Bapuji Children's Home
Bapuji Childrens Home, started with 8 children, is now giving shelter to over 40; majority of whom are girls. Some of them are abandoned children, who are abandoned by parents or picked up from the street. Others are children of single mothers or other parents who cannot take care of them for various reasons. All are legally committed to our care by the Child Welfare Committees.
Adoptable children are given temporary shelter and then transferred to recognized Adoption Centers, as per orders of the Child Welfare Committees.
The home also takes care of some orphan special needs children, who are sent to Mysore Spastic Society for therapy on regular basis. These children will spend their lives with us, whatever Almighty grants them.
Children who live in the Home are sent to local schools. All the children are provided with special coaching. They are encouraged to excel in their education and a lot of importance is given to their holistic development. Effort is made to place children who have completed their high school into skill/trade courses. This gives them a sense of pride as they start their working life. Besides working, some of the girls also continue education through correspondence.
Some of the bright girls get admissions in nursing colleges and have qualified to join this noble medical profession.
Children come, children go, but life at the Home goes on. With the girls growing up and attaining marriageable age one more responsibility of the Trust is to find suitable bridegrooms for these girls.
The Home has celebrated over 40 weddings so far, of which some were Christian Ceremonies. Their families have started to grow; most girls have become mothers themselves.
