Meet Agatha Susheela Dias making orphan-destitute girls self-reliant

Located in Rajasthan from a small village known as Madar Ajmer, Agatha Sushila Dias is selflessly serving the needy community. He learned the English language and started his mission with the needy people of the Andheri slums. Later, he served the needy people in the villages of Madhya Pradesh and the slums of Bangalore through religious self-promotional conferences.

In the year 1996, he established an organization called Amach Ghar, popularly known as Uttan in Bhayandar. The Amach Ghar organization provides English medium education, residential, medical, recreational, food, and spiritual facilities to the girls in a homely environment till they become self-reliant.

In short, it works for the overall development of the orphaned-destitute girls in the residential home. Presently, 25 beneficiaries live at Aamch Ghar, which is owned by J.J. Act (Juvenile Justice Act) and also have an approval order from CWC (Child Welfare Committee) for the beneficiaries to live with Aamch Home.

Born on January 26, 1967, in the Madar area of Ajmer, Rajasthan, Agatha Sushila Dias's father, Late Armand Balu Singh, served in the Indian Army. And his mother Late Agnes Armand Singh was a housewife. His mother was known to serve and help the needy, whoever came to her door was always welcome. Sushila Dias's mother was an inspiration to her.

Sushila inherited these values from her parents and left home at the age of sixteen to serve the people and become a strong liberal campaigner. After serving people in remote villages of Madhya Pradesh and Bangalore for a decade, she along with a committed team of social workers, doctors and lawyers, started Amach Ghar on April 14, 1996, an organization that provides shelter to orphaned and underprivileged girls. His home is for

Currently, Aamch Ghar houses 25 girls, who receive all facilities, including education, food, medical aid, and spiritual facilities in a homely environment until they become self-sufficient. Notably, Aamch Ghar has so far helped more than 100 girls to come back to the mainstream of society. While some are being provided assistance for higher education, many of them have settled down after securing jobs in reputed multinational companies.

Amcha Ghar is an implemented NGO providing a residential home for orphaned and semi-orphaned girls from the streets of Mumbai. In the 1990s, Agatha Sushila Dias and her husband Anthony Dias worked as social workers on the streets of Mumbai. In 1995, she saved a girl from Mumbai street from sexual abuse, but no organization took her in because she was not an orphan. She realized that no home was meant for semi-orphaned girls or those living in vulnerable circumstances. 

Going through the sexual abuse case, the girl's mother told Dias that you work 8 hours a day and come back home in a safe environment, but what happens to these girls at night, who have no place to stay safe. Not a situation, the question startled him and Aamch Ghar was launched a year later. On April 14, 1996, at Uttan village in Bhayandar, Mr. and Mrs. Dias launched Aamch Ghar with a committed team of social workers, lawyers, doctors, and well-wishers. Starting with providing a home to three girls, it has grown into a place that is now home to 25 girls.

For many years Amach Ghar School provides education to around 500 students. He rehabilitated many girls for higher education, livelihood, and marriage. They are either married or have completed their higher studies like Civil Engineering, MBA, MA, Hotel Management, IATA, Computer Hardware, Fashion Designing, Interior Designing, Nursing, D.Ed studies, etc. 

Some of the beneficiaries are International Cruise Liner IT Department and Food and is engaged in beverage service. Some are working as government teachers, digital executives in corporate travel companies, receptionists in reputed pharmaceutical companies, accountants in automation companies, etc.

Aamch Ghar believes in providing the best quality English medium education at the grass root level of the backward society with the aim of empowering the weaker sections, which in turn helps in eradicating poverty, unemployment, child labor, etc. Thus, he started his own English Medium High School and Junior College of Arts, Commerce, and Science in the year 2002 and 2018 respectively, for the underprivileged children of Uttan and nearby villages.

Their main objective is to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor and promote the overall development of the students.

Aamch Ghar Group of Pre-Primary English Schools was established in the year 2014. Its main objective is to provide quality English medium education to the beneficiaries at their home. Amach Ghar has opened 5 pre-primary schools in the surrounding villages of Bhatia, Pali, Morwa, Murdha, and the main school complex. Where about 400 students take advantage of education.

'Healing Angels' an initiative of Amch Ghar, which was started in 2018.

The main objective of this project is to provide financial assistance to poor children (suffering from pediatrics) in those hospitals which are economically weak. Aamch Ghar started the project of 'Caring Angels' for senior citizens living below the poverty line living in a state of malnutrition, to provide them nutrition, clothing, medical aid, etc. These are the elders who have been neglected by their own children and grandchildren and left to live alone.

Aamch Ghar has taken an initiative to provide English medium education and nutrition to the needy Maharashtrian Hindu Warli community (tribal) children who loiter around during the day while their parents go about their daily labor at construction sites. go to work. These children live in unhygienic conditions, without proper food, clothing, and other basic necessities. Hence, the Amach Ghar provides them with nutrition, education, clothing, medical care, and other basic necessities.

MBMC Mayor- Jyotsna Hassanale and Deputy Mayor- Hasmukh Gehlot felicitated Agatha Sushila Dias for her achievement. 53-year-old Agatha Sushila Dias has found a place in the list of top 10 women entrepreneurs of India announced by the prestigious Forbes India magazine.

“When auspicious loyalty and passion are harmonized with talent, then the qualities of a person begin to speak in the smell of musk.” Rigveda