Pingalwara

Pingalwara means a home for the disabled, handicapped or crippled. The residents of Pingalwara in addition to being disabled, handicapped and crippled people, also include persons suffering from incurable and terminal diseases, old people, young and healthy males, females and children. Almost all the residents are destitute and most of them are going to spend their entire life in Pingalwara. The concept of Pingalwara started forming in Bhagatji’s mind when the Almighty entrusted him with the care of an abandoned spastic child in front of Gurdwara Dehra Sahib (in Lahore, Pakistan) in 1934. For 14 long years, Bhagatji carried the child on his back as the child was completely helpless and there was no one else to look after him.