Greetings!
Let me take the opportunity of thanking you for sponsoring the evening snacks for the children of our home on children’s day. The children that we have at our home in Mundgod are either fully orphans or have a single parent and those who come from dysfunctional families. We have at present 50 children (boys and girls) and we are providing them with nutritious food, education along with meeting their basic needs. We have children from the age of 11/2 to 16 years.
The reason why we opted to work in the geographical area of Mundgod is simply because we find that the need is much more than we can think or imagine. Mundgod even though comes under Karwar district, is covered by 2 districts i.e. Haveri and Dharwad. The district administration of karwar hardly ever visits this taluk and takes stock of the situation because of the distance factor. Mundgod taluk has 96 villages and 8 wards. With the population and the inflation of food price on the rise, there has been quite a bit of floating population of daily wage farm workers. These people stay away from their families for months together and indulge themselves into all kinds of unhealthy immoral practices Thus inviting upon themselves disease such as AIDS, TB, etc..
We also are catering to the needs of OVC (Orphaned and Vulnerable children) children whose parents have died because of AIDS, there exists a social stigma within the relatives who are taking care of them . These children are not allowed to go to school because the other children’s parents pressurize the school authorities to restrict these OVC children to come to school.
It has been a quite a challenging task for us to take the initiative to work among such needy of the society. After many years Amway Opportunities foundation has recognized us and has sponsored the education and the medical expenses of 48 children, apart from providing us water softener plant and water cooler this year.
We as a family encourage you to visit us and see how you could partner with us in our needs. Presently we are constructing 5 bathrooms and 5 toilets for the girls home and also looking at the possibility of having a buffalo for milk for the malnourished children.
Please feel free to contact me at 9448110056 in case you need any further details.
Thank you once again.
Leslie.