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Laura runs the 2010 London marathon and Ali the London "Run to the Best 2009 half marathon.
24/06/2010
Past sponsor children who are now International cuisine chefs attend the opening of our complex and cook for 400 guests!
23/06/2010
Jacob Thomas carves wooden hand held crosses for distribution to patients in a Norwich hospital.
28/04/2010
After several years of renting buildings we finally have our own newly built Boys Home, Girls Home, School and Dining block.
February 2010
Dhanya and Remya are studying nursing and engineering. A real home sponsored success story!
31/10/2009
We work with a Catholic priest in Sri Lanka helping to provide tuition and sponsorship to children who had been affected by the Tsunami.
30/04/2010
We purchased and pay for the running costs of 2 ambulances and look after elderly dependents of cancer patients.
With all the cows we give to Mavelikara families the first female calf born will be given back to us to give to other families, so the help will be ongoing.
We continue to offer homes and education to our sponsor children as well as day care facilites for the elderly.
In January 2005 on their way back from a visit to India Pat and Suzy had a stopover in Sri Lanka, which led to an amazing meeting with Father Terence.
25/02/2005
Pat returns from her 41st visit and she says a massive thanks to all of you for the generous support which makes all of this possible!
10/03/2012
The centres offer shelter, food, companionship and love. Our resident grannies are sponsored and many more ladies drop in for their daily lunch.
10/06/2010
Our grannies spend their days resting, enjoying each other's company, watching tv, having nutritious food and most importantly of all being loved.
Our 2 ambulances enable the team to reach the homes of extremely poor cancer patients too sick or poor to attend the hospital for treatment
Currently £10 monthly will provide food, vitamin supplements, medical and dental care, clothes, toiletries, and educational costs for a child.
The Bishop of Central Kerala formally opened the School, Boys Home, Girls Home, Granny Centre and Dining Block that we have built in Mavelikara.
20th March 2010
We look after the medical needs of children and elderly and provide ambulances so treatment can be given to cancer patients in rural areas.
28/02/2010
Local children who come to the new school are from destitute families, generally the total family income will be less than fifty pounds per year.
30/11/09
The new grannies in our "Adopt a Granny" scheme are wonderful! They don't have much space at the moment but seem really happy to be together.
31/03/09
Pat and one of our long term sponsors Preb. Peter Speck gave presentations at the Regional Cancer Centre.
17/11/2008
Educationally the standard of our school children is increasing rapidly, they were all well behind for their age but this has now changed.
30/09/2008
We provided a second new ambulance for the Palliative Care Team, which takes a doctor, nurses and medication to terminally ill cancer patients.
25/03/2008
In Sri Lanka our work with families who have been affected by the Tsunami continues, we are now sponsoring the educational needs of 33 children.
01/10/07
We have arranged and paid for the purchase of about an acre of land and plans are in place to build a Boys Home, Girls Home and a small school.
01/12/06
These are the projects that The Vidiyal Trust are currently supporting.
After years of our children living in rented buildings they finally have their own newly built homes in Mavelikara, with the boys home also being used for our new school.
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We purchased 2 ambulances to enable the team to reach the homes of extremely poor cancer patients who were too sick or could not afford to attend the hospital for treatment.
Currently £10 monthly will provide food, vitamin supplements, medical and dental care, clothes, toiletries, and educational costs for a child. Contact between a child and their sponsor is encouraged, twice a year you will receive a hand written letter from your child with a translation letter from the manager of the project, along with a photo.
Currently £10 monthly will provide food, vitamin supplements, saris, toiletries and medical care for a granny. Contact between a granny and her sponsor is encouraged; although the ladies are all illiterate they will dictate letters to the manager of our project who will write it down and send to you with the translation. Twice a year sponsors will receive a letter from their granny and a photo.
We run a tuition centre to provide extra lessons to our former sponsor children, enabling them to catch up on the education disrupted by the Tsunami of 2004. We continue to sponsor the educational needs of 3 University children.
We originally started our project to provide cows to poor villages thanks to money raised by a children's project "Camp under the Son" run by Meadow Way Chapel in Hellesdon.
Pat writes a long and interesting report after every trip. Click the link to take you to the latest trip report.
Read about Trip 41
See the photos from the opening of our new complex.
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