Mud Island
The Mud Island Children’s Home is located nearly 25 miles away from the city of Bombay and 500 miles away from Hyderabad. This home was visited for the first time in November 2005. The children live in a very poor slum area. You must get into an old fishing boat that will take you across a very small body of water to reach this island.
Yohanu and his wife Mariya are the Caretakers of the children in this home. They have four precious children. This Children’s Home started because of their love for the precious slum children on this small island. Yohanu began to take care of five children, who did not have any one to love or care for them. Like most of the other Children’s Homes, once he began to take care of a few children, many more children were brought to him. Yohanu could not turn these precious children away. Today, they have 14 girls they care for on a daily basis.