It’s a social project in India that supports widows living in proverty and homelessness.
For the LORD your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, the
great, mighty and terrible God…
Who does justice to the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him bread and clothing.
Deuteronomy: 10:18
Ten percent of India’s female population, totaling forty million, are widows. Hindu widows face a series of social taboos. Traditionally, when a man dies, his wife is expected to renounce the “pleasures of life”.
Widows are not allowed to decorate themselves and must wear a white sari for the rest of their life. for the rest of her life. When their husbands die,
they break their bracelets and no longer wear jewelry or sindhoor (the red powder that women wear at parties and on top of their heads to show their married status).
Widows are sometimes called “pram” (“creature”), because only the presence of their husbands gives them presence of their husbands gives them human status. In some languages, a widow is referred to as a “thing” and not as a person. In others, the name is dubious, with little difference from the word prostitute.
To top it all off, a widow was considered cursed and could not be present at rituals and celebrations that were part of life in India, such as a wedding or a birth celebration. In some cases, even their shadow was considered pollution or an offense to “clean” members of society. There are reports of widows being beaten in their villages because someone has died, because for them, the widow’s presence in the village was the cause of that person’s death, considering that she, the widow, is seen as a “curse”.
Traditionally, in West Bengal, a state here in India, the treatment of widows has been very cruel, especially when the family has a tradition of child marriage in the region. Copying the myth that the god Shiva married Parvati when she was only eight years old, girls are married off at the same age, staying with their parents until they reach puberty. It was common for these girls to be widowed as children, and to face restrictions. If their husbands’ relatives didn’t want them, they had to stay at their parents’ house doing domestic chores, or they could be sent to “widow towns” such as Varanasi or Vrindavan.
These cities still attract widows. They are full of filthy hostels and places of prayer where malnourished and abandoned widows will try to drag out an existence until they die. Sexual abuse of young widows is common in these places. It is also common for old women to stand near the temples in busy streets begging.
In Vidravan, known as the “city of widows”, there are currently around 10,000 widows living on the streets, living a miserable life and most waiting for death as a great relief from their suffering.
At the time Jesus was here as a man, there was also a lot of prejudice, especially towards widows. At that time, only men had the right to religious education. Jesus broke with all this terrible tradition, when he talked to the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well, he scandalized even his disciples, because it was not common for a Jew to talk to a strange woman, Jesus also had disciples who followed him faithfully serving him, and something that was always strong in Jesus’ heart, COMPASSION, He stopped a funeral, first He gave a word of consolation to that widow, then he resurrected her only son and gave hope back to that woman….. I know that God is calling us to do as Jesus did, calling us to resurrect the hope of these Indian widows, Join us in this cry, let’s do something about it?!….
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