SABERA Foundation

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Sabera Khatum was born in a small village near Calcutta, in a family from the rural areas. As many other families from the small villages in the countryside, her family went to the city with the aim of look for a better life. Without resources they had to live on the streets and survive begging and looking for food in the rubbish dumps.

But the destiny put Sabera, her sister and her mother in the way of Nacho Cano. Nacho was in 1999 recording a documentary for the NGO "El Compromiso" when he found Sabera. Nacho become so involved with the misery of them that he decided start to save children from the streets. The situation of Sabera looking for food in the rubbish dump made to Nacho to take the decision of offering her the possibility of a better life in Spain.

Sabera and her mother came to Madrid, her sister went to a shelter home in Calcutta. After a few months Sabera's mother decided to came back to India but Sabera took the decision of remain in Spain, and start a new life. It was her spirit and struggle to get out of poverty and misery which made Nacho to take the decision of set up a foundation with her name and help other girls to leave the streets.

Sabera started her new life in Madrid living in Nacho's house and attending classes in a European College very close to the house, where she is receiving the education and the skills to be the future manager of the foundation.

 

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The SABERA Foundation focuses its efforts on the social transformation of women in India. This is a long-term project that is working towards a change of values through INTEGRATION and EDUCATION.

The streets of Calcutta are teeming with children, either abandoned by their parents or forced to beg for money and food and in some cases, prostitute themselves.

The SABERA Foundation dedicates its resources to the creation of safe shelter, health care, nutrition and self-employment programs. All the funds for the implementation of every project come from private donations and sponsorships.

There are many organizations and individuals who choose to dedicate themselves to humanitarian work crossing all political, religious and ethnic boundaries and we would like to add our support, with the spirit of solidarity and humility which resides in our hearts, and help make the world a better place to live in.

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