Very inspirng : Mother of thousands of children honoured with Padmashri
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* Sindhutai Sapkal devoted her whole life to grooming the lives of orphans.
* Sindhutai was the mother of more than 1400 children and grandmother of more than a thousand.
It was during the experiences of poverty, abjection and homelessness that Sindhutai came across dozens of helpless orphans and women who were blatantly ignored by the society. She started adopting these orphans and worked and sometimes begged incessantly to feed them. To avoid partiality towards her biological daughter, Sindhutai sent her daughter to trust in Pune. After years of hard work, she raised her first Ashram at Chikaldara. She travelled across villages and cities to raise money for her Ashrams. Many a time she even had to fight for the next meal due to lack of funds. But Sindhutai never stopped. Till date, she has adopted and nurtured over 1200 orphaned children. They fondly call her ‘Maai’. Many of her adopted children are now lawyers and doctors. Now her biological daughter and the adopted children are running orphanages of their own
* Sindhutai is called 'Mother Teresa' of Maharashtra. She spent her whole life in the service of orphan children.
* She adopted and took care of about 1400 orphan children.
* For this noble work, he was also honored with many other awards including Padma Shri.
* The country's President Ram Nath Kovind tweeted that Sindhutai Sapkal's life was dedicated to courage, dedication and service
* Born in a poor family in Wardha, Maharashtra, Sindhutai had to face discrimination for a long time due to being a daughter.
* Sindhutai Sapkal's life started as a child who was not needed by anyone.
* Sindhutai's mother was against her going to school. Although his father wanted him to study.
* So when she was 12 years old, she was married. Her husband was 20 years older than her.
Even after being crushed and chained by the shackles of child marriage, young Sindhutai never lost hope. Instead her passion to the help the helpless and wronged aggravated. Settling in the Navargaon forest in Wardha after marriage, she strongly opposed the exploitation of village women, who collected cow dung, by the Forest department and the Landlords in 1972. Little did she knew, that her fight would change her life for the worse. During her pregnancy, a nasty rumor of infidelity was circulated by an angry landlord. This raised a rejection for her from the community. Even her husband abandoned her. Beaten, she gave birth to her daughter Mamta on 14th October 1973 in a cowshed. Sindhutai went back to her maternal home, but there too she faced an unapologetic rejection from her mother. Feeling lost and betrayed, Sindhutai started singing and begging in trains and on the streets just to make ends meet. She continued to fight for herself and her daughter’s existence and made train stations, cowsheds and cemeteries her home.
In this constant tussle to survive, she found herself in Chikaldara, situated in the Amravati district of Maharashtra. Here, due to a tiger preservation project, 84 tribal villages were evacuated. Amidst the confusion, a project officer impounded 132 cows of Adivasi villagers and one of the cows died. Sindhutai decided to fight for a proper rehabilitation of the helpless tribal villagers. Her efforts were acknowledged by the Minister of Forests and he made appropriate arrangements for alternative relocation.
It was during these experiences of poverty, abjection and homelessness that Sindhutai came across dozens of helpless orphans and women who were blatantly ignored by the society. She started adopting these orphans and worked and sometimes begged incessantly to feed them. To avoid partiality towards her biological daughter, Sindhutai sent her daughter to trust in Pune. After years of hard work, she raised her first Ashram at Chikaldara. She travelled across villages and cities to raise money for her Ashrams. Many a time she even had to fight for the next meal due to lack of funds. But Sindhutai never stopped. Till date, she has adopted and nurtured over 1200 orphaned children. They fondly call her ‘Maai’. Many of her adopted children are now lawyers and doctors. Now her biological daughter and the adopted children are running orphanages of their own.
Sindhutai Sapkal has received around 750 awards from various national and international organizations. A Marathi film “Mee Sindhutai Sapkal” was also released as her life story in 2010. She has founded numerous organizations across Maharashtra which provide education and shelter to thousands of orphans. Even today, at the age of 67, Sindhutai Sapkal works relentlessly to shape the future of these orphans because she believes that a deprived child means a deprived nation.
* Sindhutai Sapkal, famous social worker and Padma Shri awardee, has passed away on January 04, 2022. He was 75 years old.
* Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed grief over the death of Sindhutai and expressed condolences to his family members.
* Sindhutai Sapkal was born on 14 November 1948 in Wardha district of Maharashtra. In childhood, people used to call him 'Chindi'.
* Sindhutai was awarded the Padma Shri award in 2021. Apart from this, he was honored with more than 750 awards. He always spent the prize money in orphanages.
* Sindhutai adopted more than 1400 children in her life.
* Sindhutai's family is very big. He has 207 Jamai, 36 daughters-in-law and more than 1000 grandchildren.
* Let us tell you that plenty of social
organizations run in his name which help orphan children.
* A film has been made on the life of Sindhutai in Marathi in 2010.
She even begged on the streets to feed the orphans.
* On receiving the Padma Shri award, Sindhutai said that this award belongs to my colleagues and my children. She appealed to the people to adopt orphan children.
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