Bethany Karunalaya:
A home for the Last, Least, and the Lost
“As you did this for one of the least important of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it for me” (Mathew 25:40)
"Therefore be merciful, even as your Father also merciful". (Luke.6:36)
"The one who despises his neighbor sins, but whoever shows kindness to the poor will be happy".(Proverbs. 14:21)
In India, at least 35 million children aged 6 - 14 years do not attend school. Many children are still vulnerable in India under challenging conditions due to a lack of access to education, shelter, food, socialization, and integration in the communities. As per the official statistics, today, poverty kills one child every 3 seconds. Children are the main targets of poverty, and poverty is the primary cause of abuses relating to Children’s Rights.
According to reliable sources, thousands of children are orphans in the state of Telangana itself. In the year 2005, Bethany Fathers started an orphan project called Bethany Karunalaya Shelter Home and later St. Joseph Bethany Navajeevan Vidyalaya, at Telangana to fulfill the dream of ignored children in the state to have shelter and basic education and to make them self-reliant.
Responding to this grave scenario, Bethany Karunalaya shelters around 50 orphan children, and St. Joseph Bethany Navajeevan Vidyalaya offers the best quality free education to orphan children and affordable education to other local poor students. Bethany karunalaya is a place of love that receives homeless children who are considered family members disregarding their caste and creed. Upholding the vision, mission, and motto this institution rehabilitates orphan children and provides them with food, shelter, and proper education.
Bethany Karunalaya at Cherlapally, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India is a registered charitable institution managed by Bethany Mission Center (Reg. No: 321/2005) of the Bethany Navajeevan Province of the Bethany Ashram Congregation. Fr. Siju Mathew OIC is the present director and Fr. Shaiju Mathew OIC is the Assistant director of the institution. Sisters from the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Zeal help in the running of the institution along with other staff.