the field, non stop follow up and huge paperwork is the key to getting the funds and grants from any government department.

♡♡♡ We thank WOMEN & CHILD DEPARTMENT for releasing our grants / orders to one of the four  women homes we run  @ Calangute, consistently last 4 years upto 31.3.2023 .

For the year ended 31.3.2023 , we have another 3 women shelter homes and our grants will be released in this accounting year 23-24.

Of these 3 homes :

During the year 22-23 we applied to the Social Welfare Department to Start 2 Physiotherapy centre's for the 125 + homeless Persons with Disabilities @ our NGO , one in North Goa & one in South Goa.

Our North Goa grant was approved within a quick period of time.

Civil Supplies Department started giving our NGO 265 kgs free rice for 53 homeless people @ 5 kgs each per month from 1.3 2023 and this is going to be every month.

At Street Providence we too understand various government departments issues and we try our best to see how we can address their issues.

We understood the issues faced at the central Jail Colvale and we got BENEFACTORS to donate A water dispenser & A second hand automatic chapati machine which makes 900 chapatis an hour through our NGO.

Goa Police, the 1st line of direct contact with the homeless street people,  which we thank them for for ATLEAST trying to get the genuine homeless street people off the streets , as a small gesture,  we got sponsors for 2 brand new Xerox machines and we also got a sponsor who gave away 135 bundles of xerox paper reels / bundles specifically for all the 26 police stations in Goa 

We brought cheer to 3 government primary Schools in rural Goa by installing water purifiers.

We are not just takers but also givers.

( Attached 2 excel sheets )

Homelessness is an issue which all government department will not want to discuss and accept, but we @ Street Providence have to go on hitting the nail on the head in all government departments reminding them continuously that our NGO is working towards the rehabilitation & welfare of the homeless & the poor goans suffering from disabilities ” so please help and support us “.

I end this post with Special thanks to 2 powerful government officials, simple yet approachable men having understanding & compassion to our work.

Those reading this post might conclude that our NGO is getting alot of grants from the Government.

In reality the grant given to us is designed and calculated many years back say in 2006 when the cost of rehabilitation of the homeless was affordable and today in 2023 the inflation has doubled and tripled.

But like I said earlier in the post ” getting government grants/ funds/ support is always a good sign that Government is supporting the homeless through the NGO “.

Well with the grants received we keep adding more homes and more projects towards Rehabilitating more homeless and poor goans with disabilites on the streets of Goa.

These are the homeless we rehabilitated :

The main issue is inflation and price rise which is the most troublesome issue today at our NGO and constant funding daily is the only solution to rehabilitating the homeless street people and poor goans with disabilites coupled with grants from the Government. 

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God bless you all

A small NGO taking care of poor homeless people with mental disabilites spends a WHOPPING Rs 14 lacs a year on diagnostics/ medical costs , hospitalization and transportation from all our 8 shelter homes across Goa to IPHB & other Government hospitals.

As we end this finacial year today, Street Providence Goa thanks all our ESTEEMED BENEFACTORS who have stood with us during this entire accounting year and I am assured of all our benefactors support in the coming financial year.

Our main service @ Street Providence is caring for the homeless street people and poor goan people suffering from mental disabilities as well as physical disabilities. 

In our Shelter Homes we have women & men  suffering from :

And the most challenging & difficult part in the shelter homes is keeping the 165 + inmates fit and healthy , especially in the mind .

With over 125 + inmates suffering from major mental disabilities it's always a challenge to keep peace , law & order and everyone happy all the time in all 8 shelter homes in Goa.

Alot of people genuinely ask me and alot of benefactors must be always thinking ” how do we manage to run these shelter homes for the poor homeless and poor goan people suffering from mental disabilities ?”

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Usually psychiatric homes are run by professional doctors & Psychiatrist but @ our NGO we DARE TO DREAM as non of our staff and our trustees are doctors or Psychiatrist but yet we are doing the service FREE OF COST for the 5th year and running.

I can humbly claim ” looking after & rehabilitating people with disabilites especially mental disabilities is a CALLING & an GIFT “.

It's an ART, where we have learnt in taking care of more than 125 + pchyistric patients and all our care givers and staff do their job with love & compassion.

Once you learn the ART & master the ART, caring for people with mental disabilities is VERY EASY.

Three main points we follow at our homes : Systematic admission of daily medication, proper assessment , 

These 3 points done faithfully day after day is what makes our NGO year after year increase the intake of homeless people and poor goans suffering from disabilities. 

Last year end 31.3.2022  we had about 100+ psychiatric homeless & poor goan people suffering from mental disabilities and we spent RS 7 LACS only on diagnostics / medical costs, hospitalization & transportation from all our 6 homes at that time to the IPHB & other Government hospitals. 

This year end 31.3.2023 , we have close to 165 + homeless and poor goans suffering from mental & physical disabilities and we spent Rs 14 lacs+ only on their medications, hospitalization & transportation.

Attached 2 charts of 21-22 & 22-23

Coming March 2024 we might be adding another 50 to 75 such patients as mental disabilities is rising both on the streets & among the poor goan people.

Nurses and hospital staff 

Without whose support & guidance we would never ever be able to provide care and rehabilitation to so many homeless people and poor goans suffering from mental disabilities. 

North Goa & South Goa, District hospitals for all the services and admissions done whenever required without our NGO keeping an attendant.

♡♡♡ To all the Doctors & nurses at GMC , we feel happy that all our requests for admissions, treatment & operations are done without we being harrased to keep an attendant.

Both IPHB & DHS provide free medication but at times due to non availability of certain drugs we are forced to buy fron outside.

List of generic Medicines we buy from Antila :

List of generic Medicine we buy from Saya Care :

All these are not given FREE in any Government hospitals and some of the above are quite expensive.

Diapers are a huge cost to our NGO as you don't get free in any Government hospital and we have close to 17 to 22 physically disabled men & women on diapers.

Thank God , generic medicine is available otherwise our medicine bill @ allopathic pharmacies is a big kill.

To our medical benefactors especially one from panjim & one company from Vasco who for the last 5 years month after month send rs 3000 & rs 5000 worth of medicines based on our requirements. THANK YOU. This itself adds to Rs 1 lac a year 

To all those benefactors who month after month buy and give us adult diapers.  it's a big big thank you . This is another Rs 60000 a year. 

To all our loving and compassionate BENEFACTORS who we THANK on this post, this is how we utilize part of the donations you send us month after month.

Our BENEFACTORS are supporting our NGO in  fighting a battle against ever increasing homelessness & mental disabilities among the poorest of the poor in Goa.

Please do support our NGO from 1.4.2023 through your prayers , blessings, donations or even by forwarding our messages to atleast 10 of your contacts daily. 

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God bless you so much 

30.3.2023. 5pm IST  

A DRUNKARD once upon a time in his life to now A COOK & total Teetotalar. 

Once upon a time this Goan elderly man was abandoned and totally helpless, today a No 1 Cook in our shelter Home but on medication which Needs to be administered on time.

( Short video attached  )👇👇

Street Providence Goa not only takes in helpless, old, elderly, abandoned & homeless people with disabilites but we make them get their life back to an extent they are now ready to help the others who are helpless 

Agnel is unmarried and was living alone in his small house @ Colvale in miserable conditions and was totally weak and sick & an alcoholic.

Neighbour's would give him food and most of the basic amenities were missing in his house .

The Parish priest of Colvale church Fr Arlino helped him by bringing him to my notice for rehabilitation permanently.

We took Agnel in Jan 22 and he was a very very stubborn and irritating man who refused to stay and one day he slipped out of the home , slid down from the 2nd floor on to a coconut tree and walked away. ( picture attached )

Believe me , last year , Agnel was very weak and with a walking stick he would move around but how he slid down that coconut tree is very strange.

We found him soon.

( Picture of the tree & the 2nd floor attached  )

Diabetics, pressure,  alcohol withdrawal, wounds on his leg was his medical condition. 

Most of all HE WAS VERY WEAK .

All our CARE GIVERS are trained to tolerate such men as its only LOVE & HUMAN CARE which eventually breaks down such men.

Mr Akash Pednekar our care giver at Quepem home admitted him atleast 10 times in District hospital margao mostly at night just to stabilize him which was very irritating and troublesome as he just refused to listen.

Some where in October 22 , Agnel started falling in line as he now understood that Street Providence is his permanent home.

Agnel understood that inspite of all his troubles and tantrums, Akash still cared and loves him just like a son loves his father.

AKASH PEDNEKAR LOVE & PATIENCE paid off.

Slowly Agnel started working in the house and his diabetics & pressure was getting under control. 

His weight increased.  Hospital admissions were a thing of the past. 

AGNEL FOUND PEACE WITH HIMSELF & that is OUR SUCCESS in our REHABILITATION HOME. 

Today we have an Extra Cook who can cook for 30 men  in our shelter home and Agnel is alive and active and Cooks at our Cavelossim men home. 

Each elderly man in our shelter home standing. WALKING & working means less pressure on the care givers otherwise they end up with Pampers and get wounds and bed bound.

Agnel today does alot of work for his age in the home and he is an inspiration to the other elderly men.

It's next to impossible for me to believe last January 22 when we took Agnel in that he would be ever Normal and totally active in life again.

It was a difficult case on the day of the admission but we could not say NO as AGNEL was in a very pathetic and unhealthy condition.

Agnel needed a hand and we are proud to have helped him that day on 7.1.2022.

♡♡♡ All thanks and appreciation goes to Mr Akash Pednekar our care giver at Quepem home who inspite of working 8 hours a day  in the Electricity Department is practically 15 hours a day after his shift in this shelter home where he physically stays day and night with these homeless men numbering at times 40 to 50.

Akash Pednekar works also in shifts at the Electricity Department. 

It gives us all happiness & satisfaction to see such recoveries taking place month after month,  year after year in all our mens shelter homes.

♡♡♡ We thank all our trustees, staff , Government officials,  volunteers, BENEFACTORS. philanthropic partners and well wishers who some way along this journey of mine has blessed us in this service to the homeless.

We are not just a rehabilitation Home but we are a de addiction centre for alcoholic & drug abuse as well as a registered care centre with the Social Welfare Department Panjim for the poor goan people suffering from severe mental disabilities & all tyoes of physical disabilities for both men & women.

Www.streetprovidencegoa.com 

God bless you so much 

STREET PROVIDENCE GOA HEARS the SILENT CRIES of this lost & homeless abandoned lady ( might be suffering from mental disabilities) and we open our shelter doors at 11.30 pm last night.

Quick response and good service from Goa Police @ Quepem Police Station, all within 4 hours flat, which resulted in this homeless lady getting off the streets of Quepem and into our home.

Lady is totally disoriented and not having much control over her mind as she keeps speaking different things when asked the same question.

No identity, no phone or no any papers with her to understand where and who she is .

Tomorrow morning will be taken to IPHB for an assessment. 

Incase any one from QUEPEM / CURCHOREM seen her or know her please let us know.

Usually all are shelter homes and most other shelter homes wind up and lights off by 9.30 pm max 10 pm .

But we @ Street Providence especially the women's shelter home @ Cavelossim always gets requests after 11.30 pm and Sr Mariya our incharge is always enthusiastic to break her sleep,  open the doors and receive such homeless and abandoned Street women. 

All our shelter homes accepts homeless people especially brought by the Police 24 *7 , timing not an issue and we understand that inspite of breaking our sleep we are much more comfortable in our Homes in our cozy beds and it's our commitment to open our shelter doors to such requests. 

Infact I too stay awake whenever there is an admission late night as all our homes are on CCTV and I monitor each such late night admission on my phone which has close to 120 CCTVs running continously on my phone.

Just like the care giver breaks the sleep to admitt an admission I too break my sleep as that's my job to see that everything goes to the plan and there are no issues. 

Our 8 homes have almost 120 cameras operating and that's how we keep track of the activities in the homes daily. 

If you see such homeless people especially women on the streets please go to the nearest police station and meet the cops. 

We are having Homes for both ladies & gents 

We are in North & South Goa.

Tomorrow we have a hectic day , as we take in 4 homeless men from a government hospital.

Being close to the end of third financial year as well as we approach the last few days of LENT  we request you to support our work especially our rehabilitation of the homeless street people.

We offer you Income tax exemption under section 80G on your donations. 

Www.streetprovidencegoa.com 

God bless you so much