The Vicente Ferrer Foundation is on governmental
development organisation in one of the poorest areas of India, the rural area of Andhra Pradesh in the
south of India.
It was founded by Vicente Ferrer, a catalan missioner in 1969 in order to improve
the living conditions of the most discriminated community in the hindy system
of casts: the Dalits, also called “the untouchables”. They help them with their
basic needs, such as water supply, planting, medical care, free school for boys
and girls. The organisation is now benefitting about two and a half million
people. The whole project is financed by donations from spanish companies and
privat people. You can be the godfather/mother of a child paying a small amount
each month to help. So they do not need to work when they are so small with
only 5 or 6 years.
I know the organisation of Vicente Ferrer because or
family is regularly sending packages and letters to a boy called Murali. He is
now 15 and we got to know him through the organisation about 11 years ago when
he was 4 years old. Every year we send him clothes, toys and school plies and
they send us a photo and a letter of him. He writes in “telugu”, we cannot read
or understand it, but it is translated by a volunteer.
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