Christa Jyothi Children’s Home- Kolalgiri

As we are in touch with the reality of the society we can ask a question: are al the parents able to care and nourish the child?  Are all the parents or guardian physically able, psychologically sound, and emotionally well balanced morally fit, economically self sufficient to look after their children? All know the answer.  There is a difference between ‘haves and  ‘have notes’, mentally and emotionally balanced and imbalanced, morally upright and immoral, because of all these reasons at the background thousands of children have become orphans, street children, juveniles, child labourers (in hotels, factories, homed etc.) and destitutes.

Our concern is to give to uplift and give future to the children who are caught amidst the thistles and thorns of life.

There are 20 children here at Christa Jyothi Children’s Home, Kolalgiri.  These are from broken homes, from acute poverty, those who have no parents or having one parent who is sick or mentally unsound or an AIDS patient, children who roam about in the streets and are referred here.  Here we write a brief background history to tell you why they are here?

The background of every child is miserable.  There is some story or the other.  All the children are very happy here because they hardly think of their background. Some of them are not even aware of their background.  They live like a family.  To our best efforts we make it possible to give them a family atmosphere and keep them happy.  Together with the physical needs, they have a lot of psychological needs to satisfy. Yet times they are naughty and stubborn.  Regular studies and timetable, prayers, recreation keeps them happy.

We thank you for your generosity; you have come forward to help them.  Do continue thinking of these poor children.  God has many ways to reward your generosity. The prayers of the little ones are heard in God’s sight.  Daily they pray for the people who help them and crave God’s choicest blessings.  “Whatever you do the least of my poor brethren you did to me,” said Jesus.  

Snehalaya, a children's home based in Udyavar (Run by Pallotine Sisters)  

Our Mission at Udyavar

God’s providence opened us the way to begin our apostolate at Udyavar through Mr. & Mrs. Albert and Leena Tauro who donated us a land to be used for any charitable purpose. They happily accepted our proposal to begin a Children’s Home and our mother House constructed the building of the Orphanage. The children are recruited from long distances from  the remote and undeveloped rural area of Bangalore , Mangalore and Udupi District. They are homeless living in rented miserable huts, suffering from starvation and family trauma. Some of the parents are mentally ill, chronically sick without having money to get proper diagnosis of sickness and medical treatment. Their environment is very precarious sanitarily, morally and emotionally.
 
We have  undertaken the task of rearing these children in a loving homely atmosphere respecting and defending the fundamental rights of the child – a right for growth development, recreation and fearless expression of what it thinks without unhealthy prejudices and it is our endeavor to defend the right to be loved and cared for. We intend to assist them until they get settled in life with self sufficiency.

The sisters are also involved in the parish pastoral activities such as teaching catechism, active participation in the BCC meetings, family visits, animation of liturgical groups and other pious organizations of the parish. In addition to it there are different groups of candidates in our community who aspire to become sisters. Most of them belong to very poor families and we provide for all their needs.

The Congregation, according to the spirit of its Founder, wishes to carry out the message of the gospel to all and so they have been training the Sisters to be missionaries like Christ. Hence, our endeavor is to animate love and charity with simplicity and humility and thus effect unity in the Church.
As St. Vincent Pallotti our Founder who became the precursor and prophet of the 19th century to involve the anointed clergy, the consecrated religious and the baptized lay in the apostolate to spread God's kingdom, all the Pallottines are, by their very allegiance, obliged to strive to promote unity and Christ's charity in all simplicity and humility. By their unstinted efforts they aspire to achieve a situation where every person might live with dignity, pursuing one's own salvation and the salvation of others.

 
We trace our beginnings to the founding of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate in 1835, an association of clergy, religious, and laity founded by St. Vincent Pallotti, a priest of the Diocese of Rome. Its purpose was “to unite the evangelical action, the prayers, offerings, not only of the members but also of all those who would cooperate with it, even once, for the reawakening of faith and piety among Christians and the multiplying of the means necessary to maintain and propagate the Catholic religion." (Appeal of May 1835)

St. Vincent's new society was committed to addressing the many social needs of the day. He took a particular interest in the young girls orphaned by the political upheaval of the day and the cholera plague. In June of 1838 the Society opened for them a house of refuge and education, the "Pia Casa di Carità,"or "Pious House of Charity" and entrusted them to the care of several dedicated women. The work was able to go forward with the assistance of committed laity.

Here began the first apostolic work of those who would come to be known as the Sisters of the Catholic Apostolate, a work that continues today, reflecting in many ways the vision of St. Vincent for a society which fostered unity among priests, religious and laity and is dedicated to fostering the apostolic call of all God's faithful.

Mount Rosary Charitable Society - Alangar

Mount Rosary Charitable Institutions was founded in the year 1937, June 27.  It  has served three fold purposes.

It conducted a tuberculosis sanatorium for 50 patients.  Now they have a small village hospital  with  doctor and sister nurses, taking care not only T.B. patients, 

• It takes care of aged people, who have nobody to take care in their evening time of life
• Mount Rosary shelters destitutes and unwanted people of villages and families
•  Altogether there are 200 people in the above said three fold categories along with children.

 The  sisters also conduct sponsorship programme.  There are hundreds of very poor and backward families who have no means to educate their children.  Therefore we sisters requested an agency in Prague to help children for education.   We get some help from Prague benefactors for education of children around Moodbidri, Hindus, Muslims, Jains and Christians alike are beneficiaries.  Six social worker sisters are working in the programme and each one earns Rs. 3000/-  which is a support for sisters maintenance, besides fruit of agriculture wherein we work at Mount Rosary.