Early Saturday morning I met with a woman that totally blessed my life. The woman's name is Renuka and she organizes a mission within the Bangalore city slum that is focused to abandoned and neglected girls. She calls her work Bhagya which means another chance at life. As she explained, the BLR Slum is the 2nd largest slum in ASIA (note not just India, but all of Asia). I read that it holds nearly 350k people which would make it the size of Omaha. Within the slum, Renuka does two things. Through a room in her home, she provides education and life skill training to young people (teenagers) that have had to leave their schooling. Her desire is to provide them another chance (not second chance as we all need multiple chances to be free) to get out of the slum. Secondly, Renuka provides scholarship to private boarding schools for kids that are either orphaned or semi orphaned. Semi orphaned is a term where the mother has passed and the father has remarried. In that situation the kids of the first wife are abandoned. Her website is http://www.bhagya.org/
My blessing in all this was to spend time with this woman of mercy, and to be given favor by her. She has asked me to return this coming Saturday to speak to a group of young men. She has only recently begun to accept male students. She feels I can share with them the tools it takes to be a successful man and escape the slum into freedom and release. I am quite excited to be able to speak to these men
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