Sanyasi meets his English sponsors
Sonia and Richard from Thurston, near Bury St Edmunds, combined a holiday on the miniature steam trains of India with a visit to see their sponsored child in Vizianagaram. They flew directly to Visakhapatnam from Delhi
They had chosen a hotel in Visag they were met at the airport by Victor’s son Richie and Sanyasi, the boy they have sponsored since 2007. and taken to their hotel.
The next morning Sonia and Richard came to meet Victor, and the children and staff of the Rainbow Boy’s Home and DMC House.
They had brought small gifts for the children and Richard, being a keen cricketer himself, also bought new cricket bats for the boys.
They had brought small gifts for the children and Richard, being a keen cricketer himself, also bought new cricket bats for the boys.
A cricket match between children from Prem Nivas and the Rainbow home was the main event of the day. Augmented by some of the staff. Richard captained the ‘England’ team and Richie, the Indian. Kingfisher’s v Superkings’ !
The Shanti Nivas kitchen and dining room opening function
Sonia and Richard met the Hospice Patients
Sonia and Richard met Sanyasi’s HIV widowed mother who breaks stones for 10 hours a day in a quarry to educate her two elder sons
Divali is coming
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Sparklers not banned in India!
Thanks to C for funding the evening!
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| New dances learned |
The Christmas Party;
All the children from our 5 homes come together a few days before Christmas for a special Party. This year we have 170 children to buy presents for, to make new clothes for, and to feed with a very special meal. We can’t do all the cooking ourselves so we hire outside caterers to help us. We hire chairs and tables for the guests and older children. Mary, the Director’s wife, will choose the material for the new dresses, Punjabi suits, shirts and trousers and we pay for them to be made up by our senior tailoring ladies. Mary, shops for presents for each child and staff and senior girls from the Rainbow homes wrap them and label them. The children make cards for their sponsors and donors and decorate their homes with tinsel, tissue paper and lights.
New Christmas hymns are learnt and dances put together for the evening concert. Groups of children organize skits and sketches, and a nativity play rounds off the evening.This year we are probably holding the party at Shanti Nivas,as it is now the only venue big enough to cope with the numbers. We will have to bus the children from the other homes, and that means bus fares, train fares, petrol and an extra driver.
We have had two donations so far to help with this cost of the Christmas party but are hoping that more of our supporters can help us
with the expenses!
Bundles Of Love. It is also the time of year when we give the residents of our adopted leprosy colony, Bapuji, individual presents. These are usually clothes, as they can’t afford to get new clothes themselves.
All the other 4 colonies we provide medical and social care to, expect cash towards their Christmas/New Year celebrations too!How did we do in October?
Children sponsored 0
St Marks extra £90
Kathryn and Mark £225
Chislehurst Churches £2000
Guy D Neeley £50
Bourne Baptist Church extra £50
Mrs T and Mrs F
Birthdays in November and December.
Rainbow and DMC House
Ch Jyothi 27.11.95, Bhasker R 15.11.96, Manohar A 27.11.04, Santosh D 27.11.2009, Rajasekar 13.11.09, SK Rani
8.12.02, Nandini 13.12.02, B Rani 18.12.04,Venkatalaxmi 20.12.98 ,
Prem Nivas
Chinna Rao 8.11.00 Chinnam Naidu 9.12.02 Nagamani 10.12.03, Ashok 31.12.97
