El Shaddai Child Rescue El Shaddai Street Child Rescue, Matthew Kurian, Pastor Matthew Kurian, ChildRescue.net, Street Child Rescue, El Shaddai Street Child REscue Deceitful, Irresponsible, Dishonest, Cheating, Personal Interest Assagoa Goa
We have been volunteering for a couple of months and these reports are very true and less harsh than reality! In reality, money being spent is probably 70% for personal use, no joke. We have worked in the office and talked to the accountants and employees, here are some examples:
1. Recent Christmas Eve event was very expensive and had no El Shaddai Kids there
2. They do use the money for the church which specifically expressed that this is not a church for the El Shaddai Kids
3. Spent lots of money on GoaMarathon which from looking at the books, it has very little or none impact for El Shaddai
4. Spent lots of money on Global Leadership Summit in Panjim
5. Employees work for the church AND THE CHARITY! The church is called Faith Community Church and it's not involved with the kids in El Shaddai.
6. There is no accountability with purchases with Pastor Matthew. Every beginning of the year he spends lots of money on painting the office, remodelling the office, etc. He doesn't get multiple quotes or ask for advice even on areas he's not familiar with such as internet providers and hosting. He has paid for 6 hosting companies at once, paid for a mobile app that does not work and quite expensive for the type of quality, etc.
In short, Pastor Matthew Kurian runs El Shaddai and is doing a very poor job at it. He shows up when he wants to, never takes the blame, makes hasty decisions and makes excuses. Be careful on donating or spending your time at El Shaddai Street Child Rescue. There are many orphanages here in Goa you can go to.
One final note to show the heart of Pastor Matthew Kurian. When volunteers come, they pay a huge sum of 900 pounds just to volunteer. That money is suppose to be used to support them and cover their costs. This volunteer fee is incredibly high and have heard people say in the office we need volunteers to make money (hear this a lot from his wife!). That's a poor business plan and a charity should not have to make money off of it's volunteers!
Please let us know your stories as we are setting up a legal investigation.
3 Updates & Rebuttals
Spurdle
Pontypool ,Alabama,
United Kingdom
Not in my experience!
#4General Comment
Thu, April 02, 2015
Let me begin by stating that I have long term experience of working with El Shaddai, having volunteered for the past ten years.
I have experience of working in all of the charity's homes, shelters and community ventures so my comments are based on facts and are well founded. I am also well acquainted with Pastor and Mrs Kurian and many other members of staff.
The work that El Shaddai has done, under the leadership and inspiration of Mr Kurian, is absolutely second to none. The homes are available for visits and any visitor will immediately be struck by the efficacy of the care that has been given and by the life changing nature of the charity's achievements.
In the 10 years I've been volunteering, I have never been asked for a penny since I provide my own accommodation and subsistence and I have been granted full access to all homes and shelters within proper limitations for child protection.
In never fails to amaze me that, no matter how beneficial a charity may be and no matter how great its achievements, there are always those who will choose to make adverse comments and seek to damage its reputation.
It should be remembered, however, that those who set up and work in the charity sector have as much right to earn a living as the next man or woman. Mr Kurian's life style is by no means overly affluent, his charity is regulated by Indian legal requirements as well as UK Charity legislation. Much fund raising is undertaken in the UK and a watchful eye is kept on procedures in India in order to ensure that British donations are used properly.
I have experience of money being donated for a new school roof on a different continent and entirely unconnected to El Shaddai. When the donor visited she found the school still roofless but the Headteacher's home sported a brand new roof. Anyone visiting El Shaddai will find (by local standards) comfortable homes and shelters, thousands of happy kids who are well looked after and protected plus plenty of other evidence that money collected in India, The UK and elsewhere has been used to excellent effect.
Internet trolls will always huff and puff but in this case at least the proof of the pudding is in the eating and thousands of children can provide evidence that El Shaddai is providing excellent value for money.
matthew
asagao,Georgia,
Don't throw stones in Begging bowl
#4REBUTTAL Owner of company
Mon, September 22, 2014
Matthew Kurian
matthew
asagao,Georgia,
blatant lies
#4REBUTTAL Owner of company
Tue, August 19, 2014
this report of elshaddai is a blatant lie, we never had a volunteer with this name or from this area of America, we had one coupe came to vounteer from some other area but they were so inefficient and useless we had to sack them from volunteering
elshaddai is a very reputed charity in Goa, we had won national awards for child welfare, we get govt funding our accounts are audited by state and central goverments
i am a pastor and we have totally saparate accounts for church and charity. this charity is born out of church but it is complately inpendant with a set trustees from diferent religious back ground
it is such a sad thing to see how people can just accuse you for nothing with baseless allegations
we dont even know who this joker is
we are a charity purely depending of peoples goodwill, it is a shame that you are spoiling the name of the charity,
our books are open for anyoone to view, incase anyone has a concern about the way we run the charity,we welcome you to come and discuss with any of us.
i am on the board of charity but i am not running the charity alone, we have 150 employees and hundreds of children had come out through this charity successfully, we have an elshaddai alumni
it is very wrong to wrong these kind of baseless allgations
its more like throwing muck in the begging bowl, by doing this you are shutting the door of oppertunity for some poor children in india, its very bad, you will have pay in the court of Gods justice
even this year we have started two more children homes and given admission for another 130 children
i hope ripoffreport will take some action against these evil malicious guys
we are open for anyone to visit and ask questions we have nothing to hide, we are a very transparent organisation