08-18-2007, 09:40 AM
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By IE
Saturday August 18, 05:30 AM
<b>The VHP is planning to set up a home at Siddhpur in Mehsana for abandoned children, senior citizens and women who have been thrown out of their home, where they would be formed into family units</b>. "Each child will get a mother and a grandparent. <b>We will adopt the children with permission from police.</b> In recent years an increasing number of children have been found abandoned in hospital compounds and public places," says VHP's sahprant pracharak for Gujarat and Rajasthan, Prakash Sharaff.
<b>Fifty acres of land for the 'vatsalya gram' has been donated by a California-based Gujarati businessman. The home is expected to be ready in a few months</b>.
Facilities planned for the 'vatsalya gram' include separate residential complexes for children, old age home for senior citizens and a women's home<b>. Each woman will be mother to three-five children, says </b>Sharaff adding: "This is an unique social concept backed by renowned psychiatrists." The children will also attend inhouse school where they will receive education in the subjects they are interested in, he says.
"Ganpat Patel from USA donated the land. More donations were made by NRIs hailing from Gujarat. We will start the project in September, following a yagna in Surat as a number of businessmen from Surat have contributed generously to the cause," says Sharaff.
<b>The concept was formulated by sadhvi Rutumbhara and a project is already on in Mathura on a ten-acre space. Currently $ 600 is being received as donation per child. Around 120 children have been taken in at the Mathura home, he said. The VHP had earlier undertaken a similar initiative for children hailing from troubled areas in the North-East.</b>
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By IE
Saturday August 18, 05:30 AM
<b>The VHP is planning to set up a home at Siddhpur in Mehsana for abandoned children, senior citizens and women who have been thrown out of their home, where they would be formed into family units</b>. "Each child will get a mother and a grandparent. <b>We will adopt the children with permission from police.</b> In recent years an increasing number of children have been found abandoned in hospital compounds and public places," says VHP's sahprant pracharak for Gujarat and Rajasthan, Prakash Sharaff.
<b>Fifty acres of land for the 'vatsalya gram' has been donated by a California-based Gujarati businessman. The home is expected to be ready in a few months</b>.
Facilities planned for the 'vatsalya gram' include separate residential complexes for children, old age home for senior citizens and a women's home<b>. Each woman will be mother to three-five children, says </b>Sharaff adding: "This is an unique social concept backed by renowned psychiatrists." The children will also attend inhouse school where they will receive education in the subjects they are interested in, he says.
"Ganpat Patel from USA donated the land. More donations were made by NRIs hailing from Gujarat. We will start the project in September, following a yagna in Surat as a number of businessmen from Surat have contributed generously to the cause," says Sharaff.
<b>The concept was formulated by sadhvi Rutumbhara and a project is already on in Mathura on a ten-acre space. Currently $ 600 is being received as donation per child. Around 120 children have been taken in at the Mathura home, he said. The VHP had earlier undertaken a similar initiative for children hailing from troubled areas in the North-East.</b>
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