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

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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.