Tsunami Recovery in Four Fishing Villages, India

Dear GlobalGiving Friends and Supporters,

As part of this project we have just completed a review of our recent assistance to 12 poor children (boys and girls) in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Some of these children are doing well in part thanks to GlobalGiving benefactors.

We have also noticed that we are lacking funding in 2008 for 4 of the children that we previously supported for school attendance, clothing and health care: one girl Preethi (Chennai), two twin girls Thenmozhi and Kanimozhi (Tamil Nadu) and a teen age girl Asha Rose (Kerala). Asha is about to go to college if her poor parents who had lost their house to the tsunami can afford it. They can't.

Now, we are not able to support all 4 of these children. Social pressure still makes it more difficult for girls than boys to access schooling in India.

These 4 girls are in need of "God-parents" and loving support. Your support as part of this project can therefore make a difference in their life . This requires cumulative donations of $550 a year only per child/family that our field supervisor Mathew will give directly to each beneficiary family in two installments. One dollar can go a long way in India.

Any volunteer donors for this gentle cause? You would make a marvelous Christmas and Holiday Season gift to be remembered by the beneficiaries for the rest of their life. Your support for this project, which is progressing slowly but usefully well overall, would be great news for the children and their struggling but joyful families. Thank you for your generosity

We wish you also a Merry Christmas and a fruitful New Year 2009 despite everything. Always keep hope in your heart! Warm regards to all. Claudine