College and degree students photos 2017

 The inter college students  and degree college students of 2017 are grouped according to their homes of residence.

All of this years Inter-college students and Degree students were invited to Vizianagaram 

Thompson House, Prem Nivas and Karuna Nivas ctudents

DMC and Rainbow students
boys:
N Ramesh, Ch Samson, D Sateesh, R Sandeep, M Sanyasi Naidu, V Shanker, B Timothy and G Basker
girls:
A Sujata, D Snehà, K Vasavi, D Uma, Y Kalyani, J Venkatalaxmi, S Rani, Mounika, D Kumari, G Hemalatha, K Rani and A Priyanka

Thompson House and Karuna Nivas students

Prem Nivas Inter students and degree student Sravani
Sampath ( 1st yr) ashok (2nd yr) Satyavarthi (1st yr) Sravani (degree student)

Jhansi celebrated her birthday with her friends at Prem Nivas.

Off to BIG school!

These  lovely children  are starting at the Government High School in this new Academic Year. 

Why is that such a momentous event?

Because they are children from Prem Nivas - the first of Brighter Future's homes for infected HIV/AIDS children. They are not the first children to go to High School but looking at them today I can remember how each one of them has blossomed during their years at Prem Nivas and we thank God that they are still alive and relatively healthy. 

Some of them hve an aunty or a grandparent still living. Others were brought to us by a dying sibling or parent and have no living relations. with clean water, clean nutritious food, anti-retroviral medication and a huge dose of love, they have survived. They are treated as 'normal' children and encouraged to be kind and helpful, to study well and value education so that they may lead independent lives in the future.

We wish them well on this first step into the outside world.

He was beaten by his family...

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He went  to Karuna Nivas, where we have our community centre for people with HIV/AIDS. he was given emergency rations and our doctor gave him free medicines When the Director saw him he realised that his health condition was very serious. Nellayya was admitted to our Pickford Memorial Hospice for respite care.  With regular protein rich meals clean water and psychological counseling.  he has now become much stronger,

  Nellayya used to be a security guard and as the Shanti Nivas campus needs one he has been given the job.