Lives changed through our busy new centre.

NEWS FOR MARCH 2016

Firstly and BIG hello from Doug and Rowena. We hope this finds you well.

We continue to invest much time into the charity work in Kotdwara, India and receive great reward and satisfaction from knowing that people's lives are being changed in small and large ways - all incredibly significant no matter what. The construction of the new website continues to be a task we work hard on, but every day it is getting closer and we hope to launch it over the coming days.

We want to personally thank the many people who have made recent donations. I hope you can see that we put great care and thought into ensuring that your money is used wisely and makes a significant difference. Also, your prayers and words of encouragement spur us on...this truly is a team effort.

Our friend Amit has personally written this month's Newsletter. I am sure that you will enjoy reading it and be moved by what Amit writes. Gotta say, I love his spelling - totally awesome :-)

Have a great month and God bless! Love Doug and Rowe, Roxy, Maisy and Gulliver X

*Dear brother Doug and all the loving partners from Australia.We all extend our heartiest thanks for your prayers and support. It is because of your prayers and Finencial support of each month. Now 170 poor and needy children is blessed your support through our projects in different ways. They are getting (1) Proper food, (2) Education, (3) Health care. Belive us all these children were rag pickers, engaged in child labour, Bagging, and we're from such a poor and secluded community that they had no hope. But with our combined effort, now they have every hope for a purposeful and meaningful life.PART - A..... You are will be so happy to know that we were able to hire a 3 rooms house for the purpose of office, New center of poor children, computer class for poor girls, sowing train center, rescue kids and girls by the police from th treffikers, meetings etc. From this month we need 5000 rupee per month for its rent.We are planning to open a computer training center for poor girls above 13 years from April 2016. This vision in our 5 year planning for this year. We are starting our new center for poor kids from 1st April 2016 and we had already registered 30 children. Most of these children are orphans or having single parent and their relatives are look after them in very bad conditon. Most of the kids are not able to go to the school so we have planned to start the center after a survey. We found that some of the children are suffering from various kind of diseases and are unable to treat as medicines. We will be focusing on (1) skill development (2) Health care of these children with your support. WE WILL BE IN NEED OF FOLLOWING : 1: Teacher for this new center - 2500/- ($25 Australian a month)2: Six chair three table - 5000/- ($10)3: Three fans - 4500/- ($9)4: Mats and stationary - 3000/- ($6)*

*PART - B.....Dear one's this 3 rooms building will serve us as our CENTRAL OFFICE.We are planning to run a computer Center too from this month for poor girls of 13 years and above from poor and secluded community's. For this purpose we will be in need of some computers and other equipments as per need..In our area position and conditions of girls is not at all good. They face a lot of problems. Parent from poor family do not educate girl child and due to illiteracy they take girls as a burden on them and their families. This gives rise to many socially evils. (1) Child Marriage (2) Child Labour (3) Girls treffikin . Even some parents are sell their girl child for money and throwing them into the hell of prostitution in our area. The helth condition also not good in our town area Like (1) Malnutrition (2) Anaemia (3) osteoporosis (4) Depression (5) Drug Addiction. We are working for such girls and women who are not able to take good education and training. More Over some girls who are engaged forcealy in to prostitution. So we need your prayer and Finencial support to empower this section of poor girls to develop a skill to earn their living hood and stand on their own. We request you all to visit our work in India with our brother Doug. Your regular support had brought a change in lives of many and will bring hope and change many more. You all are standing for a noble couse and God recognise it. God will return many folds to you as you are helping God's unfortunate children. We also pray for each one of you and your family. May God bless you all with his divine grace and heppiness. May you all lead a life of fulfilment and satisfaction. Please continue to think and support this work in India. Your Sincerely Amit & DaisySamuel............*

Tigers, A Pop Up Medical Centre and a Community Award

February was a big month for our charity in Kotdwara, especially for our friends Amit and Daisy Samuel and their team. 

A tiger recently ran from the jungle and through the streets of Kotdwara exciting the locals. The video is pretty cool! It really is wild and primitive where we work. 

The most exciting news for this month, has been the opportunity of our work expanding further in the heart of Kotdwara town, by renting an upstairs apartment for just $25 a week. This building has a kitchen, toilets, and three large meeting rooms. In this space, Amit and Daisy have conducted social work and leadership meetings for young people and just last week, it became a pop-up medical centre. Amit organised his local doctor friends to donate their time to help suffering poor people. About 200 people received medical treatment and counselling in just one day. The new tailoring school is held in this apartment also. 

We thank God for his provision of such a wonderful resource.

Another highlight this month included winning a local NGO award for recognition of religious leaders who provide social work to the community. It is so good that Amit and Daisy continue to earn the respect of local authorities.

Just in February, I was excited to receive updates about the following projects; 

• school visits as part of the anti- human trafficking project. This involves working in conjunction with the police and school principals. The work is going well. Sadly I learnt of a 12 year old local boy, Nasim, who has gone missing and the police fear for his safety. There is high probability that he may have been trafficked, never to be seen again. We help the local police in their work to find missing children. 
• training and involvement in a womens empowerment program
• visiting needy people in hospital and helping street people, beggars and others who are poor and suffering badly. 

Our Teaching team work hard but they are also very poor. Because of your generous support we gave each of our teachers a gift of a mosquito net and new towels. These were gratefully received. Our teachers work with close to 150 children, 6 days a week.

Each week I receive emails with photos and updates about the projects they are involved in.  If you would like to know more about any of these projects, or see some photos of the people involved, please let me know. It would be my pleasure to tell you more. 

Immediate Growth Goals

1. Amit and Daisy are both starting to find the growth and momentum of their work stressful. I am going to send them some money just to give them an opportunity to have a nice meal out and to enjoy a day trip, something they really love to do. 

2. Admin support worker - 2.5 days a week

3. Christian Youth Worker/ Sports Coach for slum and Village teens and kids - 2.5 days a week.

 $750 will pay for the annual salary of the above positions. 

4. Construction of shade and rain shelter over our outdoor classrooms. $1000 will essentially pay for all four centres. 

5. In my spare time I am still working on the website and a better way to post my monthly newsletters.

Please pray for these things and spread the word of all we are doing and hoping to achieve. If you are able to make a donation, your generosity makes a significant difference and goes a very long way in India. Please spread the word... just $5 a week adds up to help people.