Gedingia

Mercy Home

Each Mercy Home has a family atmosphere based on love and compassion. Every home shares a building with the local Christian church. The pastor is like the father, and the care givers are like moms, aunts and grandmas.

Our Warm Blankets Orphan Care team was assisting the indigenous leaders in Orissa as they established five new mercy homes in the district of Orissa. All went smoothly. We registered children in all five temporary shelters. Most of the children were true orphans and a few were from withering poverty families where survival of the parents was doubtful.

Violence erupted about 15 days after the children were processed and placed in their temporary

shelters.

This Mercy Home and four others in the Orissa district have been torched. The children were driven off into the jungle but not seriously hurt. Some of the homes may be repaired, but the smell of smoke and the loss of every possession is a constant reminder of the violence they faced.

Some of the children may have contracted malaria in the jungle, but they are doing well in an undisclosed refuge until new quarters can be established.