Food, Shelter and School for Orphans in India

Dear donors greetings to all you from the heart of HEARTS.

Great to see you all once again through this GG Quarterly Report.

Happy to say from this academic year we have taken new kids, most of them are below 12 years old. Now the number of children went up to 60 from 43! Most of the kids are full orphans and others are who lost their mothers. New kids are very happy, feeding all the children with nutritious food every day like milk, egg and on Sundays Chicken/Fish curries will be served.

Every day, children go to schools and colleges at 9AM, elementary children back to LHO at 4PM, High school children come back by 5:30 and college students come back after 6PM. 2 tutors regularly come to teach and help children by 5:30PM and stay with children 7:30PM. Our main focus are on Maths and English subjects.
From last month 5 day week tutoring. Saturday and Sundays are free time to play, shout, dance and watch TV whatever they want to watch like movies, cartoons shows etc., Children have full freedom and at the same time discipline with love and consistency.

Almost all the children come from down trodden communities, slums, villages. They come without proper clothing, without manners. Their backgrounds are so sad and pathetic to listen. We never see a woman without tears when they come to LHO along with their children for admission. Heart breaking stories!!

These of children often feel loneliness and big cry for care and love. We try to make and keep them happy. Lot of patience needs to be shown to bring them back to main stream of life. Running an orphanage is not as easy as we speak!

Whenever a child feels sick, immediately we take them to the nearby children's hospital for treatment. It's very fortunate we found a Children's specialist for treatment for free of cost. His name is Dr. S Rao who is very kind for our children. We thank him for his services for free.

On every holiday all the children go to nearby Police Parade and Darga grounds to play. Elder children love to play Cricket, girls like to play Shuttle Batmenton.

Many local people from Nellore town come and celebrate Birthdays, Marriage Anniversaries, Memorials by donating food, biscuits, chocolates and cakes. On Saturday a man donated Rs.1500 for Chicken. Some students donate Note Books, Pens, Pencils. Engineering College students also frequently visit LHO and play with children. We encourage those guys visit again and again.

After tutoring is over at 7:30 they play for half an hour and go to dinner. After dinner also they go for walking and play till 9:30PM. All the lights will be off by 9:30PM. You can see children all the time with smile and laughing.

Whenever there are holidays for more than two days most of the children will be sent to their homes to celebrate festivals and to attend rituals with their families.

From 7th standard children wake up by 5 AM and get ready for studies till 7:30. Elementary children wake up by 6AM.

Recently we have changed ground flooring floor with new tiles which is looking nice and beautiful. The old flooring was 14 years old.

A longtime friend from USA donated 1000USD and also promised to donate more in the future who visited LHO ten years ago!

We appointed another new worker to help and take care of children. Also we need to a part time worker to work along with the existing workers.

All the children at LHO doing well. Please donate more to make existing kitchen bigger one and to buy new kitchenware.

We will get back to you with more information in our next GG report.

Until then, thank you very much.

Respected donors around the world

Greetings to you all from the heart of HEARTS.

First of all, I am glad to share about 12th Anniversary celebrated on 25th February with children and decorated "little HEARTS orphanage (LHO)" with blue colour lights to appear like stars in the sky at nights. This was very first anniversary celebrations. LHO was started on 25th February of 2005 with the kind financial support of the River Fund. We are always grateful to our donors for their continuous support to see clear change in the lives of children who lost both parents/single parent/abandoned and neglected by the parents.

Our 4 boys and a girl successfully completed first year Intermediate but yet they are not satisfied for their performance getting marks and again they attended for some important subjects to get more mars! This is very good sign that we are in right way to lead the children.

Ramu, who recently completed his civil engineering with 72% of marks and started sending resumes to different construction companies. Few months ago, a group of engineers visited LHO and promised Ramu to help to get a job with in their influence.

Mahesh, he is now working as a Technical Assistant selected through outsourcing and posted at Mandal Development Officer's Office of Manubolu Mandal of Nellore District which is one of the government's important wings to implement and supervise developmental activities to benefit the farmers, poor, outcasts of the society etc., are target groups.

Kamal and Moshe passed Tenth Class with 83% and 82% respectively.

Last month we have appointed 2 new tutors named Bindhu and Nawaz to teach especially Maths, Science, and English. Now we have 3 sufficient tutors to cover all the children and each tutor cover 15 children.

Happy to inform you all on 22nd of this month Ms. Romila and Ms. Adrija had a project visit. We are also waiting to hear their comments and report. They interacted with children and spent almost a day at LHO.

Please see the attached list of donations received from local donors from January to till date. Couple of hours ago, I received a phone call from a woman advocate that she is bringing clothes and 50 Geometry Boxes to present LHO children tomorrow morning at 10AM.

Once again we thank and grateful to our respected donors, the River Fund for their love and financial support.

Also, we are glad to inform you that Ms. Jaya, Executive Director of the River Fund will visit LHO early September.

Before I close this report, again and again I request our respectful donors to donate more and more to educate, feed to lead a respectable life of each child at LHO by giving them an opportunity of hope and love.

This is all for now, reporting from LHO to GlobalGiving through the River Fund.

C.P.Kumar
HEARTS