Help a mother get back to her children

Dearest blog readers,
Madhu, one of the ladies who works in our sewing centre has fallen sick with a mystery virus. She has been in hospital for 3 days on a drip and cannot eat anything. As you can perhaps see from the photo, she is already very thin and emaciated. She works hard 6 days a week and also looks after her 3 children who all attend Sandipani Muni School so she is constantly under stress and her immune system is very weak.

Madhu is a single mother. She has 3 children and, a few years ago, her husband walked out on them.

At this time she came to Food For Life begging for a job. We supported her to do a vocational training course and, after 8 months she passed the exam and became a tailor. She was at the top of her class and chose to keep working for FFLV, making uniforms for the children at Sandipani Muni school.

Madhu's 3 children.

In most affordable hospitals in India, in order for a patient to be admitted, they have to be accompanied by someone who will provide their food and basic needs. Usually a relative does this but Madhu has no relatives in Vrindavan so we have arranged an attendant to care for her while she is in hospital.

Madhu does not have any relatives or neighbours who can look after her children so Food For Life has arranged accommodation for them.

None of this could have been done without the support of our blog readers. For her treatment so far we have been digging into the emergency fund for her treatment, but we need to your support in order pay for her full treatment and move on quickly to the next case (already waiting). We are also getting behind because were still trying to raise $100 that we spent for Gurupal, when this case came up.

Doctors say that Madhu needs to be in hospital for another two weeks to recover properly, and this will cost:

Rs 2500 (US$59) to pay for an attendant to stay with her and bring her food.

Rs 3000 (US$71) to fund her children's care.

Rs 10 000 (US$238) for hospital charges (the doctors assure us that since we are funding her treatment from Food For Life as a charity case, they will not charge more than this)

Rs 4500 (US$108) for medicines.

Rs1500 (US$36) for special food and fruit that her attendant will buy for her to help her make a speedy recovery.

(Plus the Rs 4200 (US$100) that we are still waiting on for Gurupal)

So in total we need your help for Rs25,000 (US$612)

Please let me know what you can do to help. Rupa@fflvrindavan.org