This Man Rescued 35 Abandoned Girls From Trains, Forests & Became the Father They Never Had

December 9, 2004. Deep in a Jharkhand forest, Hare Ram Pandey found a newborn. Abandoned, covered in ants, barely breathing.

Doctors gave up. But Pandey didn’t. “She’s a gift from God. She will live,” he said. And she did. He named her Taapsee.

Then another. And another. Each time, Pandey said yes, with open arms and an unshakable heart.

A year later, another baby girl.

With his wife, he started Narayan Sewa Ashram in Deoghar, the only shelter for abandoned girls in a 200 km radius. Today, 35 girls call him Baba.

He has no stable income. Feeding and educating so many isn’t easy. But he has never said no.

Now, whenever police or hospitals find an abandoned child, they call Pandey.

Taapsee and Khushi, the first two he rescued, now dream of becoming doctors. To heal a world that once threw them away.

Hare Ram Pandey’s journey proves that being a parent is about love, grit, and the belief that every child deserves a future.

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This Man Rescued 35 Abandoned Girls From Trains, Forests & Became the Father They Never Had

By TBI Team 22 June 2025

December 9, 2004. Deep in a Jharkhand forest, Hare Ram Pandey found a newborn. Abandoned, covered in ants, barely breathing.

Doctors gave up. But Pandey didn’t. “She’s a gift from God. She will live,” he said. And she did. He named her Taapsee.

Then another. And another. Each time, Pandey said yes, with open arms and an unshakable heart.

He has no stable income. Feeding and educating so many isn’t easy. But he has never said no.

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