Operation Blessing Feeds 1,600 Homeless in India over the Holidays
More than 1,600 homeless in India were beneficiaries of Operation Blessing India’s feeding program and medical clinic during the Christmas season.
More than 1,600 homeless in India were beneficiaries of Operation Blessing India’s feeding program and medical clinic during the Christmas season.
In Hyderabad, India, the humanitarian agency opened the doors of Wesley Church on Dec. 17 and welcomed the sick and homeless for a holiday meal and free medical exams and medicines.
The one-day outreach provided a nutritious lunch, medical attention, and offered attendees help to find shelter.
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Among those who attended the outreach were Pentiah and his eight-year-old daughter Divya.
Pentiah and his family used to live in Zaheerabad, a town 180 km away from Hyderabad, where he and his family worked as farm laborers and Divya went to school. But after two years of no monsoon rains, his crops failed and he found himself without a job and no way to make a living, OBI reported.
He had left to look for work in Hyderabad but shortly after arriving he began to suffer from asthma. Because of his coughing, no one would give him a job and soon after his wife left him. Left with no option, Pentiah began begging in the streets of Secunderabad.
Last month during the outreach, Pentiah and Divya received much-needed medical attention and medicines. Moreover, a doctor even offered to continue to treat Pentiah at the General Hospital for free.
OBI team members took Divya, along with three other girls, and placed them into a children’s home. Pentiah accompanied the team to see the home where his daughter would stay and expressed his happiness at knowing his daughter can now go to school like other children her age.
