Three-days-old Ambika, who was abandoned at a carcass dump (called hadda roori in Punjabi) is the newest member of SGB Bal Ghar, an orphanage run by Swami Ganga Nand Bhuriwale International Foundation, at Dham Talwandi Khurd, on the outskirts of the city.
Three-days-old Ambika, who was abandoned at a carcass dump (called hadda roori in Punjabi) is the newest member of SGB Bal Ghar, an orphanage run by Swami Ganga Nand Bhuriwale International Foundation, at Dham Talwandi Khurd, on the outskirts of the city.
Ambika was abandoned at the carcass dump, a wandering ground for stray dogs, near Sardoolgarh in Mansa, after a few hours of her birth. When some villagers heard her crying, they rescued her and took her to the civil hospital in Mansa.
She has now reached SGB Bal Ghar that houses 50 children, eight of who are abandoned babies that reached here in the last two months alone. According to the NGO members, “The parents usually abandon these new-born children at garbage dumps, parks, fields, hospitals or other such places.”
While they may have been dumped by their own kin, the staff of Bal Ghar tries its best to ensure that these orphaned or abandoned children get all the required facilities they need.