Thousands of children
live on the streets of India, in dirty,
lice-ridden, dressed
in rags, foraging for food during the day and sleeping under a plastic
sheet at night.
They tend to come from
poor and uneducated families who migrate to tourist Goa in search
of jobs and money.
Children throughout
the country are forced out onto the streets to beg, or are abandoned.
They are then targets for organised crime rackets who sever their
limbs and send them out to beg.
They become targets
for organised crime in many ways too numerous to mention and are extreamly
vulnerable to physical and sexual abuse, Goa, is a state which is
fast becoming a holiday destination for Paedophiles.
What can be done to
help these children?
Mustard
Seed Ministries, is planning to establish a home for 40
children, where they
can be fed, educated and above all, loved.
Rick Reilly-Davidson,
who runs the Christian charity, said:
"If we don't do something
now we may loose the one we lost today.
The main thing is to
get these kids off the street and give them an education and a safe,
loving home.
There are many who are
lost and abandoned and it will be heartbreaking to only make room
for 40. But its a start and, if all goes well, we plan to
open another home for
around 50 children, later next year."
please contact
Mustard
Seed Ministries
11
Brompton Road
Southsea
Hampshire
PO4
9AJ
England.
For more information
please click here to email .......
streetkids@msm.org.uk
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The paradise of Goa,
Rev has an ear, let him hear what
the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give
the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of
God.
Luke
23:43
Jesus answered him, "I tell you the truth,
today you will be with me in paradise."
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