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 INSPIRING    STORY   OF   ONE   INDIAN   IRON   LADY   HOPE  TO  GET   ATTENTION  OF   CSR   CORPORATES   AND  DONORS   IN  INDIA  &  ABROAD :- 

Senior Citizens Club , Dream Aakruti , Kale Padal , Hadapsar , Pune .

PUNE DATED :- Monday , October 5, 2015

Dear Friends ,

We A Members of Senior Citizens Club , Dream Aakruti , AT Kale Padal , Hadapsar , Pune are delighted to inform You About Contribution of Rs 5001/- made by us for Noble Cause to One Charitable Organization Name “ SANMATI BAL NIKETAN “ whose details are given below just for information :-

The Above named Organization is Established by One Iron Lady  Smt  Sindhutai  Sapkal .

EARLY DAYS WORK :-

Sou. Sindhutai Sapkal also known as Mother of Orphans is an Indian social worker and social activist known particularly for her work for raising orphan children.

At the age of 10, she got married to Shrihari Sapkal alias Harbaji, a 30-year-old cowherd from Navargaon village in Wardha District. She bore 3 sons by the time she turned 20. She put up a successful agitation against a local strongman who was fleecing the villagers on collection of dried cow dung used as fuel in India and selling it in collusion with forest department, without paying anything to the villagers. Her agitation brought the district collector to her village and on realizing she was right, he passed an order which the strongman did not like. Stung by the insult at the hands of a poor woman, he managed to convince her husband to abandon her when she was beyond 9 months of her pregnancy. She gave birth to a baby girl on 14 October 1973 in a cow shelter outside their house that night ,all by herself and walked few kilometers away to her mother's place, who refused to shelter her. She had to set aside the thought of suicide and started begging on railway platforms for food. In the process, she realized that there are so many children abandoned by their parents and she adopted them as her own and started begging even more vigorously to feed them. She decided to become a mother to anyone and everyone who came across to her as an orphan. She later donated her biological child to the trust Shrimant Dagdu Sheth Halwai, Pune, only to eliminate the feeling of partiality between her daughter and the adopted ones.

LATER WORK :-

She has devoted her entire life for orphan. As a result she is fondly called 'Mai'(mother). She has nurtured over 1050 orphaned children. As of today, she has a grand family of 207 son-in-laws, 36 daughter-in-laws and over 1000 grandchildren. She still continues to fight for the next meal. Many of the children whom she adopted are well-educated lawyers and doctors, and some, including her biological daughter, are running their own independent orphanages. One of her children is doing a PhD on her life. She has been honoured  with over 273 awards for her dedication and work. She used award money to buy land to make a home for her children. Construction has started and she is still looking for more help from the world. Sanmati Bal Niketan is being built in Manjari locality at Hadapsar, Pune where over 300 children will reside.

At the age of 80, her husband came back to her apologetically. She accepted him as her child stating she is only a mother now! If you visit her ashram, she proudly and very affectionately introduces him as her oldest child! In person, she comes across as an unlimited source of energy and very powerful inspiration, with absolutely no negative emotions or blaming anybody.

A marathi  film  'Mee Sindhutai Sapkal'  released in 2010, is a biopic inspired by the true story of Sindhutai Sapkal. The film was selected for world premiere at the 54th London Film Festival. Sindhutai  fought for the rehabilitation of the 84 villages.

TRULY YOURS ,

BY Members of Senior Citizens Club , Dream Aakruti , AT Kale Padal , Hadapsar , Pune .