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)