These are the words of Dolly, Director of Veda Ministries, describing the Krupa Home. (Krupa means "grace.")This home is a haven for older women who, after a lifetime of service to their husbands and children, end up living on the streets. In some cases their husband has died and in other cases they have been abandoned. But in all cases they face their last years of life as homeless beggars, depending on the kindness of passersby for their livelihood.

These women have children, but because their children are also poor and now have families of their own, they see an older woman as a burden, another mouth to feed, unable to contribute anything to the family. Sometimes these women may live with their children for a while but are made to feel like such a burden, they are forced to leave.

The Krupa community provides these women with good food, medical care and clothing. Most of all, Krupa gives them a sense of belonging, of being part of a loving Christian environment where they are cared for and cherished.

It costs $34 to provide care for one month for each woman at Krupa. Would you consider a gift to help care for the women at Krupa? To see profiles of women who are waiting for sponsorship, please click here.

Dolly's vision for Krupa Home:
"They need to be taught to depend on God and spend their last days at the feet of the Lord, forgetting everything else that belongs to the earth; praising HIM for all that HE has given."

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."

James 1:27