Friday 11 September 2009

Selwyn in India reports back

Selwyn at one of our orphanages in Chennai, India likes to keep me updated about the children in his care. There is always plenty to ponder in his diary. He writes:
Dear David Gill,

Lots of love and greetings from Prema Vasam!

Today we have appointed one more physiotherapist, Miss Mercy to give therapy for our special children. Since the number of special children are more, sometimes some of the special children do not get the professional touch of the therapist.

Though we say proudly that we wish to serve special children more affectionately than school going normal children but the number of school going children are more in Prema Vasam. Of course the school going children too deserve our love and concern. Hence we try our best to develop the talents that dormant in them. Having that in mind we try to teach Karate, classical dance called Bharathanatyam, playing drums and so on. Last week some of our children took part in a karate tournament, Vasanth got gold medal in his age group, Arun and Sathish got silver medal in their age group, Manikandan and Hemalatha got bronze medal in their age group.

These days our Soundarya is not keeping well, please remember her during the moments of grace.

Our school going children got their progress report for the first mid term test, some of them have scored good marks and the rest of them have to concentrate more on their studies. We are so happy that Punith got First Rank in the class. And our college going girls got their semester results too. Anisha and Suganya have passed in all the subjects, whereas the rest of them have failed in one or two subjects, it is so sad and disappointing. Of course it is so soothing that our college going girls are serving our special children and teaching our school going children, they contribute so much for the well being of our children.
Dr.Roshan and his colleagues from Meenakshi dental college have come forward to give dental care for our children, to begin with every Thursday they take some of our children to their hospital for the dental care.

With much love,
Selvyn.
We hope that Soundarya makes a quick and full recovery.

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