Good Samariton Mission is committed to provide quality education to the children of poor and recovered the children from the risky situation and rehabilitated through residential homes.There are four resrdential homes for children . Mother house, Silvano Nivas and Bal nivas are located at Vikroli and Gyan ashram is placed at Kalamboli. It is engaged in improving the quality of education in the area by promoting remedial school for the purposes of enhancing their quality learning. All relevant measures have been taken to stop child labour, dropout from the school, engaged the children in to rag picking.
This house was also purchased as a small tenement in Vikhroli just about 150 Mtrs. From Mother house and later expanded with an added first floor.
This house accommodates all the older girls. 35 girls stay in this house. All of them go to school. Two of them have completed their school final and go to high school. The girls are taken care of by Sangeetha who lost her first husband and was abandoned by her second was living on the Dadar station platform along with her daughter and son.
Today her daughter Kavita is married and settled with her husband and her child at nearby Pune. Her son Vicky is undergoing training in refrigeration & airconditioning. There are two women to take care of the cooking for the girls.
This house is located on the same lane as that of the Mother House and is just a few doors away. This houses 15 small girls. They are looked after by a caretaker who is herself a destitute and stays there with her daughter. This caretaker not only helps these small girls with their daily routines but also tutors the boys at Mother House every evening. The food for these children comes from the Mother House daily.
Gyan Ashram As we were running short of space in Mumbai for accommodating children and because real estate prices were prohibitive within Mumbai, we decided to locate a larger capacity building in New Mumbai. Thus Gyan Ashram was inaugurated in early 2006. This facility currently houses 35 young and old boys. These children attend school in nearby Government school in New Mumbai. Here we have children from Class II to Class X. They are managed by Mr. Anand an experienced person who used to earlier work at Missionaries of Charity (Mother Teresa's). He stays in the home and is assisted by a cook, an assistant and Mr. Khan who looks after the security.The building is three storied and has ample space for accommodating more children.
At galayagudem, Mother Marry Ashram has been build for orphaned boys and girls. Further, we propose to offer tailoring training for girls and young women in the nearby villages. The villagers in this area are particularly very poor and lead a miserable life.
Bro. Peter Paul had for long wanted to also serve the destitute persons lying on the road uncared for. Mumbai, the commercial capital of India attracts people from all over India who come here in search of a living. The city already bursting at its seams in terms of infrastructure cannot realistically cope with such inflow of population everyday. Real estate prices have sky-rocketed and a poor person cannot afford housing even on a rental basis. Most such people wind up living on the streets, outside railway / bus stations, under the flyovers etc. There are many cases of elderly parents who are discarded by their own children and have no place to go. Many of the older persons fall sick and the Government Hospitals are also lacking in sufficient bed capacity. There are also people who are injured but with no proper treatment and no shelter their wounds get aggravated and they lie around on the streets. It was to cater to such disadvantaged and destitute persons, that Vijay Ashram was opened in the year 2004. This was again as per Mother Teresa's wish that no person should die on the street uncared and unloved. 'Providing dignity in life and in death' for such people is the main objective of Vijay Ashram. It is to be noted that many such old persons come / or brought to Vijay Ashram in their last stages when their illnesses is in such an advanced stage that recovery is rather difficult. All we can do in such cases is give them peaceful and decent last days and when they pass away, we perform their last rites according to their belief. Currently there are about 35 residents here. Mr.Anand an orphaned youngster who has been with the mission since child hood manages the facility with the help of Amar Bhai and Bengali Babu who bathe the geriatric persons some of whom cannot even stand up or walk and also wash their clothes etc. Jaan a youngster without his family stays here and voluntarily dresses the wounds of all patients as skillfully as a nurse. The cooking is done by workers. Thus this house is an example of how a group of young / middle aged / old persons who have no one to look after them live together and help one another in a wonderful environment of camaraderie. There is a TV with cable connection for the entertainment of the elderly gents. Till date (i.e. in little over 14 years) 1887 destitute males have been catered to. Of whom 741 have passed away in our care. There are many instances of the Mumbai Police department bringing such street dwelling seriously sick and wounded destitute persons from different parts of Mumbai because they cannot be accommodated in Government hospitals. Till date we have admitted 486 patients brought to us by the Mumbai Police Department. These patients stay till they recover and then they are discharged or assisted in reaching their hometown.
Vijay Ashram has a limited capacity and there is no scope for expansion in the existing location except vertically which is legally not allowed beyond the existing ground plus first floor. With growing number of destitute persons being brought in by us / social workers and the Police, we decided to have an additional home at Kalyan which is little over an hour's drive away from Vikhroli. This facility is built on 1 acre of land. The building itself is smaller and can accommodate about 15 persons only. We find the need to expand the facility here but are currently lacking the necessary funds for the same.
