Can u imagine living in hospitals for over 15 months ? 

And add to that being old, abandoned, unable to walk properly, no bowel control, sleeping on the floor on a hospital mattress and not sure what to do next. 

Yesterday we accepted for PALLATIVE CARE from District hospital margao,  into our shelter home , these 2 elderly homeless abandoned men.

One is bed ridden and orher struggling to walk.

And I am told that many other NGOs were coming to this hospital for months but non volunteered  to rehabilite both these men as both are very very difficult cases to handle.

@ Street Providence WE DARE TO DREAM.

Yes a whopping 15 MONTHS 

Totally not in control of his bowel moments , very very weak and undernourished, was living on a hospital mattress on the floor and just ignored.

Can't walk straight and got some major leg issues.

Watch the 2 minutes video.👇👇

Our volunteer Mr John Baptist has taken alot of trouble to get all the required paperwork ready in the last 2 months as most of the system at district hospital margao is not favoring rehabilitation of homeless in this government hospital which is a big setback to the poor and homeless abandoned here. 

A sad state of affairs for both these men.

We will attempt to provide FREE Pallative care to the extent we can manage and afford to these two men.

It's not an easy task and that's the reason one of these men has been ignored and has been living for 15 MONTHS in a hospital.

We @ Street Providence are more of Hardcore ground work rehabilitation.

We put our effort at the weakest and neglected section of society be it :

Your Continues support to our NGO is required so that we can provide so many services to the homeless , to the poor goans suffering from disabilities and to the street people.

This is what drives us to do what we are called to do and with commitment and care.

Some times the requests are pathetic and difficult to consider but WE DARE TO DREAM.

Www.streetprovidencegoa.com 

God bless you so much 

STREET PROVIDENCE GOA requires your help to  raise Rs 4 lacs to repair our biggest men's rehabilitation home at Quepem which is having some major unavoidable issues.

》1. Monkeys are around the roof and tiles are getting broken. Hence we require 50 nos powder coated sheets of 18 feet each on this roof.

》2. Sleeping space is an issue , but there is a 

75 Sq Mt hall on the 2nd floor which is of plain red coated rough floor, which we require to fit floor tiles so that atleast 10 to 15 men can sleep at night on mats.

》3. We need to increase urinals as these men keep wasting water as they just go on flushing the water when ever they use the washrooms as they suffer from mental disabilities including water phobia.

Our Quepem home for homeless men has a capacity of 80 men with close to 20 rooms.

Most of the men are suffering from severe mental disabilities.

But we Have never crossed rehabilitating more than 50 men at any point of time.

For these reasons :

Remaining 13 rooms @ 4 men per room makes it very difficult to live in.

The rooms are 16 sq mtrs each .

Plus some men have chronic skin disease which needs isolation and some men are on Pampers as they can't control their toilet movements which it itself at times is a form of disability.

So bathing the men is a big issue.

We have only 6 washroom cum toilets and 7 bathing rooms.

This home was innaugrated in Nov 21 and before we started this home it was closed for over 12 years so all the infrastructure is old and needs constant upgradation

We had collected donations of Rs 15 lacs through 20 benefactors in Sept 2021 to repair and start this home and for close to 18 months this home was being used to rehabilitate the homeless until the following issues started.

We are close to a situation that very soon we will have to reduce drastically intake the homeless as all homes are getting overloaded and this home in particular at QUEPEM being the biggest can only accommodate another 20 men but has the worst water issue at the moment and Sanitation is a big issue.

We can accept help also in kind like :

Or you can please donate through cheque or NEFT so that our homeless street men with mental disabilities can be taken care off before the monsoon kicks in at this big home at QUEPEM.

All queries and questions can be done through whatsapp on 8380097564.

One can also visit this home with an appointment to see for yourself incase you wish to help us repair this home.

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God bless you so much 

Goan woman suffering from mental disabilities, married off without telling the husband,

chronic case of running away on trains,

now not wanted by both families & 

suffering from complicated disabilities. 

Very often we hear in print and social media platforms about missing people suffering from mental disabilities who walked away or just disappearing and weeks or months later found dead. 

Well rarely you hear though print or social media how few kind hearted souls actually find such people suffering from mental disabilities especially on far away railway stations or bus stops thousands of kms away and take the trouble to get them back home. 

But angels do exist in this world and recently such an angel dropped this lost Goan lady on a platform 1200 kms away from margao station right back to her family in Goa, without a single charge. 

And we have such many  such ladies in our psychiatric rehabilitation homes with these running away symptoms on trains or bus to far away states. 

The issue here is ” mid way homes or half way homes to rehabilitate such people with disabilities are not available”. 

This goan lady close to 50 years as of today was suffering from mental disabilities about 10 years back and still her mother got her married a couple of months back saying it's just depression 

Husband works 24 hours duty and next day 24 off so basically it's not possible for him to administer the medication to his wife and that's how the issue is going haywire. 

Last few weeks she has reached her mother's home and now uncontrollable. 

Both sides are blaming each other. 

Ultimately if not treated and rehabilitated life will be one day lost in some tragic way. 

And this is not an isolated case but there are huge no of such ladies suffering from this situation. 

So many questions in my mind leave alone the families suffering from such issues and daily who go thru such traumas . 

It's a fight with an unseen and undefeatable enemy which is the most frustrating part at the moment. 

At some point of time, our homes  will get full and we too will throw up our hands and just watch innocent lives going no where. 

Its a matter of great concern that more and more young goans are diagnosed as persons with mental Disabilities and yet the state government,  religious heads,  religious institutions, big time NGOs , are not showing any interest in starting mid way homes to rehabilitate the ever rising no of people In goa and this issue is bound to snow ball into a crisis very soon. 

I and my entire team have no formal education either of being students of MSW or any clinical psychology courses or any psychiatric education but we have developed and acquired hard core ground work experience and ground reality, living with and caring for close to 800 such severe, chronic and hard core people suffering from mental & physical disabilities disabilities last 5 years 

It's a choice I made and it's a difficult calling in today world of fast life and fast money. 

But we require more homes and more collaboration to address the issues of rising no of people suffering from mental disabilities. 

Government is supporting us @ our NGO  and I can't complain much against the government but its the rising nos which is troubling me. 

If we refuse due to genuine reasons especially because of SPACE shortage in the homes , we are criticized and the families feel offended that we are simply refusing admissions. 

If we take more than we can accommodate,  the infrastructure in the homes takes a hit and that causes inconvenience to all the inmates. 

Most of the times the requests are genuine & pathetic that if we don't admit, that life can and will be lost forever. 

If you reading my posts regularly Have any concrete suggestions to help us solve the issues we are facing then pls whatsapp me on 8380097564. 

Ideas are not required. 

Practical suggestions are needed if you are having any valid ones. 

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God bless you so much 

” I don't care about my sister as last 25 years our family has suffered SHAME and we have no friends & relatives because she is suffering from mental disabilities “.

The amount of requests for admissions into our PCHYISTRIC HOMS from our own Goans suffering from mental & intellectual disabilities is driving me nuts.

Everyday our manager Gets 3 to 4 requests which he brings to me to decide.

As if today we have accumulated close to 40 such requests from POOR LOCAL GOANS  and we might take 2 months to admitt these 40 by which the no waiting for admission after 2 months will be another 40 to 60.

It's FREAKING CRAZY service we have started and we are offering.

Last week this particular family approached us for rehabilitation and help and were like telling me ” pls keep our sister permanently with you as we don't want her back “

And she is only 45 years old and I was like ” what are they taking & thinking “.

25 years back as a young teenager this goan girl was married off and was forced to do cooking and dish washing in her husband Home which she could not and was sent back home but the husband Kept the child.

Husband got remarried and got more children and refused to give her child back neither any support .

Thinking about the failed marriage and the family Shame this goan lady showed symptoms of Schizophrenia and other mental issues and parents would take her regularly or often to IPHB for medication

But parents entrusted or believed that the daughter would take the medication on her own which she was not taking. rather just throwing it out.

Other sibling got married and now after 22 years the parents are old and stressed.

Non of the siblings are able or willing to look after her as she has turned violent and difficult for the sibling to handle as they are having their own children and no family member will want their small children to live with a highly volatile aunty who is extremely dangerous and uncontrollable.

Often admitted into IPHB , parents stays 15 days with the daughter, discharges her and again same story repeats.

Father is now dead and mother is weak.

It can reach a point that she might even be just knocked off as no one in the family wants to carry on this nightmare.

A few months back some proposal was arranged & she was re married with the new husband/ man and within a week she was sent back home to the parents as they had not told the future husband that she is suffering from mental disabilities. 

That added more depression to the lady making live even more stressful and difficult for all.

Now in Goa where are the government homes or mid way homes for such people?

No lady activists are raising these issues and no authority is showing any concern to this silent but rising issue.

Today we have agreed to take her in.

We convinced & counseled the family siblings that we will get her stabilised within a few  months and every two month each of the sibling looks after her once discharged  from our home and if in the future she requires re admission we will rehabilte again.

All agreed and went back to their homes refreshed and understood that she is their own blood.

When they entered the office they were like ” let's kill her or dispose of her in some orher state, why go thru more stress ? “.

Like this case I will upload a few more sad and pathetic cases of our local goans who if not helped with rehabilitation will either end up dead or taken advantage once on the streets or will just be walking to no where with no one bothered to go and find them.

I hope the CONCERNED GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS & MINISTERS on my broadcsts will read this post and do something about those local goan people suffering from mental disabilities.

We are getting overloaded. 

Our grants are not given in time both by women & Child Department and Social Welfare Department. 

Grants are promised but just delayed for silly reasons.

We are ready to increase our current capacity from 200 beds to 300 or even 400 beds but we should get uninterrupted support from the Government.

Resources are slowing down, it's going to be election season for the next 18 months so no authority will want to take interest in these issues, space is a constraint, donations are taking a slight hit , etc.

Very soon to accommodate the local goans we night have to stop taking migrants and those non goans lying abandoned in hospitals into our homes as its just going out of control.

Too many homeless on the streets and too many poor locals are suffering from mental disabilities who are reaching the streets as families are not able to care for them.

Already with 165 admissions of which 135 are pchyistric patients all our homes are overloaded at the moment.

Please do support us in your prayers, blessings,  wishes,  donations or just by forwarding our messages to your near and dear ones.

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God bless you so much 

This Goan man Mr LEOPOLD from Camurlim Bardez has been living on the streets for quite some months.

Today our Manager Mr Sapnesh Salgaonkar picked him up right outside the compound wall of DMC college Assagao.

Sapnesh has been seeing Mr LEOPOLD sitting, sleeping and living right on the road last 7 days & today he just could not see him In this unbeatable heat anymore. 

Infact last Sunday, Mr LEOPOLD was spotted in Assagao area on the road and Mr Felly Gomes who had posted on his wall.

Mr LEOPOLD Is suffering I assume from mental disabilities and has practically no one look after him at his home in CAMURLIM.

Poverty , loneliness, uneducated,  sickness and may be troubled by others who make fun or threw stones on such people making them move from place to place non stop. 

Infact last Sunday I assume Goa Police @ Anjuna police station picked him up and dropped him home which made him again walk and that's how this entire week he is sleeping under a tree right on the road.

I have myself LEOPOLD many many times over the last 1 year roaming and walking endlessly but as usual ” we are all occupied in our own lives that such people are not my problem ” 

It's a system gone out of control.

And at times our services towards rehabilitation of the homeless with disabilites are questioned

Today our shelter home has 100 , yes 100 + such ethnic GOANS picked up from streets,  hospitals,  market places who have no one to go back to .

Yes no one at all.

Since they are on medication for mental disabilities and have no one to give them their medications, they reach the streets. 

Today close to 500 such ethnic GOANS are on the streets due to their mental sickness.

And I have strong proof to support this no.

191 villages & 14 municipalities. 

Just take 2 per village and 10 per municipality.

And these nos are rising really fast.

We are getting calls and requests daily from many people but we can't reply or please all.

All our homes are already over loaded and it's getting really difficult. 

Tuesday,  Mr Leopold will be taken to the IPHB for an assessment and will be treated for stability.

My one request never doubt our work just because one thinks in Goa there r no poor people

It depends where you are living and how you are traveling in Goa.

One only understands pain when one cuts one own finger.

We are the only NGO in Goa , continously accepting homeless and abandoned poor goans with disabilities into our shelter homes. 

Your support plays a big part in our work towards caring for the homeless and the abandoned.

Www.streetprovidencegoa.com 

God bless you all

FOOD BANK FOR THE POOR SANGOLDA GOA is attempting to feed 5000 meals on labour day.

Labour day is celebrated in India on 1st May.

Last year on LABOUR DAY we attempted to feed 5000 meals but managed only 4400 meals all within 2 hours.

As usual, We are partnering with NAVTARA group of Restaurants across Goa to move these pre packed vegetarian food packets .

We intend to cover:

if you wish to be part of this program of feeding these attempted 5000 meals on 1.5.2023  then please get in touch with me thru whatsapp only  on 8380097564.

You can walk into any NAVTARA Restaurant outlet across Goa ie at 

Siolim , Mapusa , Panjim , Calangute, Porvorim & Margao and purchase a food coupon worth Rs 40 and drop it in our BOX which is on the counter.

Or you can donate to our NGO online and we will use the donation to purchase these pre packed meals on labour day.

It's a small gesture from our food bank towards the poorest of the poor on LABOUR DAY .

Usually we feed daily approx 1000 meals in Goa through our Food Bank round the year all 12 months last 5 years.

But on labour day it's just ab attempt to reach out across different parts of Goa through our volunteers and team members.

A small meal to bring a little smile on the poor and the labour class. 

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God bless you all

STREET PROVIDENCE GOA starts THE GIVING BACK BANK. 

We are accepting all usable items to give away to the poorest of the poor. 

And this post is covering basically clothes , shoes and school accessories. 

This are the items which we are keen to accept :

Schools and colleges are closed for the summer vacations and parents may be upgrading the needs of one own children. 

But on the other side,  thousands of poor children in Goa & rural India might be able to use that water bottle or that pair of shoes or just need a few clothes. 

We have created this GIVING BACK BANK as you and us can fill in the gaps with the poor by we accepting your extra items and you giving away in SYSTEMATIC & laid down procedures the above mentioned items. 

You need to understand that you are not doing a FAVOUR by giving away your items but you are doing a SERVICE towards your fellow Indians who may and surely are not as blessed as you since you are blessed to give away your extra items for a cause and to the poorest of the poor. 

To reduce poverty we need to help the poor get an education and to go-to school, poor children in rural parts needs note books,  school bags , water bottles, shoes, clothes, Etc 

This is the little we all can do to bring SMILES ON THE FACES of the poorest of the poor children in rural parts . 

Please be free to get in touch with me STRICTLY through whatsapp messages only on 8380097564. 

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God bless you all

STREET PROVIDENCE GOA accepts this abandoned  Goan senior citizen suffering from Disabilities from the District hospital Margao today. 

Mr Joaozinho Fernandes is from post Waddo , betel, quepem and for over a month he has been in the district hospital margao for treatment but no one has come to discharge him.

Says he has wife and two daughters but looks like he is left alone.

Brother admitted him that what he says. 

PRO @ district hospital margao, Mr Sarfraj was kind enough to see that he reaches a shelter home rather than going to the streets 

Tired,  stressed and weak at the moment .

Says he used to work for some priests as well as worked at a current MLA house ( not the quepem MLA ) .

It will take time for Mr Joaozinho to recover his strength and be fully fit to be up and walking.

Incase anyone recignises him pls do let us know.

He can stay as long as he wants in the shelter home.

Tomorrow we are taking another homeless man again from this hospital. 

Special thanks to Mr John Baptist our Volunteer from Fatorda for all the co ordination between the hospital , the cops and our NGO ,in getting this goan man to our home after completing all the necessary paperwork. 

We are the only NGO in Goa , continously accepting homeless and abandoned poor goans with disabilities into our shelter homes. 

Your support plays a big part in our work towards caring for the homeless and the abandoned.

Www.streetprovidencegoa.com 

God bless you all