Mangalore: White Doves Rescues Girl abandoned by Family
Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (SP)
Mangalore, Jul 28: White Doves Home is a lay NGO that runs two destitute homes in the city and takes care of about 70 ill or abandoned and devastated women, small kids and a few old men, with help from philanthropists in the city. While the primary aim of the organization is to tend to those souls who have no one to look to, it says, sometimes it comes across incidents that are hard to believe and totally inhuman, like a recent incident as explained here below.
On the morning of June 23, a man visited White Doves Home to enquire as to whether they could take care of a girl who is mentally retarded. On inquiry, it was found that the girl has close ones who can take care of the her and hence, the man was told gently, that admitting this girl would not be possible.
At around 10.30 pm the same day, in the rainy dark night, when the inmates of the Home were sleeping, the Home received a call. The caller said that a girl was found dumped at the gates of the Home and quickly hung up without giving space for further queries or leaving behind any clues about his identity. Upon reaching the gates, those running the Home found a scrawny, highly malnourished teenaged girl, who could barely stand. Her bones were jutting out of her skinny body. She was taken in and offered food.
After giving her a refreshing bath and customary cleansing, she was questioned about her background. She could only say that her name was Prasanna Kumari. She suffers from tuberculosis and was being treated at the government Wenlock Hospital in the city. She spoke in Konkani and most of what she says is not coherent and she is slow in thought.
White Doves Home authorities say, it is hard to believe that a family can abandon a loved one just because he/she is mentally or physically ill. The fact that a person from the family is discarded for the sake of comfort and happiness of the others in the family, goes to show the extent of self-centredness of human beings and the extent to which the society has become uncaring of their own offspring or sibling. In such circumstances, a statement made by Mother Theresa, saint of the gutters, passes through one's mind. "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other," she had said. How true!
‘White Doves’ mostly picks up its inmates from the streets or when somebody has no one to fall back on or to care for. At present, the organization has been taking care of 68 inmates, whose physical, medical and spiritual needs are looked after by it.
For further details, the following site may be visited: www.whitedoves.org.in. The organization’s email addresses are: mail@whitedoves.org.in; whitedovesmangalore@hotmail.com