By C.P.Kumar | Director
Namaste respected donors, friends and well-wishers of little HEARTS orphanage
Loving greetings from the heart of HEARTS.
Once again I am delighted to speak and share our children's progress and all round performance through this Global Giving quarterly report through the River Fund.
Because of the River Fund and all of your love and donations through Global Giving we have successfully been running "little HEARTS orphanage" since 2005.
At present we have been feeding, accommodating 39 children. From this academic year we have given admission to 4 children and their names are Charmi (5), Ashirwad alias Nani (4) Karthik (14) and Prasanna Kumar (13). Charmi lost both of their parents, Nani whose father died of HIV this May and mother is also infected with HIV. Karthik and Prasanna Kumar both are brothers whose mother got re-married and abandoned. Charmi and Nani are our new little ones and both are hyper active. They are always playing and running around, now they are our new super heroes of little hearts!! We really are enjoying their stay.
At last we have completed 3rd floor which was built for 26 HIV infected children and we named it Simhapuri Children's Home (SCH). When the Kings ruled they named it as Simhapuri which is original and oldest name of Nellore. The newly constructed 3rd floor will be occupied by HIV infected children on 1st September.
Ramu who successfully completed college got seat in Engineering College and now he is busy in submitting certificates to the government like study, conduct, caste, 10th and Intermediate (college) certificates to the government.
All the children are studying well and also feeding with nutritious food like egg, milk and fruit every day. Recently local donors collected lots of used clothes and donated to little hearts which are enormous help to children. After distribution of clothes we shared some of them to other children's homes run by HEARTS. Not less than thrice in every month local people are donating chocolates, fruits, sweets, biscuits etc., one woman whose husband is a Police donated 7 pillows from their children's scholarship!.
Some of the local Engineering College students visited and took a list of things from children and promised to donate sandals, underwears, Tooth brushes etc., next month 8th. Along with them a psychiatrist will also be visiting little hearts to give a brief.
2 women tutors are regularly attending little hearts to help and teach maths, english subjects to Elementary children. 9th and 10th class children are regularly attending outside tutor to "Sreedhar Coaching Centre" to learn mainly Maths, English, Physics and Biology. 9th and 10th class children need more attention because their education system and examinations are different before they go to college. Unless they pass 10th, they would not go to college. This academic year is crucial mainly for 10th class boys and girls. For each 10th class student we paid Rs.3000/- and for each 9th class student we paid Rs.2000/- as their yearly tuition fee.
On 21st of this month, Professor M.Srinivasulu Reddy, Principal, Vikrama Simhapuri University (www.simhapuriuniv.org) donated dinner on behalf of their daughter Ms.Vandana who's Birthday and Marriage day, who is doing her MS at Lamore Univeristy, Texas. May God bless Ms.Vandana and her family richly.
Our previous Manager V.Raghuram left the job and now my wife Mamatha and I are taking care of little hearts children. Everyday we spend most of time with children from morning to afternoon and evening to until they go to bed. They call us Mummy and Daddy. We always happy and love to hear and proud for being called us as their parents. We have given lot of freedom to all the children to share their happiness and to express their feelings or stress or agony without any fear or shy. We, as parents and they, as children really blessed by living together. Also we are doing our level best to keep and make them happy and self esteemed.
In front of little hearts, recently we made a shuttle court! whenever children get time, without delay, immediately they start playing shuttle!! On holidays we take them to Children's park or Police Parade Grounds or Darga Grounds where Muslims pray for Ramdan and Bakrid which is very big ground and Swarnala Lake (Nellore Cheruvu).
In my personal observation children are now more confident than previous years.
Ms.Jaya Priya and her husband William from Florida, USA visiting little hearts from 27 - 29 of September on be half of the River Fund. We are eagerly waiting for their visit and also Mr.Amit Shaan and Ms.Neha from the Netherlands also visiting little hearts in the month of October.
Before I close this quartely report, I would like to give a BIG HUG to the River Fund, Global Giving and our kind donors.
Until next quarterly report See You all...God bless you all and Bye.
Kind regards,
C.P.Kumar
HEARTS
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