India's enforced the world's biggest lockdown. It's taking a heavy toll in August (Covid-19)
August 22 Visiting a slum area, teaching the children and suppling a meal for the children
10 August 2020 Mumbai Slums:
Pastor Sujil and his team, distributing food and clothes after the heavy rain and flooding over the last week
From June 2020 Pastor Sujil and his team have supplied books and games for slum children all schools are closed
They are regularly visiting the slum area and teaching the children as well as suppling a meal for the children
11 June 2020 Heavy Cyclone rain in Mumbai, pastor Sujil taking food to the starving in Mumbai slums
20 May 2020
There is a humanitarian crisis in India.There is panic and devastation,social, economic and emotional.
India is in the grip of a humanitarian crisis.
The coronavirus disease (Covid-19)-sparked national lockdown Now in place till September
After the states suspended public transport to stop people moving around, millions of workers( Untouchable, also called Dalits cast )
were forced to return to their villages on foot. Now with no work and no food for their families
According to the World Health Organization, more than 280 million Indians live below the poverty line.
The WHO lists the most urgent problem as "undernourishment".
Despite the Government's 600 million emergency food parcels and a rescue package worth $400 billion,
or 10 per cent of India's GDP, NGOs still working overtime to feed the desperate people are starving.
There is a humanitarian crisis in India.There is panic and devastation,social, economic and emotional.
India is in the grip of a humanitarian crisis.
The coronavirus disease (Covid-19)-sparked national lockdown Now in place till September
After the states suspended public transport to stop people moving around, millions of workers( Untouchable, also called Dalits cast )
were forced to return to their villages on foot. Now with no work and no food for their families
According to the World Health Organization, more than 280 million Indians live below the poverty line.
The WHO lists the most urgent problem as "undernourishment".
Despite the Government's 600 million emergency food parcels and a rescue package worth $400 billion,
or 10 per cent of India's GDP, NGOs still working overtime to feed the desperate people are starving.
14th May 2020 Pastor Sujil distributed clothes and food to poor children in Mumbai slums
Photos: 11th May 2020 food bags for another Mumbi slum near a garbage tip
2nd May 2020 Pastor Sujil distributed food to families in Mumbai slums
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13th April 2020 feeding the slum children and story time with Pastor Sujil
Christmas Celebrations at pastors Church December 2019
Our visit with Pastor Sujil Mumbai Slums December 2019
Mumbai slums, India
Our visit with Pastor Sujil 5 December 2019
We visited 3 slums on our Visit meeting with Pastor Sujil
who helps by feedig children.We are now supporting this work
The word “slum” is a derogatory term that theIndian population does not like to use.
The people here are working citizens and contributors to society. The lanes were narrow, just wide enough for two people to pass.
The alleyways were dark because over our heads were the overhangs of buildings and tangled power lines.
Every fifteen feet there would be a doorway leading into a house,
a singular 4×4 meter room which was the kitchen, living room, and bedroom for an entire family.
People would be laying on the floor watching TV.
Most of these houses also had electricity and some had water, but no indoor toilet.
As Victor and I (Annie) walked through the alleyways, barefoot children would say “hello”
The children were happy to see us, as pastor had organised a game story and a meal for the children.
Pastor has 5 slum areas he goes to twice a month to help feed the children. Pastor is a welcome visitor by all the community.
It was hot in here as there was very little airflow.
Victor and I stepped back out into daylight and into a field of garbage at one of the slums we visited, an area about 100 feet by 150 feet was filled with mounds of trash and dirt were young children were running around barefoot or in or thongs, kicking a plastic soccer ball. This trash heap was their playground. What a sight that was, the children were smiling and happy and having a great time.
It was heart renching but we are now able to join with Pastor and help him continue his work.
Another of the biggest threat for the residents,
is being forced from the land that is now prime real estate with plenty of developers eyes on Mumbai Slumbs
Our visit with Pastor Sujil 5 December 2019
We visited 3 slums on our Visit meeting with Pastor Sujil
who helps by feedig children.We are now supporting this work
The word “slum” is a derogatory term that theIndian population does not like to use.
The people here are working citizens and contributors to society. The lanes were narrow, just wide enough for two people to pass.
The alleyways were dark because over our heads were the overhangs of buildings and tangled power lines.
Every fifteen feet there would be a doorway leading into a house,
a singular 4×4 meter room which was the kitchen, living room, and bedroom for an entire family.
People would be laying on the floor watching TV.
Most of these houses also had electricity and some had water, but no indoor toilet.
As Victor and I (Annie) walked through the alleyways, barefoot children would say “hello”
The children were happy to see us, as pastor had organised a game story and a meal for the children.
Pastor has 5 slum areas he goes to twice a month to help feed the children. Pastor is a welcome visitor by all the community.
It was hot in here as there was very little airflow.
Victor and I stepped back out into daylight and into a field of garbage at one of the slums we visited, an area about 100 feet by 150 feet was filled with mounds of trash and dirt were young children were running around barefoot or in or thongs, kicking a plastic soccer ball. This trash heap was their playground. What a sight that was, the children were smiling and happy and having a great time.
It was heart renching but we are now able to join with Pastor and help him continue his work.
Another of the biggest threat for the residents,
is being forced from the land that is now prime real estate with plenty of developers eyes on Mumbai Slumbs
Children without parental care have been abandoned by a living parent or parents.
Last year, the Times of India reported that nine-in-ten of abandoned children in India were girls.
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Newborn found abandoned in a plastic bag in Mumbai Central railway station June 15th 2019
After the Railway Protection Force checked the plastic bag, they found a newborn baby. “Baby is now safe. Mumbai Central GRP took the baby to Sion hospital,” said a WR official. The baby was found under a seat in a coach behind the motorman’s cabin at Mumbai Central.According to the Western Railway, the control room got a call from an emergency number in which an unidentified object complaint was made by a commuter. After the Railway Protection Force checked the plastic bag, they found a newborn baby. “Baby is now safe. Mumbai Central GRP took the baby to Sion hospital,” said a WR official. |