Overview of Street Outreach

 

After the Sneha Sagar Society had done the above-mentioned outreach activities, Sr Martha felt the need to continue this noble service to our poor brothers and sisters on the streets of Mumbai. We decided to cover the Streets from Dahisar to Andheri. Every Saturday, the Sisters and volunteers distribute cooked or donated food to the poor on the streets. Sometimes we go Andheri and sometimes we go Dahisar side. Every week we distribute food to 100 to 300 people.

  

 

 

·       Outreach to quench the thirst of the thirsty

One day during summer when we were distributing food to the poor on the street, a small child came up to us and asked us to give him water. Because of this we decided to start a new project to distribute water along with food. We made an appeal to the people to donate their used water bottles to us so that we could reuse them. We would clean and fill those bottles and distribute water too along with the food to the poor on the streets.

  

  

 

·       Monsoon outreach 2019

   We made an appeal to the people to donate umbrellas to us and we distributed nearly 2000 umbrellas to the poor people in villages and on the streets of Mumbai.

 

      

 

·       Winter outreach

We couldn’t be at rest knowing that all our poor brothers and sisters are shivering in the cold. We appealed to the people to donate blankets to us so that we could distribute it to the needy. We distributed nearly 1600 blankets to the poor on the streets of Mumbai and the Villages. We took permission and distributed blankets to KEM, TATA and Ambedkar hospital.

   Outreach on 15^th August 2019

 On 15^th August 2019, the Sneha Sagar Society, the Legion of Mary and one of the communities of the Parish of St Anthony in Malad West   distributed food, water and footwear to 400 poor people on the streets. We also did something unique that is celebrated Raksha bandhan with our poor brothers on the street by tying them Rakhi and giving them sweets.