Give an Indian Child Home, Food & Schooling

Dear Friends,

Hope you are doing well and thank you very much for your donations and continued support to our children. We are excited to inform you the progress of our 25 children in our SANTI Child Care Center.

Last three months activities:

•          Deepavali – Festival of light is a big festival for family gathering and fire crackers. In SANTI, children felt like home by celebrating Deepavali. Please see pictures of food and crackers.
•          We wanted create awareness of children education with a focus to eliminate child labor in our local area. On November 14^th Children Day, SANTI initiated a rally with 150 children in the local area. Please see the pictures the results were very positive from the residents.
•          Winter was challenging as the children needed warm clothes. Thanks to an anonymous donor who donated to buy warm clothes and comforter for these children. Please see photos of children with sweaters.
•          The Goddess Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, arts and nature. SANTI celebrated Saraswati Puja (Prayer) on the auspicious Sarasawti Puja Day. Please see pictures.
•          We also conducted regular medical checkup by a Doctor Visit to ensure children are doing well.

Expense Report:

•          We are publishing our 2013 year-end expenses with this report. Hope you find this useful to evaluate our activities. This will be helpful to know how we spent our money.
•          Our expenses increased because we increased our support from 10 to 25 children.

Issues in front of us:

•          Unfortunately, we have almost exhausted the money raised in 2013. We have only about 45 USD left in 2013 year-end account.
•          We need more recurring donors to support a child on a month to month basis. Please come forward to adopt a child and support for his/her continued growth.

 Thanks again for your help and please continue to support.

Ashok Dandpat

Chairman, SANTI

• SANTI Child Care Center - 2013 Expense Report (XLSX)

Dear Friend,

Hope you are doing well and thank you very much for your donations and support to our children. We are excited to tell you the progress of our 25 children in our SANTI Child Care Center.

Last three months activities:

• In order to boost the quality of education, we appointed Miss Shanti Bhengra as a private tutor to teach all students in the evening time. As we wanted to bring the best out of our children this additional teaching will be very helpful to students who are currently struggling in school. We focus our best to teach these children and hence will be successful in future.  
• We recruited Roshni Tirkey as a new warden to take care of all of our children, previously served by only Balmati Nag. Now both the warden will be taking care of our 25 children.
• To re-emphasis patriotism, we celebrated the Independence Day by hoisting the flag in SANTI Child Care Center.
• Children made their own Rakhi (see Picture) and tied to each other on Rakshya Bandhan Day. This will create stronger bonding among the children.
• Ganesh Puja was observed in the school and also Nuakhai – a festival to have new rice- was celebrated.
• We also conducted regular medical checkup by a Doctor Visit to ensure children are doing well.

Two interesting Anonymous donors:

• An Anonymous donor wanted to donate money so that all children will be able to visit to a nearby city for Durga Puja (a Hindu Festival) celebration. This was a very touchy moments for those children because they had never been to these kind of festival. They had a great time with food, Park visit and the City trip. Of course, they were not interested to come back home in the evening. They wanted to have more fun.
• Another anonymous donor didn’t accept her birthday gift. She donated her Birthday Gift equivalent of money to celebrate the Birth Day of 4 SANTI children. Four children Sobhati, Jashita, Jawara and Seema celebrated their Birthday on 23^rd October 2013. You can enjoy the pictures - sorry the cake is gone.  

Issues in front of us:

• We need to complete the half built new building for the SANTI children. Currently we cannot accommodate new children as we have maximized our capacity. We will run a charity drive in next year to collect the funding for this initiative.
• We need help to rebuild our website so please tell us if you are interested to be a part of the team.

 Thanks to all of you for your donation and support. The smiling faces of these children are made possible only by your support. We are proud to be with you.

Thanks again,

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