After being forced into an arranged marriage, Barsha was abused by her in-laws and new husband. The Girls Dream Home changed her life. Listen to her whole story now!
Read MoreBishal Barick moved into the Boys Dream Home in 2018, before construction was complete. He was in the first class of 17 boys to move in. He’s 19 now and studying in what is equivalent to 10th grade in the United States.
Bishal was born with an illness that makes his left side weaker than his right. Right away, his birth mother saw that he had some special needs. We believe that she was probably not married and when she realized he was ill, she decided to abandon her baby in the hospital.
Read MoreMonika is 16-years-old and has lived in the Girls Dream Home since it first opened in October of 2016. Her mother is a cook and her father is a sweeper at a local eye hospital in Kolkata. Her father is also married to another woman, who he currently lives with, and does not provide any support to Monika’s mother and family…
Read MoreOne of the questions we are often asked is, “How do you pick which kids go to the Dream Homes?”
It’s not an easy question to answer, mostly because there are SO many kids that would benefit from living in the Dream Homes who deserve to be rescued out of the trauma and tragic living situation they are in. The best way to summarize the “how” is that SEED tries to rescue the worst case scenarios. The kids who are severely abused or the families that are in dangerous poverty.
Read MoreSayanti is from the Nalpur slum. She is an eight-year-old girl who lost her father when she was four, then her mother right before her seventh birthday. Both parents suffered from severe jaundice, which lead to kidney failure. Because of the lack of medical care and financial resources, there was nothing that could be done to treat it.
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