The Joshua team
This team works with children in railway stations, traffic signals, the red-light area and in the slums. Though our target age group is children between 3 to 11 years old, the team also works with infants and teenagers. Religion and castes are no bar when it comes to taking care of these kids. ‘Soup, Soap and Salvation’ is what we follow on the streets. Feeding, medical-aid and counseling are the main focus. The children’s greatest physical need that we meet is food; they are malnourished and survive on leftovers and greasy street food. The team also gives basic first-aid and takes the more serious ones to the nearest public hospitals. Some of the teenage boys and girls who are addicted to drugs are counseled and taken to various drug de-addiction (detox) centres in the city.

The children are counseled with a lot of love and are encouraged to quit the street life and come into the shelters to pursue education or some vocational training.

The Rahab team
This team works in the red-light district with girls and women. The team first prays with the CSW’s (Commercial Sex Workers) and counsels them over time to leave this profession and encourages them to enter alternate vocational programs
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The team works with the children of the CSW’s in the hopes that the mother will allow the child to come and live in our shelter and out of the dangers of the brothels. This is an incredibly painful decision a CSW makes. Their children are the only person many times that has ever loved them, to give them up would leave a void in their own hearts. Many do, desiring a better future for their child. We make arrangements for the CSW to visit and see their children in the shelter or at a designated location outside of the red-light area.

The team teaches English language classes and also brings medicines to the CSW’s when needed. We also bring special treats, like cookies and small cakes and pies.

We want to bring a ray of hope into this dim world.