Leprosy is considered as a dreadful disease and though curable, the permanent marks and signs they carry, keep them under scorn and disgrace. More than the disability the disdain they carry is terrible. The stigma attached to this disease imposes a heavy burden upon affected individuals and their families.
At a leprosy colony, Jeevan reaches its patients who are rejected by their families. They get very little medical help from Government sources. During our visits to them they eagerly look forward to seeing us to pour out their hearts and allow their tears to roll down. In addition to listening to them, touching and comforting them, we also provide their essential needs like rice, cotton and bed sheets for their day to day living there only other source is begging. Above all spend time with them and impart that we accept them as they are.
Handicapped Gypsy boy, not by birth but some customer that didn't like him pushed out of the train, as he was trying to sell him beads. Fortunately survived but was crippeld and couldn't move and bascially became a vegetable. Thats when we stepped in 
Gopi one of the rag-pickers was suffering from aids lost his wife, children, job, house. Thats when we met him shared the love of God Helped him rebuild his life and house. Gopi passed away a few months later, he left behind his daughter who is now under our care in a home.
This is our home for the Gyspy Children, they usually beg or eat one meal a day, and don't go to school. They live a very uncivilized lifestyle. They live in tents and when it rains they live on the train station and live very pathetic life. We now have 15 of these children the live in the Jeevan Shalom shelter they have home, food, school, healthcare. Our dream is to see these once hopeless kids educated and responsible adults into the mainstream life in the society. 
