MAKING A BETTER WORLD

Born and bred in England, I have spent more than fifty years in India.

In India, there are many rich people. Equally there are many poor, deprived and underprivileged.

I have felt moved to spend my life among these - the poor in villages.

To be one of them, I learned their language and live their simple life .


SOME PROBLEMS FACED BY THE POOR.

1. HOUSING : Many poor in villages lack suitable housing. Their houses are often very old and dilapidated. They live in make-shift huts. Building the simplest house costs about £6000, ($7900, ₹5,00,000). To build their own house is out of the question for the poor.

When I have funds I help as many as I can.

If you would like to help someone, contact me (Fr. Tim) at ftgreenway@gmail.com 

2. EDUCATION : young people in villages from low income groups want to study and get on in life. Their first problem is that there are no colleges or institutions of higher learning in villages. They are only in urban areas. The best are in major cities.

Their second problem is college fees are prohibitive. Since colleges are far away, they must live in hostels where fees are very high.

The Government does give a partial scholarship to poor students. However, they must pay the balance themselves plus their own personal expenses. As a result, many are forced to drop out.

I reach out to as many as I can. I want to help 93 this year.

You too can share in this. You can help someone reach their dream. Just contact me at

 ftgreenway@gmail.com

3. A PROBLEM FOR GIRLS : married girls go to live with their in-laws, while boys stay in their own home with their wives. With little money, many parents hesitate to spend money on their daughters higher education. So, girls lose out.

I step in to make their dreams come true. Girls respond very well to what little help I can give. Many are now in a profession such as teaching or nursing. Lack of funds means that some are , unfortunately, left outside.

Thank you for reading so far. if you feel moved to work for a better world, even in a small way, do contact me, ftgreenway@gmail.com

4. SINGLE MOTHERS AND ORPHAN CHILDREN. There is a sizeable number of these in villages, due to untimely deaths and other causes. Single mothers and orphans are the most deprived of all.

I will not refuse them. This year I am helping 43 - by paying fees and other educational expenses such as books, bags, uniforms etc.

I go ahead, believing people of good-will will always come forward to support my work. 

SPRINGS OF LIVING WATER (Jeeva Jala Nilayam)

This is our ashram. We live by the principle: by giving we receive, by loving we are loved, by sharing we are rich and that true religion is "to help orphans and widows in their distress and not to allow the world to corrupt us".

With some of the residents of Springs of Living Water.
Each one has a story to tell.

TO LOVE HUMAN BEINGS IS TO LOVE GOD.


You too can be part of our work. Contact me today: Fr. Tim, ftgreenway@gmail.com.

OUR FAMILY:

Pandu

 Pandu came here about six months ago (Jan 2017). He was totally paralysed and helpless.  However with love and care he is well on the way to recovery.

Yadamma

Yadamma came to The Springs five years ago.

We are her family. She has no husband or children.

Saidamma

Saidamma has been with us since the beginning. Who knows how old she is. Maybe eighty five or more!

Buchamma

Buchamma has been with us for four years now.

Anji

Anji was orphaned when he was very small and he was born with HIV.

He has been with us since he was four or five years of age.

His sister who was also brought up by us is now happily married with two children. Anji and her keep in close contact.

Vinod

Vinod was brought here two to three years back completely paralysed due to some rare sickness.

With treatment he is now almost cured. He is now able to work and 

drives our autorickshaw.

Shantamma

Shantamma came here with her daughter and then ten-month old son in 2011. She was very badly burnt and almost died.

However she recovered, even though she is badly disfigured.

Sujaatha

Sujaatha is also an orphan from Nellore which is one night's travel from here. How she ended up here is quite amazing. Her parents died some years ago and she lived with her grandmother. Her grandmother also died and she was left with no one and nothing. One day she boarded a train and then another and eventually alighted in Vikarabad. She went to a church here and the people of that church brought her to me. "I was homeless and you gave me a home" - she is now a member of our 'family' here.

Thank you for reading so far,

you can be part of our work.

Contact me today: Fr. Tim, at ftgreenway@gmail.com

Jyothi

When Jyothi was about four she was abandoned on the railway station here. The police brought her here and we welcomed her. She is now about fifteen and preparing for the school leaving examination. She stays in our boarding home with the sisters.

Sireesha

Sireesha lost both her parents on one day. She was at the time in our boarding home. Since then she is with us. She too is studying along with Jyothi in St. Gonzalo Garcia English Medium High School in Pargi and stays with the the sisters there.

Rohini

 Rohini is another orphan, brought here by the people of one of our villages. She came a couple of weeks ago (July 2017). She would like to become a nurse and is doing preparatory training for this.

Mamatha

Mamatha is an orphan who came here of her own accord. She too is now doing preparatory vocational training to become a nurse. 

Nirmala

Nirmala looks after all the internal affairs of the ashram – cooking, residents’ needs etc. She comes from a farming family and is keen on growing vegetables and food crops for the residents.

She is a widow having recently lost her husband. She and her husband were here from the beginning.  

She came here to serve out of gratitude. Some eleven years ago she had a very serious accident when knocked down by a bus. She was in a private hospital for more than three months since there was no other place to get the treatment needed. Invalided for more than twelve months, she lost the use of one arm. But we saved her life.

Without support we can do nothing.

Your support will enable us to do more.

You may contact me today:

Fr. Tim

ftgreenway@gmail.com

IN 'SPRINGS OF LIVING WATER', 

WE LIGHT A CANDLE, WE DO NOT CURSE THE DARKNESS.

MAKING THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE

All these YOUNG PEOPLE are from the poorest backgrounds. They have intelligence and they work hard. However, they lack money. I reach out to 93 students. I help them with what they can’t do for themselves.

In the last TEN YEARS more than three hundred have graduated in their chosen field and are now earning a living.

If you would like to help me do more, contact me today, Fr. Tim, 

ftgreenway@gmail.com

I WANT TO DO MORE: 



Is it right to have to live like this?

I would like now to help 5 families build their house and home.  Total £ 25,000 ($20,000, ₹21,00,000)

If you would like to help contact me today: Fr.Tim,
ftgreenway@gmail.com

I want to continue helping our 43 orphans and very poor children: Total £3,600.00 ($3000, ₹3,02,000)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

and continue helping deprived young people realise their dreams.  Total £ 13,000 ($16,000, ₹10,90,000).

Why not contact me at ftgreenway@gmail.com ?

Let's help one another

This year I plan to help 20 tribal children be educated at a cost of £6500 ($8500)

Jesus, Our inspiration

To care for those living in Jeeva Jala Nilayam (Springs of Living Water),  £ 2700, ($3500, ₹2,28,000).

WHAT I NEED NOW TO REACH OUT TO ALL THE ABOVE: £50,800 ($67,000, ₹42,67,200)

1.    If you like this blog, please give a comment below. To share in my work to those in need, please send an email to me at ftgreenway@gmail.com

Every little helps!

You may send your donation directly to the bank  -  F.T. Greenway, a/c no 80431761, Barclays 20-82-14

(Barclays Address: 1 Bridge Street, Stockport, Cheshire, SK1 1XU, United Kingdom)

In India: A/c  Jeeva Jala Nilayam of the St Josephs Society,

a/c number: 173511100002449

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or (for GIFT AID DONATIONS in the U.K.) to the Mill Hill Missionaries, mentioning for Fr. Greenway’s mission in India.

Mill Hill Missionaries address: Accountant Finance Office  P.O.  Box 3608 St Joseph’s Parish Centre 36 Cookham Road Maidenhead SL6 7UX United Kingdom

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Reaching out in love to children without hope.

And giving them hope.

I came to India when I was twenty five. That was more than fifty years ago! 

I felt a call to work among the rural poor. I have been doing this all these years. 

In my blog I speak for the voiceless. I reveal those invisible. 

Maybe you too would like to lift someone out of despair and give them the hope of LIFE. 

Mother Teresa was great. Why? 

She understood that worship of God is to reach out in love to human beings. 

Human beings are precious to God, their Creator. Love for them is closest to his heart.

Whoever you are, you are dear to God. You are dear too, then, to everyone who truly believes in God.  

You only pass this way once. Do good to someone while you can. This is my philosophy.

Our ashram is Jeeva Jala Nilayam. In English :"Springs of Living Water". We want it to be a light in the darkness. 

Our dream : those who come to us or whom we bring should experience that there is a God who cares.

CHILDREN WITHOUT HOPE.

We care for FIFTY SEVEN children in great need. 

There are many more but our funds do not allow us to help them.

Of FIFTY SEVEN, three are orphans, thirty three have only their mother, nine have a father but he is for one reason or another incapacitated and eight are very poor. 

Thirty one study in our school in Pargi, twenty in Vikarabad and seven in Hyderabad.

PARGI.

Pargi is twenty two kilometres from Springs of Living Water.

With some of the children who study in St. Gonzalo Garcia's English Medium High School in Pargi.

An English education is essential in the modern world. 

With help from the Jane Hodge Foundation, Cardiff U.K., the Italian Catholic Bishops' Conference and Indian organisations we have built the school.

St. Gonzalo Garcia's School.

A view of the school as children from different schools enter it to write their school leaving examinations in March 2017.

In Pargi I enducate and care for these and others. However without the support of my friends I could not help any of them. 

WHERE DO OUR CHILDREN COME FROM?

Akash lives in Springs of Living Water with his mother, Shantamma. He goes to the local nursery school and his sister Deepika is in the Engish Medium hostel and school in Pargi.

Akash's mother is Shantamma. She and her two children have lived with us since we came here in 2011. We helped save her life after she suffered more than thirty per cent burns as a result of domestic violence.

Prabhavati lost her husband  in February of 2016. He left their two room house to see some visitors back to their home. It was night about nine o'clock. He was hit by a speeding autorickshaw and died the following day in hospital in Hyderabad. She is now a widow with two small children. This is her elder child. 

Fortunately they bought this small tenement built by the Government for about £500, some years ago. She has a roof over her head, and we educate her children

                                                   

 Venkatamma’s husband left her when Ankitha was born. Since then as a single parent she has struggled to bring her up. With our help, she educates her in our English Medium School in Pargi. She is now in the eighth class.

Sujaatha is here seen with her two sons, Praneeth and Satvik. Unfortunately her husband fell into the way of alcohol and has become an alcoholic. Since the family was reduced to destitution because of this, for the sake of Sujaatha and her children we managed with the help of benefactors to put up a two room house, shown here and  are educating her children.

Jyothi is an orphan . Abandonned when she was only four or five years of age, she has been with us since then. She is now in the eighth class in the English Medium School. she has a talent for drawing as we can see here.

Other Members of Springs of Living Water (JJN)

Pandu as he was when he came last month.

Last week. He has improved, but still cannot use his hands properly. His sister who cares for him here gives him his meals

Pandu is now walking somewhat. We took him twice to a big Government hospital in Hyderabad. They did an MRI scan and the specialist prescribed the medicine and treatment. He lives with us and we care for him. Daily we lay hands on him and pray for his full recovery. 

Here we can see him going into the chapel. He is not a Christian. We try to make no distinction but treat every person of whatever faith, colour, caste, language etc with equal love and affection.

Last week, Kausalya came and asked if she could stay here since she said she was almost on the streets. I have known her in Hyderabad for more than forty years. Now she too is living with us.

Human need and suffering is so great.

• We welcome all who come to us and we reach out to those we can. 
• There are victims of child marriages, abandoned and thrown on the streets. 
• There are children and youths, particularly girls, who are underprivileged and without hope to realise their dreams. We have more than a hundred.
•  There are so many women deserted by their husbands and left with children to bring up and educate. They need some kind of sheltered accommodation.
• There the homeless: they have no house, however simple, that they can call their own. There are twenty families who have asked me to help them build their house. Each house cost £6000 or Rs.500,000.
• Rural people who are seriously sick and need extensive treatment in a city hospital and need a place to recuperate.

We do what we can with what we have, but we can in no way do what we would like to do.

If you would like to share in his work, you can easily do so. You can get in touch through email: ftgreenway@gmail.com

You can send a donation to:

For India:

JEEVA JALA NILAYAM OF THE ST JOSEPHS SOCIETY

Account number: 173511100002449

IFSC CODE ANDB0001735.

For other countries.

FT Greenway, account number 80431761, Barclays UK, 20-82-14.

You can donate right now. Why not?

Look out for my next post:  The homeless. 

What we have done and what we are unable to do.

Welcoming Brothers and Sisters in Need

Fr. Tim Greenway’s Mission

50 years in India

Welcome,

I believe in Jesus as the Light of the world, as the Way, the truth and the life.

Jesus told us to be compassionate as our heavenly Father is compassionate and he gave us the new commandment to love one another as he has loved us.

Furthermore, he said, whatever you do even to the least of men and women you do to me.

In a small way, I try to bring love into the lives of those unloved, abandoned, old and destitute. I try to reach out to everyone who is looking for the peace, that only the Lord Jesus gives.

In this blog, I share my mission. Whoever you are, you can share in it too.

The mission of Jesus :I have come that men and women may have life and live it to the full. 
Let it be our mission too.

Fr. Tim.

Jeeva Jala Nilayam              Springs of Living Water 

I live in a simple ashram in Vikarabad in Telengana State, South India.

One of the goals of my life is to reach out to underprivileged youths and help them grow, to help them get a good and useful education and to instil in them the values of justice, love and peace. More about this later.

Here I am with a group of youngsters outside the gate of our ashram home

We call it Jeeva Jala Nilayam, which in English means: Springs of Living Water.

Once inside it looks like this.            

I built this many years ago as a hostel for poor village children. They received free board and lodging and went out to school. However, times have changed: People need an English education in the modern world. I moved the hostel to Pargi, 20 km away, to our English medium school.

And  inside  Springs of Living Water also  looks like this .

In Springs of Living Water (Jeeva Jala Nilayam) we welcome everyone who needs us. 

We have with us : the old, the crippled, the abandoned, women and children, people with HIV, and sick people.

They belong to all religions and castes. 

 Emmanuel is old and crippled. He comes from Mahaharasta. 

we are now his family.

Sister is here seen treating him

Old people from villages who have no one and like to stay with us. 

Ananthamma lost her husband many years ago and has no children. 

She came and stayed with us.

Saidamma has been with us from the beginning.

she is well into her eighties.

Narasimha is a frequent guest in Springs of Living Water.

 He has weakness in his legs which cannot be cured. 

However, he faces the challenge. 

We are here for him.

Here, we can see some of our residents.

 At Christmas time local people like to come and give presents to our residents. Here, we  can see a couple giving a blanket to Buchamma. It is cold here at night in December  and they gave new blankets to everyone here.

This is Narsimlu. Brought to us in a very anaemic state, he managed to recover and at Christmas with the crib in the background this lady gave him too a blanket. He is no longer with us and has gone back home.   

At other times too, others give presents. Here, we see Sireesha. She used to be with us but now has a job with a reasonably good salary. As a sign of her gratitude and joy she came and gave presents and a good meal to everyone in Springs of Living Water (Jeeva Jala Nilayam)

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This little girl was born in Springs of Living Water – not exactly, but in the local hospital. Her mother is a single parent and unmarried. The people of the village sent her away. She went away, with nowhere to go.

Fortunately, that evening our team visited the village and heard what had happened. They went in search of the young woman. At about ten thirty at night they found her in an ally way. They brought her to Springs of Living Water (JJN) and she stayed with us for about a year.

Meanwhile she had her child and in the course of time she was taken back home and is now living there peacefully.

The child is four years old and due to go to school next year.

We will try and give her the best education she can get here.

Anji was born with HIV and his parents died when he was very small. He has been with us since he was a very small boy.

He has a sister who is married with two children. He goes to see her and she comes here on occasion. She too grew up with us.

Our latest guest is Pandu. Someone who came to church one Sunday told us about him. He had lost the use of his arms and legs, he said. One of the ladies who came to church and heard this volunteered to go and find him. We then brought him here. We showed him to our doctor and had the CT scan done. It seems he can recover with medicines. We pray over him and  are doing our best to get him walking again.

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These are some of the ways we try to be at the loving service of our brothers and sisters, whoever they are and whatever their condition We will never say "no" to any genuine person who knocks at our door.

Jesus, our inspiration and guide. 

JEEVA JALA NILAYAM, (SPRINGS OF LIVING WATER), IS A PLACE OF PRAYER AND PEACE. HERE WE TRY TO LIVE OUT THE GOSPEL OF JESUS.

IT IS OUR WITNESS TO THE GOD WHO LOVES AND CARES, through us.

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This blog post is for March 2017. "Welcoming brothers and sisters in need",

The blog post for next month, April 2017, "Reaching out to young children in need".

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If you would like to know more or would like to share in our work, please contact me at  ftgreenway@gmail.com  

Our work is only through the support of our well-wishers. We have no other income.

YOUR DONATION IS HIGHLY APPRECIATED.

DONATIONS:
INDIA: M/S Jeeva Jala Nilayam of The St. Joseph's Society, 
A/c number 173511100002449, IFSC CODE ANDB0001735

OTHER COUNTRIES: FT GREENWAY, BARCLAYS U.K. 
SORT CODE 20-82-14,
a/c 80431761,

Look out for next month's post,

Yours in the God who loves each of us,

Fr. Tim Greenway.