Children's Home

This was started with love, and was not according to plan. A job forced onto us.

This is wonderful program that loves for, protects, educates, and gives family to lovely children.

Started with love and compassion.

The mission also runs a home for 15 wonderful but previously underprivileged children. This was a response to an immediate call for help when a few homeless kids came to the Paul Rajs seeking for care and help at a time of high risk for the kids. They had nowhere to go. They were already on the streets for 1 month. They were rescued and given love and care.

The mission takes care of all their physical and emotional needs because when a child first comes in he/she is in severe emotional distress, their minds tormented by worries, fear, and hopelessness. Memories from their recent unhappy past haunt them. All the children who come in have a heartrending story to tell. These children have to be cared for in the right way and by the right people who will love them as their own. These children have found family with the Paul Rajs and are treated just like one in the family. They are provided a solid support network of brothers and sisters, they get all the attention and love that children need, they get quality education according to government-set standards, and the mission sponsors their food, shelter, clothing, books, uniforms, tuition, and health thanks to all the wonderful, generous friends who help out. City mission also has long-term plans for the children’s well-being.

The Problems Children face.

Children become homeless, and they face a lot of problems like inadequate food and housing, poor sanitation and congestion, and serious illnesses from preventable diseases. Kids get abandoned either because of temporary, partial, or total break-up with their families or with society. They usually come from poor rural areas, poor urban families suffer family breakdowns, minority ethnic groups, and nomad communities. These kids are rejected by formal mainstream schools as the environment in which they live in and come from is often hostile, repressive and violent, without any safety network and support structures.

Homeless kids are often forced into prostitution, gangs, or crime in order to survive. Homeless children often do not attend primary or secondary school and are therefore, further cut off from any support given to children through school environment.

Bangalore City Mission very often encounters people who want to put some kids into the children’s home program. Such children are at great risk and are very very fragile and must be attended to immediately. No one knows if they can pass the cold night alone, no one knows if they can stand the coming winter.

Remember, the next time we come around…. they just might not be there. We don’t know what happened to the little ones the home has not been able to accommodate due to lack of resources.