Impressions on the Visitation in Delhi, Holy Cross Social Service Centre Dheerpur as well as in Mukherjee Nagar by Sr. Dorothee Halbach.
The Children’s Home in Dheerpur is a Home for abandoned and destitute children. At present there are 45 children. With great love and care, the sisters strive to place the children in good families through legal adoption. They also restore lost children to parents.
This house with the sisters’ community is an important reference point for many adoptive families. Throughout the year many adoptive families and benefactors visit this home. Several people have become sponsors of the orphanage and support the children financially. With the help of adoption agencies in Italy and in the United States 35 poor children who cannot afford to go to school are provided with a good education.
A second important apostolate is taking care of the many poor people who come with different concerns to the sisters such as help for medical treatment, repairing their homes, providing food and clothing etc.
The 2nd Community at Mukherjee Nagar, is only a few kilometres away from Dheerpur.
The community at Mukherjee Nagar was founded in 1980 to provide the orphaned and abandoned children a home and to give them a future in a new family.
Since 2006, there is a crèche and a day care centre for children from poor families, so that the mothers can go out for work during the day. The collaboration in the parish, religion classes for the children and family visits are an integral part of the mission in everyday life of the sisters.
