Category Archives: Updates

10Mar/21

WE ARE NOW GIVING THESE HOMELESS AN IDENTITY BY MAKING THEIR ADHAAR CARDS

Updates
10.3.2021 6 pm IST
STREET PROVIDENCE TRUST GOA requires your help to give an identity to the homeless. 
Street Providence Goa :
feeds the homeless on the streets, 
picks and rehabilitate the old and sick from the streets, hospitals etc .
runs mobile clinic on the streets ,
Etc. 
Now we have gone 1 step up .
We are now giving these homeless an identity by making their ADHAR CARDS .
Thanks to an expert on disability , who is 
An Asst Prof at IPHB who showed me the way to get an adhar card done for the homeless & the Staff of Planning, Statistics & Evaluation, Porvorim who conducted the 1st such camp today at our home.
And the 1st to get this benefit have been 6 homeless women from our women home .
Attached a few pictures of the Camp 
International women Day was on the 8th and today we ran a camp in our home and this Is how, Street Providence sees the homeless women in our home .
Women with identify. 
Looking after homeless street people is the biggest , toughest and most complicated services among all sections of homes .
Here no one pays u any fees ,
If you get government support you are blessed ,
Survival is through donations, 
Paperwork kills you .
But everyone wants you to admitt and help those on the streets. 
If I go back to them and tell them to sign the form, they refuse.
Rules and regulations are many which are at times mind blowing. 
Its has been really time consuming and tiring in helping the poor, homeless, marginalized especially with the paperwork and the mentality of those in power who can actually do any job in 1 signature but make you go round and round endlessly.
Always remember POWER IS NOT PERMANENT. 
There Is a new rule in the country that any one looking after anyone with any sort of disability ( whether paid or free ) have to register themselves with the Social Welfare Department ( SWD)
To register with SWD , each disable person needs to get a disability certificate from GMC or IPHB.
To get this certificate, the disabled person requires an adhar card .
To make an adhar card , one requires documents. 
But homeless people especially with mental disability at times cant even remember their own names, forget documents. 
Now we are aware any home can be shut down without getting the registration done with SWD.
But very often i have experienced in many government offices , officials going out of their way to help me once I tell them what and how we do towards the homeless street people in Goa .
So we make endless trips to the Department of Planning and Statistics, Porvorim and Mrs Maggi & her team are very co operative and explain the procedure which is quite time consuming but possible. 
There is a certain form to be filled of these homeless people and has to be certified by Gazetted officer. 
We are grateful to Dr Roshan from Primary Health Centre, Candolim , who visits our home in Calangute and certifies on the form regarding these 6 homeless street women.
The form need to be filled accurately and three times we made mistakes and had to go back to Dr Roshan to get his signature which he obliged. 
Today, the department of planning and statistics visited our home in Calangute and conducted a drive to enroll the six homeless women for an Aadhar card of which three are goans .
We still have 85 + homeless people in our homes who require to get identity in the form of Aadhar card
If there are any gazetted officers in Goa you can support us by signing on this forms please let me know so that we can give this homeless people an identity.
Each gazetted officer can sign 10 or 12 forms, no need to sign all 85 at one time.
For us @ Street Providence , it treating and caring for the homeless just like they are our own home people. 
Yes at times we get tiring and stressful as many are just dumped by their loved ones or by their former employees .
But after a little scrubbing, denting , polishing, painting these once upon a time condemned people are a bright light both in their lives and in the lives of others.
Once again please come forward and help us incase you are :
☆ An MLA
☆ A GAZETTED OFFICER Group A
☆ A GAZETTED OFFICER Group B
☆ A SARPANCH or A COUNCILOR 
☆ A HEAD OF A RECOGNISED 
☆ EDUCATIONAL Institute .
We require your signature after you visit our homes and see the homeless people with your eyes .
As usal all communication through WhatsApp messages only on 8380097564.
God bless you for helping me .
Donald Fernandes 
8380097564 / 7020314848
09Mar/21

LOOKING FOR THE FOLLOWING KITCHEN ITEMS FOR OUR HOMES.

Updates
9.3.2021 7pm IST
STREET PROVIDENCE TRUST GOA rehabilitation homes are looking for the following kitchen items for our homes. 
Second hand kitchen items will be accepted incase you have anything in your home which you are not using or have in excess .
We will come and pick from your home on the condition you whatsap me the picture.
In case you wish to purchase anything new and give, do check with me before you purchase. 
Incase you require any clarification please be free to WhatsApp a message to me on 8380097564. No calling please. 
We will also share whatever we collect extra with other poor families where we monthly provide dry ration.
This is the list :
▪︎1. Big serving spoons (ladles) – 9 nos
▪︎2. Big serving spoons with perforation – 3
▪︎3. Chapati turner (kaylatto) – 6 nos
▪︎4. Non stick tava (chapatti) – 3 nos
▪︎5. Deep frying pan (2 handles) – 3 nos
▪︎6. Containers with lid – (Masalas ) – 3 sets
▪︎7. Aluminum plate stand – 3 nos
▪︎8. Cutting knives – 12 nos.
▪︎9. Aluminum basin for washing rice – 9 no
▪︎10. Shallow frying pan – 3 nos
▪︎11. Big steel tray (serve tea) – 6 nos
▪︎12. Dust bins (big) – 9 nos
▪︎13. Cutting board (big) – 3 nos
▪︎14. Gas lighters (big) – 12 nos
▪︎15. Potato peelers- 6 nos
▪︎16. Tong pincer to hold hot utensils (Pakkad) – 3 nos
▪︎17. Chapatti board & Rolling pin – 3 nos
We also attached a poster with this message. 
Incase you have these 2nd hand items and they in good condition we will accept. 
Please DONATE generously towards our NGO .
We offer you 50% , income tax exemption under Section 80G.
Donations in cheque/ NEFT with your pan card copy. 
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter : @streetproviden1
YouTube channel 
and subscribe and if you agree with our work then please like and share 
AND
As usual strictly no calling , only thru WhatsApp on 8380097564.
God bless you 
Donald Fernandes 
8380097564 / 7020314848
08Mar/21

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Updates
8.3.2021 9am IST 
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY is a day of solidarity for us all to celebrate the achievements of women. 
Its also a day to reflect upon the issues woman face in this world. 
I share about homeless street woman who at times are also suffering from various types of disabilities 
For me this day acts as an opportunity to reflect and admire on the patience, strength and resilience of the caregivers in our women's Shelter Home .
Homelessness is depressing.
Our caregiver Sr Diana, looks after these homeless Street women rescued by Street Providence . 
75% of these women suffer from mental ill health – depression, schizophrenia, anxiety , mood disorders etc.. 
A normal day in the Shelter Home involves ensuring :
☆ they have all 3 meals, 
☆ regular medication, 
☆ daily bath, 
☆ exercise and outdoor walks, 
☆ motivational talk to encourage good 
☆ behaviour……the list is never ending.
A mood disorder in one inmate, can turn a very peaceful morning into a hectic one with Sr Diana , doing all she can to calm her down through talk theraphy and medication.
▪︎ ( Note : the women in the picture are from the streets , abandoned, totally on medication and require constant monitoring on a daily basis. 

Non are fit to work in any private homes as maids . So please no requests.)
On Women's Day today, we at SP, salute the FMCK sisters for caring for our women inmates and thank Sr Fatima and Sr Vandana.
Infact FMCK congregation has given these homeless woman a beautiful home to shelter these once young and able bodied women.
Difficult to explain, but on 1 hand you have FMCK nuns giving you care givers and a beautiful fully loaded home practically free of cost to be used to house homeless street women .
On the other hand , a similar congregation who once believed me and worked and supported me , shut down a home big enough to house more than 300 such homeless people. 
FMCK congregation has been doing a wonderful service in the field of homelessness concerning woman who are on the streets. 
.
Its will close to 3 years, that FMCK nuns provide woman power through their nuns who volunteer as caregivers to look after homeless street woman rescued and picked up by us in their home .
A difficult and complicated service. 
We have had our share of ups & downs, agreements & disagreements, but the very fact its 3 years and counting makes this woman day special. 
If not for supportt from the Local Provincial, Sr Vandana , this service would not have been running 3 years till date .
Many times its difficult for a congregation to work with a lay organisation and that too where the services are full time and in house 24×7.
But with Sr Vandana its always made easy as she too understands homelessness suffered by woman on the streets. 
We tried to spread this service of addressing homelessness faced by street women to other congregations, but met with failure as serving the homeless street woman is not an easy service / apostolate.
Most of the woman in our homes are on medication but what stands out is that in this home the woman today are able to do their own chores under the supervision of Sr Diana and they now can understand and realise that they are much safer in a home rather than on the street .
Our Physiatrist Doctot plays his part by visiting this women home often and advising Sr Diana on medication issues .
♡♡ I thank God for FMCK congregation who also have included homelessness in their apostolate.
To all our :
♡ Women trustees,
♡ Women volunteers – both past and present,
♡ Woman benefactors 
♡ Woman caregivers – past and present,
♡ Nuns who collaborated with us – past & present ,
♡ Nurses – who worked with us in the past. 
♡♡ We @ Street Providence, wish you a Happy Womans day today. ♡♡ 
As a woman please try to address the serious issue of :
homeless woman on the streets, abandoned in hospitals, 
woman who are begging for food ,
etc.
God bless you all
Donald Fernandes 
8380097564 / 7020314848
07Mar/21

ADMITS THIS 78 YEAR OLD MAN NEIL NEWTON INTO OUR HOME

Updates
6.3.2021 8pm IST
STREET PROVIDENCE TRUST GOA admits this 78 year old man Neil Newton into our home today. 
For the last 10 days approx Neil Newton has been on the streets of south Goa desperate to get into a home .
Hungry , lost , frustrated and tired is what I can conclude. 
4.3.2021 , 9 pm , Cpt Venzy Viegas , spots him at Navelim as shown in the attached video and calls me .
Since it's a bit far and a bit late , I assure Cpt Venzy that 5th morning we will surely get him into our home, inspite of writing 2 days back we are completely full and not accepting anyone. 
But Neil is 78 years , tired and frustrated. 
5th morning John Baptist our food bank volunteer from Margao, searches for Neil in Navelim but not to be found.
The SSVP members from NAVELIM church too try to search Neil but no result. 
Today 1.30pm , I get a call from a lady from COMBA, Margao, requesting for help .
Described Neil to me .
I call John & Cpt Venzy and within 30 min , John located Neil .
Thanks to that lady , she runs a parlour in COMBA .
When I was small I was taught , that we need to save the homeless from the darkness. 
Here I and my team are saving the homeless daily .
Margao police did their part and with 3.30pm , Neil is in our home .
Looks like he needs to sleep for the next 3 to 4 days. 
Neil is fatigued, tired, rejected and shaken and slight infection of SCABBIES. 
For many days he was searching for help to get off the streets. 
And Neil is not the only one in south Goa looking for help. 
I am aware that about 25 to 30 such men are desperate for help. 
But this is only going to get worse as summer peaks and monsoon starts. 
How many homeless can still be saved from a cruel summer and a stormy monsoon ahead ?
But where is the home?
Moment I get a call to rehab a homeless, I am not at peace till help is provided to that person on the streets. 
We are daily trying to do our part by picking up continously homeless street people on case to case basis. 
But without a big big home its next to impossible. 
Today, we are one way happy that Street Providence is recognized across Goa for rehabilitating homeless people. 
But on the other way we are heart broken that many requests to house homeless mem are turned down due to this big big home being shut down. 
A home which could have easily accommodated all the homeless in entire South Goa .
And when I refuse to rehabilitate the caller gets offended. 
But no one understands to rehabilitate space and a big home is required which we are desperately trying to get , hire, lease or even buy .
You reading this post can solve my problem by giving us a big home to get more people off the streets and give them new life .
Please DONATE generously towards our NGO .
We offer you 50% , income tax exemption under Section 80G.
Donations in cheque/ NEFT with your pan card copy. 
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter : @streetproviden1
YouTube channel 
and subscribe and if you agree with our work then please like and share 
AND
As usual strictly no calling , only thru WhatsApp on 8380097564.
God bless you 
Donald Fernandes 
8380097564 / 7020314848
05Mar/21

TWO HOMELESS MEN, MR. PAWAL & MR. ARJUN GOT OFF THE STREETS OF MAPUSA LATE LAST NIGHT .

Updates
5.3.2021 5pm IST 
Two homeless men, Mr Pawal & Mr Arjun, fully covered with Scabies, itching and in unclean nature, got off the streets of Mapusa late last night .
STREET PROVIDENCE TRUST, GOA has started a MOBILE CLINIC in the cities of Goa between 6pm to 9pm with a Doctor, a few days back attending to homeless people on the streets .
This is the result. 
Last week Dr , was in Mapusa city at night and there were over 25 homeless men who were examined.
Of which these 2 men were found to be the weakest and required urgent rehabilitation was recommended by the Doctor.
Both are suffering from severe SCABBIES & highly malnourished and weak.
Attached a few pictures and a video👇 .
Since we are really over loaded and short of space it took us some time to organize a room for them.
Scabbies is highly contagious and spreads fast and can be cured only through complete isolation and with separate washrooms , room, etc and monitored medication.
We are always called to solve other people problems and here we are at 9 pm solving these 2 men problems. 
Last night , our volunteer Napolean spotted them in a deteriorated situation and immediately plans were made to pick them up with Sapnesh.
With quick and effective response and support from Goa Police @ Mapusa police station, these 2 men were issued a NOC and being late, the Mapusa Police dropped them to our home past 10pm.
For which we are thankful to the Mapusa police station. 
In the last 3 years of running the rehabilitation homes , we usually got such cases starting of peak summer .
But this year the issue has started mid february and like these 2 men there are another 8 of them with SCABBIES and itching , in the vicinity of Mapusa city .
Even if we give them the cream , there will be no use , as the cream needs to be applied for 12 hours , then bath, then change in clothes which is just not possible for such homeless men on streets.
Solution is rehabilation , but space is the issue. 
Slowly , such men usually end up dead on the streets. 
Once in this line , you can actually expereince & see pain and death when you are in touch with homeless street people especially the wounded and the old. 
Its painful and hurting , but we require more homeless shelters who cares and understands such cases. 
This is what happens when one is on the streets for many many reasons. 
Surviving this itch and pain, leading to blood oozing out of the skin due to scratching, is drinking alcohol which is actually adulterated and chewing tobacco , which gives you a temporary high to forget the pain.
Ultimately one ends up losing both kidney and liver and more complications to the body.
6 months back we had taken off 2 such GOAN men on the verge of death with their entire bodies covered with SCABBIES and itching. 
( Will upload them one of these days with their testimony )
Our caregivers did an awesome job and within 3 months they totally recovered and today both of them are care givers in our homes. 
One studied 12th std, reads and writes fluent English and today administers prescribed medicine to the other sick men in the home. 
This is how our system is built upon .
We take in the most weakest, with the most complicated health issues from the streets and work on them .
Once recovered they automatically understand that they need to look after the next set which comes in.
Now since the Doctor visits the home every week at night , the results are even quicker and faster .
But there are frustrating moments at times as there are many trips to hospitals, doctors for something out of the way , medication and even hospitalization. 
But we @ Street Providence , strive to give a hand to those on their last leg.
Imagine the coming summer heat which is surely going to be intense and followed by rainful monsoon. 
Where are these homeless men going to go ?
New life and life in abundance is what we all at Street Providence strive for towards all the homeless people in our homes. 
You reading this post can solve my problem by giving us a big home to get more people off the streets and give them new life .
Please DONATE generously towards our NGO .
We offer you 50% , income tax exemption under Section 80G.
Donations in cheque/ NEFT with your pan card copy. 
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter : @streetproviden1
YouTube channel 
and subscribe and if you agree with our work then please like and share 
AND
As usual strictly no calling , only thru WhatsApp on 8380097564.
God bless you 
Donald Fernandes 
8380097564 / 7020314848
04Mar/21

PICKED UP THESE 2 HOMELESS MEN JUST OUTSIDE NAVELIM CHURCH

Updates
4.3.2021 4pm IST 
STREET PROVIDENCE TRUST GOA had picked up these 2 homeless men just outside Navelim Church , Goa a few days back .
From late Decemnber 2020 , I was requested many times by many people around Navelim , to help the elderly man , Mr Louine Marquis , aged 70 years .
Why it did not happen was , we were just not having space as we were asked to vacate our biggest home in margao..
But then 2nd week of Feb 2021 , Mrs Roseline , from SSVP , Navelim Church requested me to reconsider if we could help this old man .
Mrs Roseline is our old well wisher and her request was considered as it was a genuine case of an elderly man begging for the last 2 months for help .
The day we reached there to pick the elderly man Mr Louine Marquis, we found another man by the name Stephen also badly in need to rehabilitation. 
Attached a few pictures and a video .👇
Stephen leg was in bad state, he was In pain and his leg would not touch the ground and he must be suffering from :
” Malunion of ankle fracture” 
( malunited bimalleolar fracture left ankle). 
He will need hospitalization and an operation to enable him to walk straight again. 
We have totally stopped picking or rehabilitating any homeless people from Margao & Fatorda jurisdiction, as the biggest home in Margao was shut down when it was given specifically to house the homeless street people. 
God bless that man who instigated the Society to not renew the contract and also the legal mind who was part of the plan to get us out of this home .
As of today, alot , I mean alot of homeless men are around in the streets of Fatorda & Margao jurisdiction asking for help to get off the streets.
In the last 2 months this big home in South Goa is just idle and not used.
Remember this 👇
” The thief comes 
To steal , kill and destroy .
But I have come 
To give life &
Life in abundance “.
See how the evil one got his plan executed by stopping our work and you will be surprised to know how many homeless people are suffering and living on the streets due to no place to go and stay. 
And see how we are still struggling to give a new life to those on the streets inspite of not owning a single home in our name .
Humanity at times is gone to the winds .
It's all about property and money. 
Practically everyday we get requests to pick men from the streets, but its just not going to happen as we dont have space. 
This pandemic has brought alot of men to the streets and it's getting worse as the summer starts.
Wounded, skin diseases, hungry , sick alcoholic , etc are on the streets due to circumstances beyond their control. 
Your and our help is all that requires to get them back on track. 
Once the monsoon sets in it will be next to impossible to rehabilitate any more men .
If any one has a big home In South Goa ,
to give us for a reasonable rent or for free to rehabilitate the homeless men , please let me know. 
Our 2 mens home combined are now holding 60 men when they were suppose to hold only 40 men .
So it's going to be very very difficult to accept more men from the streets in such a situation. 
Please DONATE generously towards our NGO .
We offer you 50% , income tax exemption under Section 80G.
Donations in cheque/ NEFT with your pan card copy. 
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter : @streetproviden1
YouTube channel 
and subscribe and if you agree with our work then please like and share 
AND
As usual strictly no calling , only thru WhatsApp on 8380097564.
God bless you 
Donald Fernandes 
8380097564 / 7020314848
03Mar/21

THANKS ALL THE BENEFACTORS FOR DONATING TO OUR REQUEST FOR MOBILITY AIDS

Updates
3.3.2021 7pm IST 
STREET PROVIDENCE TRUST GOA, through our medicine bank thanks all the benefactors for donating to our request for mobility aids for our homeless street people in our homes. 
On 21.2.2021 we had uploaded a post asking for walking mobility aids for our 100+ homeless street people in all our homes. 
And the response was more than what we could expect. 
Infact I had to request 5 such benefactors not to buy any further new mobility aids as we had already received our requirements. 
Wish to thank the following people who supported us in our request for walking aids :
☆ 1. Fabricat of Orlim church for purchasing close to rs 30000 worth of new mobility aids.
☆ 2. Lizette from utorda who purchased new mobility aids of rs 15000.
☆ 3. Rupak Aggarwal from Caranzalem who purchased new mobility aids worth rs 8000.
To those who gave us in good usable condition mobility aids :
♡ Lorrain from Baga
♡ A well wisher from margao
♡ Cynthia from vasco 
♡ Loran from vasco 
♡ Richard from panjim 
♡ Sr Maria from Fatima convent, Margao.
♡ Pamela from Tivim 
Thank you all for the quick support. 
We received in total:
▪︎Wheel chairs 8 nos
▪︎Commodes on wheels 2 nos
▪︎Clutches 4 pairs 
▪︎Walkers 5 nos
▪︎Walking sticks 4 nos
▪︎Tripods 10 nos.
▪︎Adult diapers 36 nos
I ( and you ) shall be remembered in life for 2 things :
♧ 1.The problems I solve 
♧ 2. The problems I create .
And I am a problem solver .
We @ Street Providence & the food bank through our volunteers and you our benefactors are solving the homeless and hungry people problems here in Goa .
We all need to move out of your comfort zone to solve other people's problems.
God has chosen me to solve the hungry and the homeless people problem in Goa and God has chosen you as a well wisher , as a benefactor, as a volunteer, as a landlord to solve this problem along with me .
My assignment is to solve homeless and hungry street people problems in Goa .
The problems I ( & you ) solve is a legacy to others .
Each one has a fixed assignment in this world, one needs to only ask God to show you the assignment. 
Problems can we marvelous , mysterious and wonderful beginnings.
And everyday I have problems. 
Problems to get resources to run so many projects .
And you the benefactors reply to my problems by donating generously to our NGO.
This is your assignment by God to solve my problem and I in turn feed the hungry on the streets and rehabilitate homeless street people in Goa and I solve the homeless street people problems. 
Problems around me are the golden keys to favour.
Your seeds have to be sown in the lives of those who got problems. 
That is the place of your field .
I am always using my eagle eyes , searching and looking for opportunities to solve the homeless street people problems in Goa .
God always blesses the reachers heart .
Broken people become champions in mending broken people hearts and lives.
The more and more I go around solving problems of the homeless street people, I go on creating rewards .
When you and I solve other people problems, God guarantees our own prosperity .
The biggest problem I now have is to get a big big home as there are at least 50 + desperate men & women waiting to get off the streets of Goa .
You reading this post be it, the bishop, 
a priest , a nun , a politician , a common man , a landlord , a HR manager in a big company, a society owning a closed school, anyone having a big empty home etc , might be called to solve this problem .
Come support us in any way you can .
We offer you 50% Income Tax exemption under section 80G.
Donations only through Cheques / NEFT along with your pan card copy .
We operate only through WhatsApp messages on 8380097564.
No calling please.
God bless you so much 
Donald Fernandes 
8380097564 / 7020314848
01Mar/21

MOBILE CLINIC SERVICES FOR THE HOMELESS STREET PEOPLE, VISITS VASCO CITY

Updates
28.2.2021 5pm IST
STREET PROVIDENCE TRUST GOA, mobile clinic services for the homeless street people, visits Vasco city , Goa on 25th feb.
♡♡ Thanks to Hassan Khan & his team , who has been feeding daily more than 50 such homeless street people in Vasco city on behalf of our food bank , daily afternoon and night , from Nov 2020.
We were able to provide medical assistance and medicines with our Dr to about 8 of such people identified by HASSAN.
Attached 2 small videos 👇
Yes we are determined not only to feed the homeless street people in Goa but also to provide medical assistance like medication and hospital visits as we really cant pick up and rehabilitate any more people , due to shortage of space. 
Medicines were purchased and handed over to Hassan for these 8 people and Hassan will monitor them till the coming week or until the DOCTOR goes back for checking on them next week .
If need be , Hassan will also transport them to the nearest facility for medical treatment in our ambulance. 
Summer is starting and the heat is picking up .
We feel the pain of the homeless street people in Goa and that's the reason we have started this MOBILE CLINIC directly on the streets of Goa .
Looking for more Doctors to be part of this project for taking care of just one city at a time .
If there are any DOCTORS who share our passion for the homeless and hungry and you reside in the following municipalities :
☆ Mapusa 
☆ Panjim 
☆ Vasco
☆ Margao 
☆ Ponda 
☆ Etc 
And can dedicate 1 to 2 hours in a week, please do join in .
We have our volunteers ready across these cities who will support you and identify the homeless who just might be given a fresh lease of life due to your SACRIFICE & SERVICE .
Remember , no one likes to be on the streets and most on the streets are not all bad people. 
Its their circumstances which make them reach the streets .
Once off the streets and polished in our rehabilitation homes , these same homeless people are like diamonds. 
It's only a matter of time , love and concern towards these homeless people. 
Come support us in our mission of eradicating hunger, poverty and sickness in Goa to those on the streets. 
Your support is what drives us forward. 
We offer you 50% income tax exemption on all your donations under Section 80G.
We accept only CHEQUES / NEFT with your pan card copy .
For those who wish to know more about us you can follow us on social media 
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter : @streetproviden1
YouTube channel 
and subscribe and if you agree with our work then please like and share 
AND
As usual strictly no calling , only thru WhatsApp on 8380097564.
God bless you 
Donald Fernandes 
8380097564 / 7020314848
27Feb/21

HAS BEEN FEEDING THE HOMELESS STREET PEOPLE FOR THE LAST 3 YEARS DAILY & CONSISTENTLY.

Updates
27.2.2021 6pm IST 
FOOD BANK FOR THE POOR SANGOLDA GOA has been feeding the homeless street people for the last 3 years daily & consistently.
And it all started in Mapusa city , Goa .
☆☆ With Napolean , our oldest feeder cum volunteer who has stood with us for over 
3 years , daily , feeding the homeless between 7 to 7.30 pm , we cant ask for more. 
Watch the 7 min video , not taken professionally due to various reasons. 👇
♡♡ Napolean and Sapnesh both together work as a good team in Mapusa especially making our rehabilitation work look like very easy .
This has been the only city , where more than 150 such homeless street men who you see in the video , have got off the streets, into out homes and over a period of time gone back to restart their lives after their stay with us .
We @ Street Providence are proud to have the support of Goa Police @ Mapusa police station, headed by PI TUSHAR LOTLIKAR , who as a human being understands humanity and that humanity has been passed down to all the Sub Inspectors @ Mapusa police station & support staff, making this police station responsible for getting off the streets in the last 3 years, 150 such homeless people .
Imagine 1 police station and 1 inspector being involved with rehabilitating of 150 homeless from just 1 city .
Goa has approx 26 such police stations. 
From the food bank programme we moved to rehabilitation of these homeless people which resulted in Street PROVIDENCE, an NGO being formed and registered. 
Today ,
from a small food fridge in may 2017 , 
to multiple fridges, 
to 8 rehabilation homes ,
we now are putting a doctor on the streets attending to homeless street people. 
♡♡ We call it a MOBILE CLINIC ♡♡
Our converted ambulance is on the way and then the MOBILE CLINIC programe will be complete. 
We are blessed to be associated with a Dr who shares our passion for dealing with homeless people. 
Dr , has a full time job from 9 am to 5 pm , and then 6 pm to 9 pm , he accompanies us on the streets across Goa, wherever our food bank feeders are feeding daily. 
On Saturday evening and Sunday morning or even whole day , Dr visits our homes, medically examinng all our people in the homes as well as those taken off the streets the previous week .
In this way Dr is aware of the health condition of each and every person in our shelter homes. 
We are the only NGO in India who has been feeding homeless street people as well as rehabilitating them in our homes, simultaneously. 
And now we added a mobile Clinic. 
Our projects are completely out of the box and we are adding another one service for the homeless street people, never ever done before in Goa .
Your support is what makes us go forward. 
Without donations, from our consistent and faithful benefactors , its next to impossible to daily provide breakfast , lunch & dinner to close to 1000 such homeless people on the streets, as well as getting off the streets in the last 3 years , more than 300+ homeless people, of which at any point of time we will be sheltering 100 people in our homes .
At the moment , we are short of homes , especially a big big home , but today with sorrow, I can say minimum 50 homeless men and 10 women are desperate to get into a home ASAP from just 3 municipalities of Goa .
But we just dont have space. 
With fuel hitting the roof, our costs are rising and rising daily as 80% of the people in our homes are sick , old , incapacitated, wounded, blind , handicapped both mentality and physically.
Yet God in his Wisdom and kindness has supplied each and every need of our NGO inspite of the entire year being pandemic hit .
During the entire period of the lockdown, we fed numerous people and picked up more than 100 people from the streets inspite of serious threats of COVID 19.
We must be the only home among all types of shelter homes, old aged homes, institutions, etc who kept out kitchen open to feed on the streets as well as kept our shelter doors open to accept numerous homeless street people into our homes without giving reasons of the COVID 19.
And with the Favour of God , non of our people contracted Covid 19 till date .
We offer you 50% income tax exemption on all your donations under Section 80G.
We accept only CHEQUES / NEFT with your pan card copy .
For those who wish to know more about us you can follow us on social media 
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God bless you 
Donald Fernandes 
8380097564/7020314848
26Feb/21

HOMELESSNESS IS A TERM WE ALL HEAR AND SEE AND THAT’S WHAT WE DO @ STREET PROVIDENCE

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26.2.2021 4 pm IST 
Homelessness is a term we all hear and see and that's what we do @ Street Providence, trying to eradicate hunger and homelessness in Goa.
The homeless are homeless as there are many reasons, which can be due to alcohol, poverty , joblessness , illiterate, broken relationships, etc.
In Goa we we have been picking people from the street for the last 3 years and Rehabilitating them in our homes free of cost.
Video attached of a man on the street.👇
There is this man who has been just been sleeping outside Panjim bus stop, Goa, for the last four months and who we have been feeding regularly for the last four months through our MOW.
If not picked up he would have not survived in another few days .
We tried many time to pick him up but he always refused, but since we now have a volunteer doctor with us who is a psychiatrist, we took the doctor along to speak to him and get him to get off the streets
The doctor manages to put his point across and the man voluntarily next day got off the street.
Totally weak, malnourished , can be possible that he has a fracture bone in his leg and totally addicted to alcohol and tobacco as that is what keeps such people on the streets alive due to their hunger, pain and loneliness. 
He was so weak that we had to carry him off the stretcher as he must have not walked for over 2 months .
He is now been taken care in our home, all due to the effort of a doctor cum psychiatrist who is doing a wonderful job with us on the streets of Goa between 6 to 9 p.m. daily , voluntarily. 
☆☆ The doctor cum psychiatrist visits our shelter homes every Saturday evening & Sunday morning , monitoring and checking each and every patient and every patient progress.
Its not Easy getting people of the street for us, but when you have a doctor with you who also understand homelessness, then the recovery and treatment of these homeless people are quicker & faster.
It takes a lot of commitment time, energy , resources, manpower , for us & oue volunteers and for the doctor cum psychiatrist to make life easy for people suffering on the streets in Goa.
Thanks to Goa police @ Panjim police station for the support .
You need to have that passion commitment and dedication while reaching out to homeless Street people who most of the times have lost their mental balance.
In spite of of all our Homes being totally full, yet we try our level best to accommodate the weakest of the week on the streets of Goa.
Your support, blessing , prayers and donations is what we ask for.
Getting people of the street always means medication, endless Hospital trips, bandages and dressing and medical tests & reports which eats in our time and resources.
After all Health Care is not that cheap in Goa and most of these people on the streets have no identification.
Please DONATE generously towards our NGO .
We offer you income tax exemption under Section 80G.
Donations in cheque/ NEFT with your pan card copy. 
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter : @streetproviden1
YouTube channel 
and subscribe and if you agree with our work then please like and share 
AND
As usual strictly no calling , only thru WhatsApp on 8380097564.
God bless you 
Donald Fernandes 
8380097564 / 7020314848