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Specially disturbing is the portrayal of the society and families to which the "poor", the "semi-orphan" (?) girls belong as characterized by "pitiable conditions" and the likelihood of being stalked by sexually predatory and "abusive relatives".
While the families of the "semi-orphan girls" - and implicitly the larger social milieu to which such families belong - have thus been painted as unfit to take care of, and dangerous for, the well being of their own children, 'Amcha Ghar' and its promoters have been portrayed as angels who "rescue" the poor kids and provide them with "English-medium education, residences, medical attention, recreation and spiritual facilities".
So the society and their own families are as perilous as a jungle full of predatory animals for the "poor girls", but Agatha and Anthony Dias' income tax-exempted 'home' at Bhayander (West) is an oasis of virtue and kindness and "spiritual facilities".
Depicted as dens of poverty and vice, their own homes are, of course, not "the mainstream of society". Dias' ISO-accredited 'home', on the other hand, will deliver the "semi-orphan" girls straight into "the mainstream of society"!
What perverse thinking!
The writer describes this twisted mentality as a process of "rehabilitation" that 'Amcha Ghar' has already put "nearly 80 girls" to, including by arrogating to itself the privilege of getting some of the unfortunate ones married.
It would presumably have been morally untenable for the angelic Dias' to grant the "abusive relatives" the right to get their own children married.
The readers should now have a clearer idea as to why Dias' would have required "a committed team" of "attorneys" (among others) in setting up their 'Amcha Ghar' in "a distant suburb of Mumbai".
By the way, Dias' also provide really professional service to the potential donors.
If the carefully choreographed photo at the top of this 'article' doesn't inspire you enough to loosen your purse-strings, they can always arrange, "for a nominal fee", a well-arranged, guided tour of their oasis of virtue and kindness and "spiritual facilities".
Go and "experience a day in the life of a former street child" and think how Dias' and their "team of supportive, like-minded, committed people" are "rescuing" children from a dangerous place called society.