1480: Serving the Poorest of the Poor in Vrindavan
Wisdom of the Sages
David Ramella
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🗓️ 1 December 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Kaustubha interviews Ineke Zondag, a leader at Food For Life Vrindavan, which is a favorite Non-profit Organization of his and Raghunath's, which provides free education, skill training, meals and medical help to over 1500 girls in Vrindavan, India.
Find more info at https://fflv.org
Reach out to Ineke at ineke@fflv.org
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| 0:32.6 | Because we had to find a way as well to communicate with these parents. They were all illiterate. |
| 0:38.4 | They were pretty intimidated to go to a school. |
| 0:41.5 | They've never been in a school. |
| 0:43.4 | Then there was these foreigners that drive the schools or the project. |
| 0:48.5 | It took us a while that we found a language. |
| 0:52.5 | And it's not that you can like in the West. you can write a note and send, oh, you know, |
| 0:56.5 | give this to your father or your mother. |
| 0:58.5 | They couldn't read or write. |
| 0:59.9 | It, you know, it took us a while. |
| 1:02.8 | And we needed to make them part of it because they were our biggest obstacle in the beginning |
| 1:08.3 | to convince them that this was an investment for a better |
| 1:12.7 | future for your child, but also potentially for them. But as I said, their vision is so short, |
| 1:19.1 | the time is so short because I don't know if I live in three weeks or in three years. I have to |
| 1:26.6 | survive today. So that is a language that we found |
| 1:30.2 | over time. But these are all these hurdles that you take constantly. So Rupa was there full |
| 1:37.3 | time for 30 years and every day, every time there was a problem, there was a solution for it. |
| 1:43.0 | Or we added another program. And that is |
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