A support group for expatriates living in Mumbai

Charities

Byculla Street Children | League of Mercy | Nagpada Neighbourhood House | Prem Dan | Regina Pacis | Shepherd's Widows Home Visits | St Catherines of Siena | Happy Home School for the Blind

Byculla Street Children

We visit the children who live on the streets in the Byculla area of South Mumbai twice a week. As well as providing food, our volunteers help the children with basic literacy and maths tuition.

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League of Mercy

This is a home for orphans or destitute children, located in Byculla (South Mumbai). At present there are about 39 girls living there. Once a month we visit to provide the girls with fruit and eggs.

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Nagpada Neighbourhood House

We visit the Street Children Project here once a week and work with the children, the ages range from 3 - 13. Sometimes there may be as few as 3 children, at other times as many as 30.

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Regina Pacis

This is primarily an orphanage and school for girls aged between 5 and 16 years. It takes children who either have no parents, or whose home circumstances, for whatever reason, are so bad that the parent/parents can no longer look after them. It also runs a night school for school drop-outs and trains girls from outlying villages for work as domestic helpers here in Mumbai.

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Prem Dan

This organisation in South Mumbai helps street children, children of slum dwellers and domestics providing education, nutrition and other facilities. We sponsor 3 girls for their education here and make occasional trips throughout the year to check on their progress. This organisation also has a boarding hostel at Kharghar for older children. These girls are provided with skills such as tailoring, embroidery, computer technology and home science, something that will hopefully help them to earn some money when they return to their village.

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Shepherd's Widows Home

This is a group of about 30 women and 4 men who live in 2 separate homes in the Byculla area of South Mumbai. We visit once a month to chat and play games with them.

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St Catherines of Siena

Volunteers visit this orphanage once a week to do various classroom activities with the younger children.

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Happy Home School for the Blind

Once a week the boys from the school are taken swimming at Breach Candy Club in South Mumbai by some of the ladies from Mumbai Connexions.


NOTE: There are also other opportunities to get involved with local charities. Contact us and someone from the Charity Committee will be able to give you more details.

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