As soon as the Home was setup in September, 2005, I came to hear of a woman near Medchal bus stop, who seemed depressed and lost. I went there and saw her sitting near the dustbin and eating deteriorated food. She tore pieces of cloth from the rags strewn around and tied them to her hair. There were almost 10 kgs of rags tied to her hair. Her scalp was hanging down because of the weight. When I tried to talk to her she tried to avoid me. I instinctively called her Lakshmi and she surprisingly responded. I asked her to come home with me. She agreed. I informed the Medchal police station and took her home. It took 3 hours for me and my husband to shave her head as there was no way to get rid of the rags tied to her hair.

   Lakshmi, thus, became the first inmate of our Home. She speaks Marathi and sings beautiful bhajans in Marathi imagining herself before an audience by closing her fist like a mike.

Before coming to home		After coming to home

I came to know of a destitute, depressed soul on the road in Gajularamaram, Rangareddy district. He did not have a left leg. The local people said he was staying on the road for about 18 years. He did not talk to anybody and looked about 45 years old. When I spoke to him he told me that his name was Vijay and was brought to the Home. He is still with the Home and in good health.

Vijay Before		Vijay in the home

The story of Pooja is somewhat similar. We got a call from Bhainsa, a small rural town in Adilabad district that a paralyzed woman was laying in the bus shelter there. I requested the callers to bring her to the Home. They brought her in a vehicle. She was very depressed and her left hand and leg were both paralyzed perhaps because of dirty surroundings and food. I was told that she gave birth to a child at the bus shelter and the child was handed over to a child home. It appears that she tried to burn herself earlier as there were burn scars on her body. She was given a bath and clothed properly and taken care of. In a few days, her left leg became normal. Her left hand is still paralyzed. She later told us that her name is Pooja.

   At present there are 35 inmates in the "Pallavi Anadha Vrudhapya and Mentally Retorted Home (Pallavi Destitute, Old Age and Mentally Retarded Home). About 60 inmates were brought to the Home in the last 6 years.

	POOJA

Before		After at Pallavi Home

Before Yadi		After Yadi at Pallavi Home

Before Chandrakala		After Chandrakala at Pallavi Home