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What SKGA Does: Providing Homes
for Infants and Children, and Community Services
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Homes for Infants
In its Homes for Infants, SKGA provides free, long-term, comprehensive care
for abandoned infants. New-born and young children up to the age of
five years are cared for by dedicated housemothers and assistants.
Homes for Children
In the Children’s Homes, admission is open to all needy, orphaned or
neglected children and young people between six and twenty years of age. No
discrimination is made on the basis of caste, creed, community, class or
culture.
After high school, some children remain members of the ashram to pursue
studies; others continue to live and work at the orphange until they become
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Community Service
Courses in tailoring and agricultural management for young women from the
local rurual communities
- Meaningful employment for poor widows, single women and mothers
- Care for homeless elderly men and women
- Day care service at two nearby villages
- Employment for local labour for agricultural needs
- Distribution to poor families of relief food-aids from the EU.
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Development Goals
SKGA is constructing its own school. The goal is an adequately
equipped primary and secondary school which will allow its young people
and children from surrounding rural families to acquire the benefits of
a modern education. In the past few years, both the Basilian Fathers and
the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association have been generous
donors of this school project.
SKGA is in the process of constructing a small clinic which will
serve both the orphanage and local community. As an example of the
Gurukula tradition, a former orphan who has recently graduated from
medical school wishes to make the clinic part of her practice!
- Self-sufficiency in food production
At present SKGA cultivates fruit and
vegetables on land provided by donors from Canada and France. It is now
preparing land for rice paddy, but this is dependent upon funding for a
much-needed irrigation reservoir. |
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Annual
Report 2002- 2003 |
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