Simini, Wife to Victor Sister to Lincy Simini was raised in a Catholic family in Kerala, a state in southern India with the highest percentage of Christians in India. Her first language is Malayam, then Hindi, and then English. At the age of four, her father passed away, and a year later, she was sent to an orphanage with her older sister, Lincy. She stayed at the orphanage until age fourteen or fifteen, then returned home to care for her mother for three years. At the age of seventeen, Simini went to Bible College in Rajasthan. She left at age nineteen, and lived in a leper colony for the next two years, sharing the gospel with the outcasts of society. When Simini moved to West Bengal to assist a pastor, she left less than a year later after learning that this pastor used witchcraft and other pagan practices. For two years, she worked at a children’s home, then went to Puna in order to work with prostitutes, another orphanage, and children in the slums. Three years later, Simini felt called to minister to lepers again and went to Hydrabad to help her sister and brother-in-law learn the language of Andra Pradesh. While in Andra Pradesh, Simini, Lincy, and Lincy’s husband, V.V. Ullas, were in a terrible motorcycle accident. It had been raining and a truck hit them. They all woke up in the grass. Lincy’s teeth were knocked out. Simini’s cheekbones were broken in six places and she vomited blood repeatedly. V.V. looked fine, but his injury was the worst of all—a ruptured liver. He died before they reached the hospital. After a year of extensive surgery and recovery, Simini moved with Lincy and Lincy’s one-year-old daughter, Sandra, (who had been in a jeep during the accident and escaped injury), to Delhi to work in a children’s home. It was at this children’s home that Simini met and married her husband, Victor, who had been working at that orphanage for three years prior to their arrival. Two years later, in 2006, Simini, Victor, and Lincy moved from Delhi to Haryana to start Asha House, where she works as an assistant director and administrator.