We are desperately seeking aid and assistance in finding sponsorship for the medical treatment of one of our orphan children. Isobel Guest (now 13) is in need of urgent spinal surgery before she becomes permanently disabled. We need your help in this...Needed: $15,000 | | | Raised: 65% |
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| Volunteering is becoming more and more popular all over the world. Over the last few weeks we have had lots of enquires from people wanting to volunteer at our orphanage. As a result we have now added an online Volunteer Application Form for our website. |
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We are currently trying to connect with other aid organizations, orphanages, orphan related non-profits, NGO’s and volunteering or charity groups within India. Our hope is that through unity with others who have similar goal (the care of orphan children) we can help each other to be more effective. |
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Welcome to our orphanage!
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 Welcome to the official website of our orphanage, The Good Shepherd Agricultural Mission. We are a farm based orphanage home for destitute children of North India and Nepal. The GSAM is located 350kms to the East of Delhi on the border of Nepal. There are approximately 100 orphan children on the mission. The GSAM is a fully non-profit orphanage run by the Shipway Family that relies on donations and support from volunteers and workers to keep changing the lives of hundreds of Indian children. For information on how you can volunteer or donate to our orphans / mission please take a look at the rest of our website. Volunteering information can be found in the volunteer section. |
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Our orphans...Please take some time to sit and browse through the rest of our website, we do our best to update it regularly. There is plenty of information to see that we hope will bring you closer to understanding us, our orphans, our goals and our dreams. If you are looking for volunteering information or volunteer work with our orphans please take a look at our visitors information section.  The Shipway Family |
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A little about us...The GSAM was started in 1948 in a remote jungle area of Northern India, on the border of Nepal. The "mission" is now surrounded by many villages and small towns. There are approximately 100 orphan children on the mission, ranging from newborn to young adults. Though it is partially self-supporting thanks to a 60 acre farm, the GSAM relies primarily on help from caring individuals to keep changing the lives of so many orphan children.
The mission is largely run on a communal basis with many of the staff working as volunteers, without pay but the mission helps to meet their needs by providing food and supplies. There are also workers who do work for a salary, though it is very minimal. The whole "family" consists of about 220 people. The mission loves to have volunteer workers to help out, more information can be found the in volunteering sections of our site.
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Over the last year we have been working in a large section of land (about 50 acres) which is located about 5km into the jungle from the mission. We took the land on contract from the Indian Government for 3 years and hope that the returns from the crops we are planting there will help in the construction of our new school. Currently we are in the middle of harvesting our mustard crop out there and soon the dhal (lentils) and wheat will be ready for harvest. Life for the workers out in the jungle is an exciting and dangerous one being frequently visited by wild elephants, tigers, leopards, boars, bears, snake and all manner of bugs! We have set up some small huts in the jungle which help to provide some shelter but would do very little against an angry elephant! The workers at the jungle plot are generally out there on shifts as someone needs to be awake 24 hrs a day to not only guard against dangerous animals but also anything that might seek to "eat our profits". Eugene our farm manager has been heading up this project. |
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