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Balamma Satram at Holy Family Home for the Needy - Sharing Our Love India is a vast country – the UK can fit into it 12 times

National language is Hindi, but each state has its own language

Balamma Satram is situated in the Kadapa region of Andhra Pradesh in the South East of India

Telegu is the language spoken in the State of Andhra Pradesh

70% of people in Kadapa do not have sufficient food to eat

Some do not have drinking water and have to walk some distanceto get water

In the cities, animals roam among the people, but in the villages the animals live with the people

In the cities and towns they have open sewers outside their homes. In the villages there are no toilets and people use fields and roadsides

LIVING FOR A CAUSE- DOING SOMETHING MEANINGFUL

When we live for a cause, serving humanity, especially those living without the basic facilities, we experience true happiness and our own lives become truly fulfilled. Balamma Satram Holy Family Home for the Needy offers a home to the most needy people whose lives are transformed by living there. The sick are offered medical aid, the elderly are given a purpose in life and the will to live. Children are given excellent education and young teenage girls are taught how to sew and make a living for themselves and their families.

Balamma Satram at Holy Family Home for the Needy - Sharing Our Love

Desperate Conditions in Surrounding VillagesVillage families living in tent like conditions, they have no proper home.

Balamma Satram at Holy Family Home for the Needy - Sharing Our LoveDesperate Conditions in Surrounding VillagesThese are the desperate conditions where families have to live after their homes have been destoyed to make way for new roads. The well on the left has dried up and so people have only the bare minimum of clean water. The water in the picture top left is all open sewerage.


The home of a poor family

These are the living conditions of a poor family living in the rural areas of the Kadapa district. All the family live in the one room, there is no furniture and cooking is done on an open fire.

Balamma Satram at Holy Family Home for the Needy - Sharing Our LoveWater & sewerage conditions in India

Young child taking water to aged grandparent

Open sewer outside houseOpen sewer outside house

Using dirty water collected for washing cooking pots

No clean water for miles – lady collecting dirty water for

her use

Since the year 2000, there has been very little rain. Most people live from day to day, water is a luxuary, something we take for granted here in the western world. Disease is rife because of the open sewers.


Child being washed with sewerage water

Carrying water to the village to be used for

washing, cooking and

drinking No water for man or animals

In most rural villages there is a hand pump for water but many times it does not work because of all the dust and so many people resort to using water from the sewers!


A typical shop

Animals roaming the

street

General Pictures of Indian Life

Typical Indian travel

Animals roam the streets and there is so much rubbish lying around. Everything is mingled together causing much infection and disease.Travel is at your peril!!!

Balamma Satram at Holy Family Home for the Needy - Sharing Our Love In the year 2000 Fr Sarves took up the challenge to take care of the destitute people in the

Kadapa diocese

During a visit to England, Fr Sarves spoke to Mary about his mission. Mary also took up this challenge with the help of some friends

26 acres of land was bought and from 2002 onwards a village now called Holy Family Home for the Needy has been built

Between 2002 and 2016 many thousands of people have been cared for

The houses which have been built are to Western standards

There is clean, running drinking water (both hot and cold)

Energy is provided by solar panels

The people are provided with food, accommodation, health care and the children receive an education


Balamma Satram

Road sign for Holy Family

Home for the Needy

Fr SarvesDirector of Holy Family Home for

the Needy in Kadapa

Map of Kadapa

Designing the village – Fr

Sarves, Mary, John and the

Engineer 2005


Development of the Land at Balamma Satram

Clearing of Land purchased in 2002 Land cleared in 2004

Planting & harvesting the crops from 2010

Clutivated land

From dry uncultivated land to an oasis in the desert!

Balamma Satram at Holy Family Home for the Needy - Sharing Our LoveDevelopment of the Land at Balamma Satram

Everybody working hard on the paddi (field where the rice crop is cultivated)

Even the visitors from England help out while they are there

There is enough rice now to last for 2 years

Balamma Satram at Holy Family Home for the Needy - Sharing Our LoveDevelopment of the Buildings at Balamma Satram

First hut with small water jar and compound

wall to keep out wild animals

First building under

construction in 2004

Admin. Block under

construction in 2004

Traditional mud hut

where local people live

Completed beginning of

2005 and extended in

2015

Over a period of three years several bungalow type homes have been built, each can accomodate up to 20 persons. The administration unit was completed in January 2005. The building now consists of three floors, the upper floor for accomodation.


Each home has a courtyard with shower block and wash

facilities

Study room for the children

Each home has a Western style toilet

Each person has a bed with a mosquito net which is very

important in preventing malaria

First hospital building


Completed Chapel and Community Hall 2007

Chapel and Community Hall under construction 2005

Chapel and Community Hall under construction 2006/7


Entrance to Balamma Satram showing Christian, Hindu &

Muslim symbols – a Holy Family home for all

Village by 2009

Children and the elderly enjoying the fruits of our

giving

Holy Family village life!

An oasis in the desert


2009 2016 – covered by tree plantation

Between 2007 and 2016, 1000 trees have been planted. The tree plantation was necessary to give shade for all those living in the village. In this part of the Kadapa district the temperature rises to over 50 Celsius.


Fr Sarves, Mary, Fr Jeff, CMC Sisters,

Hannah & Emily Green

The village is run by Fr Sarves with the help of the CMC sisters seen here with Mary, Fr Jeff and Hannah and Emily Green. Above Fr Sarves with some of the people in the chapel.

Sumiah’s Funeral – Saturday 9th January


Dignity in Death

When anyone dies in the village they are all given a dignified burial.

Balamma Satram at Holy Family Home for the Needy - Sharing Our LoveBuilding Completed with Donations from St Thomas More School, Blaydon

The third floor of this building was funded by St Thomas More School in Blaydon.


Building Completed with Donations from St Thomas More School, Blaydon

Interior of a bedroom and toilet.

Balamma Satram at Holy Family Home for the Needy - Sharing Our LoveNew Hospital Building in Progress 2016In January 2016, Mary, Fr Jeff and Hannah and Emily Green visited the village and helped to carry the sand and bricks for the new building.

Balamma Satram at Holy Family Home for the Needy - Sharing Our LoveNew Hospital Building in Progress 2016

Pongal Festival Activities in Balamma Satram Viliage 2016Balamma Satram at Holy Family Home for the Needy - Sharing Our Love

On 13th January 2016 the feast of Pongal or harvest was celebrated. Everyone joined in the natural rural celebrations.


How we supplied clean, drinking water at Balamma Satram

The water is used for crops for the village

Water tank under construction to hold 80,000 litres of fresh water View of completed tank

within the village complex

Solar panels used to heat the waterShower block and wash

areaWestern toilet facilities

In 2004 when the project began there was no water supply. Over the years we have sunk 4 bore wells, each 465 feet deep into the ground. Water is pumped up into the overhead tank which was built, this holds 80,000 litres of water. The water is then pumped back into all the houses. Hot water is also available from the installation of solar panels.


Children being picked up from the villages

Typical village house where children originally lived

Rich children in uniform

Destitute family with nowhere to live

Poor children without any

clothing

Visiting destitute children in the area around Balamma Satram

Children have come to the village from the poorest living conditions.


The Children being Supported at Balamma Satram

Children gathered and going from basic eating on the floor to having tables and chairs

Village life from gathering together, learning to sew and getting to know English sponsors

Even time for play and relaxatio

n

Balamma Satram at Holy Family Home for the Needy - Sharing Our LoveThe Children being Supported at Balamma Satram

Children being taken to schools for education

Not all children in India receive an education – it is just for the rich unless there are sponsorships

like ours



Children who are reaping the rewards of our sponsorship

programme

Balamma Satram at Holy Family Home for the Needy - Sharing Our LoveThe Children being Supported at Balamma Satram by UK parishes

At Holy Family Home for the Needy everybody gives a helping hand! Children

help the elderly, serving food, cleaning and giving medicine and even a daily chat


Children writing to English sponsors – all done in the

open air as are most things in India

Balamma Satram at Holy Family Home for the Needy - Sharing Our LoveOur Children at Balamma Satram in better conditions


Teenagers being Supported by Balamma Satram


Some of the needy people being cared for at Balamma Satram


Schools which Balamma Satram Children AttendYerraguntla CMC Convent School, St Joseph’s English Medium School, Pulevendula Loyola College and University, St Anthony’s Don Bosco Engineering College and St Ann’s College, Guntur


Mentally & Physically Challenged Children Supported by our Charity in 2016

Balamma Satram at Holy Family Home for the Needy - Sharing Our LoveThe Elderly and Sick being Supported at Balamma Satram

This man’s name is Shindi. This

name was given to him by Fr

Sarves – he does not speak the

native language so no-one knows his real name. In

2007 he was found by Fr

Sarves, Mary and Fr Jeff in the

hospital dump. Now in 2016 he is

still with usHe was suffering from leprosy and

ulcerated wounds. He was taken to Balamma Satram

where he was treated with

medicine bought by the money raised for the

Home

This is Shindi in 2016 completely cured and

enjoying life in Balamma Satram Holy Family Home

for the Needy

Dr Shennoy administering to the sick


Helping the elderly over the years in Holy Family

Home


Fr Sarves with an elderly, sick person

The children of Holy Family Entertaining the Elderly residents

The Elderly residents in the dining hall at Holy Family

The Elderly residents in

the community hall at Holy

Family

The Elderly residents

outside the bungalow

homes at Holy Family


Sunset at Balamma Satram

Working together with Bishop Prasad – discussing the interests of Balamma

Satram

Balamma Satram at Holy Family Home for the Needy - Sharing Our LoveBalamma Satram in 2016 – Home to hundreds of Needy people

and children over the past ten years.

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