Lighting the Easter Candle in a Delhi slum

The celebration will be marked by felicitations of fifty children from the area.

New Delhi:  The practice of lighting the Paschal candle will be more than just a ritual this time around for Caritas India and its staff.

On March 29 Caritas India staff in collaboration with Dhruv Social Awareness Forum will light the Easter Candle at one of Delhi’s dumping ground situated at Jalvihar, Lajpat Nagar II.
The celebration will be marked by felicitations of fifty children from the area, whose education is being encouraged and facilitated by Dhruv team.

A small donation collected internally by the staff of Caritas India will be extended for the treatment of Sandhya, a patient of congenital nervous system breakdown, leading to very low sensations in her lower body.

Even at this stage, Sandhya is understood to be bright and intelligent and this little support will be significant in initiating the necessary treatment process at All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS).

Sandhya’s mother could not afford the long due treatment as the process needs both time and money, which she could not afford as domestic help, working in more than a few houses.
It is noteworthy this small act of collective kindness by the staff of Caritas India will potentially enhance Sandhya’s scope for better treatment and consecutively a brighter future.

In the coming days, Caritas hopes to map and study the profile of the area for a strategic intervention that may possibly change the lives of as many as 15,000 people who reside here, a sprawling hub of huts split by the tracks Indian railways.

Source: Caritas India