Selvyn at Premavasam, an orphanage in India, signs in

Selvyn at Prema Vasam does his monthly report on the health and welfare of his special children...this is always an eye opener and keeps everything in some kind of perspective living and working here in the UK. Selvyn writes:

Dear David,

Lots of love and greetings from Prema Vasam!

In my previous mail I have written about our Diwali preparations to the extreme of expressing our anxiety to get new dresses for Diwali. Most of our children are Hindus hence we celebrate Diwali every year to make them happy and joyful.

This year on 17th of October we have celebrated Diwali, every year we buy new clothes for all our children and for our carers too. Some of our friends consider it as a duty to buy new clothes and fireworks for Diwali, this year also at the last moment we got new clothes for all our children we bought fireworks too. It is like a pleasant surprise indeed. Our boys from the boys home also came here to celebrate Diwali with us all, it was a great celebration indeed.

Our school going children got their quarterly marks. Our boys scored good marks than our girls. Three of our boys Prakash XI, Ramesh VIII and Pandian XII got first rank and two of our boys got second rank and Prasanth got third rank whereas none of our girls got first rank. These days our college going girls Anisha, Anitha, Benitta, Lakshmi, Kalaichelvi, Suganya and Radha are doing their semester examinations, it started on 30 of October would be over on 29th of November, please pray for them specially.

Our boys are very much interested in feeding the elders. The number of elders have been increasing so we have built an extension kitchen. On first of November being the birthday of our first child Indra we have started preparing the meals for the boys as well as for the elders on the week ends in the new kitchen. It is so convenient and very spacious too.

Thank God, we have one more new physiotherapist Mr.Sasikumar joined us on 4th of November onwards. He is so affectionate and has a special love for our special children. Now the number of therapists are seven but still all the special children will not get therapy everyday. Please pray for our special children so that we may afford to have more therapists for them.

With much love,
Selvyn.

Our best wishes go to Selvyn and his team at PV. At present we have three volunteers working with his team at the orphanage.