SHELTERS
At the bottom, are the children
most vulnerable and at risk of abuse.
Hundreds of thousands of children roam in the streets in cities across India. These children usually have homes and parents. But in most cases, the parents work as day labourers and so are unable to care for their children. Left to their own resources during the day, they beg for their meals and work for a pittance for unscrupulous business owners.
Outreach through Shelters and Community Centres is the second tier in our approach towards ensuring happy childhoods to every child. We decided to reach out to the children on the streets by providing a safe place to have a hot meal, a shower, and receive counselling. We help enrol these children in a local government school and follow-up with remedial classes after school hours. With the help of our donors, the children receive free books, uniforms and other essentials to make attending school easy on the family. We also conduct counselling and skill-building classes in the centres. The children return to their homes in the evening.
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Working with these children in the Shelters, we realised the need to also transform their communities to create lasting change. That’s why we began Community Centres in the communities we work with.
Through the Centres, we reach out to families living in slums and undeveloped rural areas. Here we conduct health and hygiene awareness camps, pre- and post-natal care, educate men and women on the importance of family planning. We also run slum schools for children unable to attend regular school.
Women and youth can learn skills to help them set up their own micro-entrepreneurship in tailoring, beauty salons and other skills.
We run Shelters and Community Centres in the major cities of Goa. Most of these families are migrants from neighbouring states, who come to Goa in search of employment and better futures. Seeing this, we felt the need to improve conditions in their villages, so families are not compelled to migrate. Our Community Centres in neighbouring states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala help local communities build better lives through primary education for the children and entrepreneurship and skills training especially for women.
Through our Shelters and Community Centres, we integrate the children into society and help families break out of the cycle of poverty. Over the years, El Shaddai has reached out to thousands of children and families through these shelters and community centres.
OUR Shelters
Asha Deep
Asha Deep, our first Day Care Shelter was inaugurated in 2003 in Goa’s capital city Panjim. Asha Deep was made possible through the compassion and generous donation of the Rotary Club of Zeist, Netherlands.
Contact Info: Asha deep,3rd Floor, Akbar Ali Building
Opp, Junta House
Panjim- Bardez Goa 403001
Tel: +91 8329346305
Email: [email protected]
Stepping Stones
Stepping Stones is situated at a strategic location in Margao, the commercial capital of Goa. Set up in 2005, it is close to the main railway station that brings in hundreds of migrants, in search of jobs and better prospects for their children.
Contact Info: House No-360, Behind Masjid,Old Station Road, Malbhat Pajifond, Margoa
(Near Big G Shopping Mall)
Ph: +91 9529374579
E: [email protected]
Little Acorns
Little Acorns, in the coastal village of Calangute, in North Goa caters to the children of migrant construction workers. Tourism is the main source of income in this area and during the peak tourist season people from the neighbouring states migrate to Goa in search of livelihood. The children accompanying them are often sent to work in the market or beg in the streets.
Contact Info: Little Acorns, 1st Floor, Rellino Apartments,Calangute – Anjuna Road, Calangute, Goa, 403516
Ph: +91 8329372531
E: [email protected]
House of Verna
Born in the Spring
House of Verna is a new home started in the month of August 2017 with the help of many helping hands. El Shaddai has been working in South Goa for many years. We came across many underprivileged children and orphans who needed care and protection. After a great struggle, we managed to acquire a home and renovated it. This is our 7th home for roughly 70 -75 children who live in the slums and streets of South Goa. During the pandemic, the number of children who need care and protection reduced. So there was no need to open the house for children, instead El Shaddai started the house for abandoned men. Once we are able to get enough children, the home will be restarted as a home for boys.
Contact Info: House of Verna, H.no:35, Bamborda, Verna, Salcette, Goa, 403722Ph: +91-9623398402
E: [email protected]
House of Hope
Hope for Women at risk
HOUSE OF HOPE is a project of El Shaddai Charitable Trust in collaboration with Goa State Urban Development Agency started in November 2020. It accommodates urban homeless females in their shelter home, a safe place providing protection and support, catering to the primary needs of women in difficult circumstances like domestic violence, abuse, sexual assault and mental stress and empower them to get back to normal life.
Contact Info: House of Hope, Gaunsavaddo, Near Milagris Church, near Divine Mercy School, Mapusa Bardez Goa. Ph: +91 9764907988Address: El Shaddai House Socol Vaddo, Assagao Goa-403507
Phone: +91 7796082607
UK Address: 1st Floor, The Pavilion, 56 Rosslyn Crescent HARROW, Middlesex, HA12SZ
Phone: 075388 97011 | Email: [email protected]
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