Selvyn at Prema Vasam in India provides an update

Selwyn, one of our hosts at his orphanage in Southern India, provides an update. He writes:

'Dear David,

Lots of love and greetings from Prema Vasam!

We have so many things to write to you, celebrated Christmas and New Year. Later we celebrated Pongal too. Now it is the time to concentrate more towards studies and other activities.

Our first child Indra has passed in distinction in the fifth semester of MCA studies, these days she is busy in preparing the project for the completion of the course, as it is we are always proud of her. Indra is incharge for the free tuition centre, nearly 120 poor children are getting benefitted. Indra teaches and coaches the 10th standard students, last year one of her students Leelavathy got 452/500 marks, Indra gave a nice gift (watch) to Leelavathy on the annual day.

One of our college going girls Miss Benitta has donated blood last month happily. Benitta is doing final year of her college, please pray for the success of her studies and for her future. Miss Soni who is doing B.Sc Nursing got a price for the essay competition at the national level in the “Competition Success” magazine.
Our college going girls got their fifth semester results too. Anisha, Anitha, Kalaichelvi, Suganya have got first class whereas Benitta has passed in second class. Unfortunately Lakshmi and Radha has failed in the fifth semester, both of them are so upset and sad. Of course all our college going girls do so much work in looking after our special children, they are very supportive and helpful.

On 4th February our boys home was inaugurated by Sonia Bonfiglioli, the director of Bonfiglioli groups. She is so happy to support and promised to help us in the coming days for our children.

Couple of our college going girls Radha and Benitta have got trophies for the college tournament and we are so proud that Radha got champion of champions trophy in her college.

Today one of our children Prema is celebrating her 14th birthday, please pray for her.

We are desperately trying our best to get a piece of land to extend our service to many more physically and mentally challenged and less fortunate children. Sometimes we are discouraged and disappointed while we approach the government officers for the same. Please remember our children and this special intention during the moments of grace. I am extremely sorry for this long silence in not keeping touch with you.

With much love,
Selvyn'

We wish Selwyn and his team good luck with their new projects. I will keep you updated.

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.

Slumdog Millionaire boosts Tourism...lets see a volunteering boost too

USAToday report that Slumdog Millionaire has boosted tourism to Mumbai.

http://tinyurl.com/c3p4q6

It's good that it has raised awareness of the plight of orphans and street kids, but now is the time to get involved, volunteer and help out, not just be a spectator.

You can help empower some of these children that have very little and put smiles on their faces during a 3-6 month placement with us. Find out more on our website or Facebook page.

http://www.changingworlds.co.uk/default.aspx?qlink=india