Alone we are a Drop - Together we are an Ocean
Programmes
Service embedded with Love and Care
Education
Daddy Home
Family Healthcare
Nature Cure
HIV/AIDS programmes
Education of the poor and needy children and illiterate women is the Principal purpose of the Trust. Feeding, education and caring for the poor and destitude children in India is the top priority of the Trust which seeks to facilitate caring and sharing for the integral growth of those poor people. We give utmost importance to help children to support for their educational pursuits, literally to any level. We encourage them to excel in studies and other co- curricular activities. We send our children to Government and Private schools and colleges based on their prior education background in order to solve the problem at its roots and not only fight the outcome. Moreover so that the poor,needy and down trodden have someone who cares for them and so that the farmer children have the opportunity to gain a proper education and thus escape poverty. By attending school the in south India wide spread child labor is avoided. Only with a good education the children have the opportunity to escape poverty and bring progress and varieties into their villages. At the same time they bring security and education, since they know how to read and write they can teach others to do so and thus the villagers have more job varieties. Besides the farm work and the gardening they can now become teachers, butchers, bakers etc. By this the situation of the whole village improves and they make a big step away from poverty and towards wealth, progress and security. I think that this is the only way to really help the poor and needy villagers and give them the long term opportunity to help themselves without depending on others.
We also provide them extensive coaching and guest lectures by many social workers, care takers and well-wishers on various aspects of science and technology.
We provide them with school textbooks, notebooks and learning material and kits for better understanding of concepts for stronger intelligence building.
We also encourage them to pursue creative skills, sports and games for better all-round development.
Apart from supporting children who are under our care in Daddy’s Home, we also sponsor educational expenses of children from poorer families in the surrounding areas of Kadapa. We provide them free books and school uniforms.
College of Education
For this reason the Raja Foundation has started a college of education in which per year more than 300 people get a degree and thus are ready for a self-reliant life. Most of the students come from very poor families so the education is offered them for free. Many of these students are also women.
Vocational Training Center
Moreover the Raja Foundation includes a vocational training center for former child workers where they are being educated and especially supported so that they can catch up with the knowledge of the others and be sent to school. Furthermore the HIV/AIDS-Infected are offered first class education for free as well as the street children.
Pooja International Techno School
The Pater Raja Foundation built the Pooja International Techno School near Proddatur in the Kadapa district. The since 2008 existing English speaking Pooja international Techno School is a school in which poor and wealthy children study side by side learn to overcome caste barriers and work together in order to form India’s future and make India a better place. The school is trying to create a bridge between poor and rich children. It is trying to overcome prejudices and bridge the gaps between rich and poor people. The pupils of wealthy families pay money for their education and thus make it possible for the poor and needy children who cannot afford the school money to go to school without paying for their education. Moreover the wealthy people contribute with their money to the support of Daddy Home. In the school the pupils learn that the dominant way of thinking in India the cast system is not good and that there is only one right way of thinking and one religion: humanity! It does not matter which religion you believe in, what your color of skin, sex, origin or social layer is because all humans are equal and thus should be treated equally.The Pooja School tries to positively change the system in India permanently and deeply so that each child has the opportunity to be educated and is treated equally. Whether boy or girl, high- or low caste every child should have the opportunity to attend school and get a good training.
Untouchability is the main cause for all the problems. Most of those people are coming from very low caste and from an untouchable community as per the Indian Hindu religion. The caste system promotes this untouchable mentality. As a result, children have very bad and sad memories of their childhood. Many children find it very hard to smile and laugh. The helpless people and little children are brought to daddy home from the streets because they have lost their families due to poverty,sickness and death. Most of them have physical and mental problems. Their health condition is very poor and they suffer of a very low blood count and anemia. Thus they need a home where they are loved and cared for. Daddy home is this home for these people. AIDS infected people and children are also untouchables. They are treated very badly. No doctor wants to touch nor treat them. Stigma and discrimination cause a lot of pain for those patients with AIDS. Many of them just die without any medicine,love,care and food.
Daddy Home provides the following benefits:
- Food,shelter,clothing and medicines
- psychological councelling,physical and emotional therapy
- education
- recreation facilities for happiness
- catholic prayers,catechism,christian songs,adoration,bible services,holy mass,celebration of christian festivals are organised for the spiritual growth of the inhabitants of Daddy Home
Beneficiaries in Daddy Home:
We have 250 beneficiaries which include 24 new born babies,60 AIIDS infected little children,40 pregnant mothers,25 old people, 126 orphan boys and girls in our care in and outside Daddy Home.
Values and Responsibilities
At Daddy Home, children and elders get food, shelter, medicine, education, clothes and above all happy life through love and care. We inculcate value based education and awareness among children.
We also enable them to grow as successful citizens and understand the social responsibilities. All the elder members play the roles of Amma (mother), Nanna father), Akka (sister), Anna (brother), Ammamma (granny) and Thatayya (grandpa) for those orphan-homeless little children.Thus a family relation takes place.
Local contribution and partnership in Daddy Home:
- The government of Andhra Pradesh has given 40 acres of land to built Daddy Home with very low price after seeing our good christian work.
- The ministry of family and health in New Delhi came forward to supply medicines like the ''nevarapin pill'' for AIDS infected pregnant mothers.
- The governement of Andhra Pradesh is supplying ART ( Anti Retroviral Therapy) medicines for AIDS infected children in Daddy Home.
- The Bishop of Kadapa Very.Rev.Prasad and the Bishop of Nellore Very.Rev.Prakasam have visited Daddy Home on 27th Mai 2011 and have baptised and christianized a child of a women who has been raped.
- Those two bishops laid a foundation stone and blessed the area to built an AIDS Rehabilitation Home for AIDS pregnant mothers,young mothers living with AIDS and children.
- The Hindus and Muslims come to Daddy Home to give food,clothes,cakes and other needed things for the inhabitants whenever they celebrate their own birthdays,wedding days and death ceremonies of their family members.
- We built and run Daddy Home mainly on donations of private people from India and Europe through Patenschaften for the people in Daddy Home. Almost no organisations are supporting the mission. Thus we have no constant income and no money to start new needed projects.
Care Homes included in Daddy Home
At present Pater Raja Foundation includes the following care homes:
- Aged home for Helpless & Homeless street children
- Home for orphan boys.
- Home for orphan girls.
- Home for helpless old people
- Home for AIDS pregnant mothers
- Home for AIDS infected little children
- CSC for HIV/AIDS Infected Children.
(Care and Support Centre)
- Home for street children.
- Home for child labourers/workers
- Vocational training centre for child labor.
- Residential care home for mentally retarded people
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- Home for rape-victims and abused young girls.
All those residential homes are built in a square model within one building. Daddy Home is an integrated Home for all these people living together like a single God's family,eating together,playing together, being happy together,sharing the problems of live together in good christian faith as one community of God.
We conduct regular medical and healthcare checkup camps for children and elders of Daddy Home. We promote physical wellbeing among our beneficiaries. We also organize various awareness programmes and campaigns on Cancer Detection, HIV/AIDS, Health and Hygiene.
We also organize free medical camps in various rural areas of Kadapa for the benefit of poor and needy people. We also administer Polio Drops Drive in our surrounding areas.
We arrange blood donation camps and programmes to encourage people to donate blood for various blood donation banks.
Environmental Awareness
We encourage our children to inculcate awareness on environment and social ecosystem.
We organize various educational awareness programmes on environmental issues like pollution, ecosystem balance in society by
- Developing educational/teaching materials and aids for making children easily understand environmental issues
- Seeking the support of government, media and other organizations to support our endeavors
- Mobilizing people’s awareness for the preservation and conservation of environment.
We advocate the importance of Nature Cure as a system of medicine aimed to diagnose and treat any human ailment, pain and injury through the use of natural elements, mainly 5 in number - Space, Air, Fire, Water and Earth.
We encourage our beneficiaries to aware of effective usage of nature cure. We have natural cultivation fields with organic farming to plant and grow various nutritious leafy vegetables, fruits for our own consumption.
We encourage our children and elders to learn gardening and taking care of plants and trees.
Social Awareness
We promote social aspects among children and make them more social friendly. We encourage our children to understand the dynamics of society and its constituents for better social life and prospective future.
We arrange various awareness programme with special focus on social wellbeing.
Kadapa-problem analysis:
The Kadapa district the state in which the Raja Foundation is located consists mostly of small villages. In these villages because of the climate the only possible work is farming and gardening .It is a very dry area with very little rainfalls. It is raining only in the three months of the monsun. Therefore the earth is very, very dry and the farmers have only one crop per year. Only during these three months the villagers have work. For the rest 9 months of the year they have no work and their day consists of a constant fight for survival. More than 60% of the inhabitants belong to the lowest casts and work in total dependence of those who are wealthier. The illiteracy rate is very high and going to school is a privilege. Moreover the people are not aware of the HIV/AIDS problem and if they do not know how to protect themselves and simply neglect the infected because they think that HIV/AIDS can spread only by touching someone. They have not been taught about the prevention and the details of HIV/AIDS. Moreover the hygienical standards are not good and medical aid is only very rare. Due to the poverty and lack of work many people travel to the city in order to find work. There most of them have sexual contacts without protection and thus the virus is spread because they than bring it back to their families and children.
Services provided to HIV/AIDS Infected people:
- Free treatment and medicines
- Free food and shelter
- Councelling service to HIV/AIDS victims and their family members
- Recreation facilities
Moreover the Foundation has started prevention, testing and immediate aid programs. At present 13 outreach workers are employed at Raja Foundation which travel through Andhra Pradesh, offer free AIDS-tests, support HIV-Infected pregnant women and mothers and offer pention programs to Infected people. This work includes:
Mobile. ICTC :
(Integrated counseling and Testing Centre for HIV/ Blood test). A nurse, a doctor and a social worker drive through Andhra Pradesh and give help, councelling and offer free testing in order to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS and help the Infected people by including them in the pention programs so that they get the medicines they need as well as healthy nutritous food.
PPTCT Programme + outreach program:
Rehabilitation services are offered mostly to poor young and/or pregnant mothers infected with AIDS. The virus was transmitted mostly by their migrant husbands. who go away from the families in search of work and come back home after four or five months with the Virus. It is a huge problem at the moment. Most of them live in remote rural areas. There is no transport,no proper roads,no sanitation, no medical facilities, no visits of doctors in the villages. We provide free medication for mother and child to stop the transmission and hand out nutritous food, give councelling and psychological support.
Pension Programmes:
People found positiv with HIV/AIDS are being included in the pension programme of the Pater Raja Foundation which provides nutritous food and medication free of cost for the infected. Because their diat and lifestyle is directly connected to their health situation.
(HIV/AIDS Victims and HIV Pregnancies & Mothers.)
Help in Numbers through these programmes:
- 3535 people attend the outpatient services
- 1577 people attend the patient service
- 418 people attend the admitted service on ART
- 256 people are part of the admitted with HIV/TB services
- 3535 people use councelling service
