Street Dwellers and narikurvas [tribal people}

Street Dwellers and narikurvas [tribal people}

A group of about 100 families live by way side and railway station away from the Tambaram town, under temporary shelters made of plastics or thatched huts. Most of these families have sad stories to tell of some serious sickness like HIV-AIDS, T.B., cancers of different kind, kidney failures, and disabilities of blindness or mentally retardation. They sustain their life by begging or rag-picking. They are either runaway people or rejected by their relatives and the society. They hardly have any belongings and not fit for getting a work in the town. Jeevan reaches them and attends to some of their specific needs. A doctor joins the team to help with medication and medical guidance to access appropriate hospitals that they can afford or get free treatment. Jeevan also provides the basic needs such as rice, clothes, blankets. We also help them put small thatched roof houses alongside the railway platforms. We assist them during the death of these people as they are not allowed to be buried in the regular cemetery since they are outcasts, we bury them in the mountain and take care of expenses. Spending time and counseling them is no less service for these least people who live with desperation.