Our Young Girls at Risk
Prathyasha Bhavan (Home of Hope) provides a loving, stable home to abandoned, homeless, and neglected girls, from age 5 to 23. It is located in the south of India, in the city of Kochi (Cochin), state of Kerala. (link to map of India). Currently, we have 60 girls in residence, and refuse no girl in need or crisis.
Our beautiful girls are often brought to us with ragged clothes and sadness in their eyes. They may have been forced into begging on the streets by the beggar mafia that exploits young children. Some have been purposely maimed to make them "better" beggars. Or they might be the children of commercial sex workers, runaways, children from broken families that cannot adequately care for them. Often, they have been exposed to physical and moral exploitation.
They are only children but they have seen too much deprivation for their young lives. Many have lived on the streets.
In our care, they are quickly incorporated into a loving community and their physical, educational, medical and moral needs are addressed. It is remarkable to see how happy they become in just a short period of time under these favourable circumstances.
         
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