El Shaddai is a charitable trust engaged in rescuing the street children and working with an aim to offer a safe and secure environment for every helpless child. The trust has been registered in UK, Europe, Canada and India. It provides safe shelter and good medical facilities thus ensuring the healthy physical growth and emotionally balanced development of the child. The trust also helps the child in getting back the lost childhood through love and affection and by sharing the goodness of God. El Shaddai has branches at
Assagao,
Saligao and
Panaji, providing a home to the homeless and orphaned children. Visitors are allowed between 16:00 and 18:00 hrs.
Mapusa is on
National Highway 17 and 13 km south of state capital, Panaji. It forms a junction on the network of roadways covering the whole of North Goa District thus making the access easier. Goa Airport at
Dabolim is 40 km south of Mapusa.