“No! This can’t be happening!” Janna* shuddered. Abandonment engulfed her. Much of her married life had been a nightmare. She had to walk on eggshells around her alcoholic husband, always fearing when his next beating would come. But harder than the abuse she suffered was the dizzying reality that she had been deserted; her husband had abandoned her and her […]
I longed to know my roots. Being an orphan and growing up in a children’s home I longed to know where I had been born. I wanted to find my biological parents. I also did not know how I came to Mukti Mission. I was only told that I had a brother, my only relative. He lived in another orphanage […]
“Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind.”-Psalm 107: 21 She stood at the front gate of Mukti Mission, pregnant and forsaken. With no place to call home, no family to take her in, and an overwhelming sense of abandonment and hopelessness. Mukti was her salvation. The last resort. A place […]
Mukti means Salvation Oh! What a beautiful sunrise. Aren’t we all going to worship the sun god? Exclaimed Swati*. Having come from a very staunch family background, Swati was fully aware of the idolatry that was so rampant in her home and neighborhood. Swati was 9 years old when she came to Mukti Mission and these practices were fresh on her mind. She did […]
Steam seemed to rise to the sky from the ground, returning from the sky only to stick to me like an unwanted blanket. Summer afternoon heat in south-central India can be brutal.
At the age of four, Pushpa* witnessed her father’s death and then watched throughout her childhood as her mother, dying of AIDS, grew sicker and weaker.
With my arm lightly draped across Jarita’s* shoulders, I sat next to the sobbing three-year-old (who had positioned herself in the corner of the room) as tears pooled in my own eyes as well.
The girls were about to go on the much-awaited trip. During the summer holidays, many of the resident girls return to their families. However, for some girls, Mukti is their only home.
Succumbing to family pressure and her dreams, she had backed out of a vow made to the Lord and things went downhill from there. When her hopes for studying further fell flat and she was driven almost to suicide, she was reminded that the way out was by clinging to God’s Word.
Many men in India ask similar questions of their wives when they give birth to only girls and they have faulty information regarding faith and fertility issues.
Sunil* developed a brain tumor and died within four months. This left his grieving wife and three young children alone.
Born in Nepal, Sheela’s father deserted the family, and her mother couldn’t handle her emotional issues, the care of her other children, and the special care needed for Sheela. She desperately needed Mukti’s intervention.
Her mother-in-law routinely harassed Shantel. She arranged for her to do day labor on a farm and then come home to perform multiple tasks that she never seemed to accomplish to her mother-in-law’s desires, which resulted in Shantel being physically abused.