By Atul Lekhra | Manager- Resource Mobilization
Dear Friend,
Meena (name changed) could find her family back after 3 long months of being separated from them.
The story goes back to 2018 when a woman with a young girl was found by paralegal volunteers (from District Legal Services Authority) in very poor conditions. They brought her to our shelter home to provide her safety. Upon investigation, it was found that she was mentally unstable and facing depression for a long time. She could not offer much of her whereabouts but from her language we understood that she hailed from Uttar Pradesh state. Our shelter home further investigated more and contacted Uttar Pradesh police station to enquire about her. Police found her family and asked her husband Mahesh (name changed) to go for verification to the Seva Mandir shelter home. Meanwhile, Meena continued to stay at the shelter home with her daughter.
Mahesh came to Seva Mandir shelter home and briefed about the history of his family. He said that 4 years back they lost a 3-month-old baby boy. Meena was in depression since then and 3 months back she left home with her 3-year-old daughter. Mahesh and his family tried very hard to find her but could not trace her. They even filed a lost report in the police station but came empty-handed. Slowly they lost all hopes of finding her.
When he received information about Meena being alive and safe, he could not believe it at first. He is not sure how she reached so far from home. He cried tears of joy when he saw his wife and daughter and the daughter was more than just happy on seeing her father after so long. The family left happily for their native and Mahesh was given counseling on how to take care of Meena’s depression.
Shelter Home is not just for abused and helpless, it is a home for everyone and the doors are open for all. The aim of our shelter home is to bond the families and in every case, the first attempt is to reunite the families.
Thank you for your support and for the confidence that you have placed in us. None of this would have been possible without you. With your precious support we have been and we will be able to translate Seva Mandir's commitment into a meaningful change.
Congratulations to Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for being conferred with the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science. It is a proud and joyful moment for Seva Mandir and the communities of Udaipur region with whom they conducted studies on Health and Education.
Thank you so much.
Regards
Atul Lekhra & the Seva Mandir Team
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