I am umamageshwari 18 year old, from Tamil Nadu.I lost my parents & my younger sister when I was just 3years old. After their death I started living with my maternal grand parents, my grand mother was my step grandmother due to which she never liked me. She would make me do all household work even though she had children who were much older to me but she would make me do everything. I was put into a government school were the cost of the uniform was just Rs70/- but she never brought it for me, then with the help of my teachers I got the uniform free of cost from school. I was a brilliant student in my class, I really had great desire & ambitions to study & to reach higher level s in life but it never seemed possible as I had no opportunities for it. My life was just going on with no meaning.

But one day my aunty who stayed in Mumbai had come to Tamil Nadu for a visit, so when she saw me in this condition she decided to take me along with her to Mumbai. Then I had come along with her to Mumbai, but even here I found it difficult to stay. As the man that my aunty was living with was not good, he would beat us up & he also tried abusing me sexually. Because of this man I had to leave my aunt’s house & I started staying with one family where I would work for the whole day as their maid, so every morning I would had to get up early & do all sort of work & then I would be allowed to go to school. The lady in whose house I worked ,never liked me, she would ill treat me & would give me lot of work to do during the day,& because of which I couldn’t study during the day & she wouldn’t even allow me to study during the night also. somehow my aunty came to know about this lady’s behavior & she decided to take me out of that place & to send me to Ashasthan.It was for the 1st time that I heard about Jesus, at beginning everything about Jesus was a fake to me but slowly I understood His love for me. I never experienced that love & feeling of acceptance before, the way I felt in Ashasthan.God has really been faithful to me He also helped me pass my SSC exams with very good marks & above that He made it possible for me to get admission in one of the best college of NaviMumabi.During my SSC exams I was very much concerned as to if I would get good marks or not & I would always worry about my future as to what will happen but at this time I was not alone I had people who were supporting me, I received a lot encouragement from the people of Ashasthan through which I could come out with flying colours.Getting admission in the college that iam today was also not a simple task, many of my friends in school had discouraged me by saying that I wouldn’t get admission in that college, but I had faith & I prayed not only me but whole Ashasthan family was with me in pray & the answer of our prayer came very soon & not only did I get the admission but I also got almost 50% of concession in my college fees, And now iam actually living the life of my dreams, as I always dreamt of becoming a software engineer & iam actually on the way of becoming a software engineer .This is really like a dream come true & I can say that this is truly Gods doing,we as human don’t understand Him but he understands us very well, He is aware of our every feeling,thoughts,pains & now cannot just stop loving such a marvelous God. Am really privileged that I got an opportunity to be in Ashasthan family & I just love my new family very much. I always wanted to call someone my father, my mother & God has given all this people in my life through Ashasthan family.

I am Sheetal, 16year old girl. I come from a Hindu background. My father left me & my mother when I was very small. my mother got into relationship with another guy, who seemed very kind to me he took a good care of me & when I turned 5years of age he put me into an hostel to study & to stay there because my mother never loved & she neither wanted me to be with her, I always craved for my mothers love which I never got from her. I stayed in that hostel for nearly 2 years time then I had to return back home due to some reason, then from that time onwards I stayed with my mother till I turned 15years.Then from the age of 15 I started working in one of the brothel owners home as a maid I would work for the whole day in his house & then in evening I would return back to my home just to find my mother sleeping with different men everyday,& on top of that she would also ask me to call all those men as my father. This kept on going as days passed by & there came a point where my mother actually started hating me a lot & she started spreading wrong things about to people around. She would tell people that live with many men. Along with that brothel owner they started blaming me for the things that I had never done. Once she had also put a garland on my photo saying that I am dead for her and all that. I really found my self very lonely in the midst of all this, there was no one that I could turn up for help, I was frustrated & thought that there was no hope left for me.

Then after some time my step father who had gone to Bangalore came back & saw my situation he too felt very bad about it. Then without informing anyone he along with his friend took me to a shelter home known as “Apne Aap”through which I got to know about “Navjeevan Ashathan”.At first I didn’t really wanted to come but my step father insisted me to come. And after coming to Ashasthan I actually understood what love is all about, here I found my new family where people really love me & care for me the way iam & I want to give all glory to God for what He has done, I surely know in my heart that this was all His doing. Now iam really happy to stay in Ashasthan,I’ve learned lots of thing like,reading,writing which I was unable to do before, but God & the people in Ashasthan has been a very good support for me. I desire to become a Computer Designer in future & I hope that this desire of mine will surely be accomplished by Gods grace & with the help & support of Ashasthan.