Give an Indian Child Home, Food & Schooling

Dear friend,

Thank you very much for your contribution. Without your help we wouldn’t have travelled this far.

What have we done till now?

• 2011 year end, we were disheartened to see many orphan children who need helping hand in our locality. I personally felt a sense of urgency to help these children, and truly my heart was in a different state.  We were thinking about doing something. I and Mr. Sarat Pati sought out to find a solution for these children. A dream for these children, we thought to materialize. We laid out a plan to rent a home and provide home for about 10 children, God helped and fortunately the plan worked.
• On 2012 Jan 1^st, we rented a home near SANTI and enrolled 10 orphans or needy children to the register of SANTI. An ambitious goal for 10 to 15 years – a system to help these children from grade 1 to the point when they are self sustained and ready to stand on their feet. We started to provide shelter, food, education, medical treatment and many other fun activities to these children. This is possible just by your support and donations.
• Needless to say, children are happily staying with us since then and we have continuously resolved various problems and achieved many milestones. My trip to SANTI last year was a memorable experience. I got a chance to spend time with children and participated in various activities. When I was there more children and their parents visited and asked me to adopt their children in SANTI. You can imagine my situation, and at that time I wanted to help but was restricted with my limitations, yes our limitations – needed more fund to support these children. Then came back to my work place with a thought to help them in future.
• I discussed my plan with few friends and Globalgiving. This time I was personally thrilled to see Mr. Sunil Wagh joining our SANTI team on a lead role, although he was involved with SANTI from the beginning. I told him many children approached me during my SANTI visit. He instantly said we should take more children. We put our thought about how to help these few more children. He took it by heart and brought many great people like you to adopt few more children.
• With your help and Sunil’s never give up attitude helped us to take 15 more children. So we are now total of 25 children in our SANTI home.
• This is just because of your donations and great help. Without your help a plan is a plan and wouldn’t have successful to this great extent.

Few notable activities –

• Many children are doing well in their educational activities and we are proud of it.
• Children have taken part in a walk to show the awareness for Right to Education initiative.
• Two of our children have taken part in cultural activities in local school and achieved appreciation for their effort.
• We have added one more warden to help recently adopted children.
• Also we have started conducting extra classes or personal attention to help children who are struggling in school.

Issues in front of us –

• Your donations helped to us to educate 25 children. Now more children need help. More often than before, recently many children or their poor parents have been approaching us and asking the same big question as last year, “Can you allow my child to take under your roof?”. Can we adopt more children?  What will you say?
• A tough choice - I wish I can say yes “let’s take them”. But unfortunately NO - we have exhausted our capacity in current home. We don’t have enough space to take more children. This time we are facing space issues.
• Do we have a solution? YES but sure will be a challenging one. We need to finish the incomplete house of SANTI. In past, we started to build a home for SANTI but couldn’t finish building the house. If we can finish the house, surely we can take more children and help them better. This is the only way to solve this issue. So we have a new challenge to finish the house. We will be getting back to you later on this issue. I have attached the unfinished house picture.

Please keep donating for betterment of these children and help them to lead a good life. Also send this message to your friend and family to help these children.

Your thoughts are welcome and thanks again for your great heart to help these children,

Ashok Dandpat

Chairman, SANTI

www.ihelpchildren.org

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