St Catherine of Siena School and Orphanage, Mumbai, India

From the year 2003 & 2015 onwards M/s. Sunshinekids intl and M/s. Hamburg Sud India Pvt Ltd started supporting the school funding. This support is very crucial since the school does not get government or religious funding for the beneficiaries in the school ie  orphans, street children and children from the nearby slums. It is often observed that the children who seek admission in our School have missed 1) early childhood education 2) stimulation and responsive care of both Father and/or Mother 3) Learning material at home 4) Playing material at home 5) adequate supervision to name a few. EDUCATION..BRINGING MORE SHINE TO LIFE…. Background Children who live on the street and in slums are deprived and have no safe access to school system making them vulnerable to substandard living. They fall victim to the survival street system and fruits of education are beyond their reach. When survival is the key word, activities related to it become ...

Begun as an open air school under the tree shades, the story of St Catherine of Siena School and its founder Father Anthony Elenjimittam is inseparable and unconditional to children who were destitute and orphans in transforming them as God's Children and dutiful citizen of our country. THE CALL "Then Gandhiji--Bapuji, Father as we all lovingly called him--with a sigh turned to me and said: "Now, Anthony, I want you to devote your life to break barriers and build bridges between religions and teach with your life and words that religion essentially consists in Love of God and Mankind.  Charity is the root of religion' as Tulsidas says, 'and abandon not charity as long as there is breath in your nostrils'. You are too much of an intellectual; but religion is what St Paul called 'the fragrance of Christ'. That is Charity". (Mahatma Gandhi--Father of our Nation--to Father Anthony Elenjimittam on 24th December 1946) THE INTENT "...