Looking through photos from this week it's obvious that 'Celebration' has been a key theme!!
It is our last 'teaching' week and so 'Goodbyes' at Tigri, Chanderpuri and Anna Nagar have been intense and very special.
The love and joy we have shared with the Asha staff, mums and babies, children and older students at all the Asha Centres have been deep and impacting on our lives. We will take the memories of everyone home with us. It's not a 'goodbye', but a, 'see you soon'!!
This week found us reflecting on the yearning of the young students to make a better life for themselves against all the odds. They have such a determination to 'make a difference' for their families.
Asha - We commend you because you are enabling this to happen - Dr. Kiran, Freddie, you began this many years ago and from the first tiny seed has grown a very large orchard - in the landscape of Delhi, it is tiny, but it is here and thousands are benefiting from you...... that's wonderful ....... amazing and commendable.
We all need a mentality that will stop, see, bend down, lift up and care about its very poor and needy people!!! Man was given free choice and sadly chose 'selfishness' - of which we are all guilty and as a result we cause immense tragedy to take place.
Sometimes it's hard to suppress the anger, deep sadness and frustration we feel from all we see!
We wonder, where is the cry from its people that could help to make a difference and change a country that boasts its riches and cracks down (overnight) in a nightmare way, on fraud but abandons and turns away from the most needy and vulnerable, its elderly, handicapped, young, poor and destitute ..... a nation that walks by on the other side and chooses not to see, not a stranger, but it's own people.....the people of its womb.
Thank God for Asha and other NGO's working to bring HOPE.
Love
Ken and Heather
It is our last 'teaching' week and so 'Goodbyes' at Tigri, Chanderpuri and Anna Nagar have been intense and very special.
The love and joy we have shared with the Asha staff, mums and babies, children and older students at all the Asha Centres have been deep and impacting on our lives. We will take the memories of everyone home with us. It's not a 'goodbye', but a, 'see you soon'!!
This week found us reflecting on the yearning of the young students to make a better life for themselves against all the odds. They have such a determination to 'make a difference' for their families.
Asha - We commend you because you are enabling this to happen - Dr. Kiran, Freddie, you began this many years ago and from the first tiny seed has grown a very large orchard - in the landscape of Delhi, it is tiny, but it is here and thousands are benefiting from you...... that's wonderful ....... amazing and commendable.
We all need a mentality that will stop, see, bend down, lift up and care about its very poor and needy people!!! Man was given free choice and sadly chose 'selfishness' - of which we are all guilty and as a result we cause immense tragedy to take place.
Sometimes it's hard to suppress the anger, deep sadness and frustration we feel from all we see!
We wonder, where is the cry from its people that could help to make a difference and change a country that boasts its riches and cracks down (overnight) in a nightmare way, on fraud but abandons and turns away from the most needy and vulnerable, its elderly, handicapped, young, poor and destitute ..... a nation that walks by on the other side and chooses not to see, not a stranger, but it's own people.....the people of its womb.
Thank God for Asha and other NGO's working to bring HOPE.
Love
Ken and Heather
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| Just behind the World Health Organisation is Anna Nagar Slum!!! |
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| This must be the view from the offices at the World Health Organisation - I wonder whether it inspires them??? |
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| Great fun with mums and children at our 'pre school skills workshop' at Tigri. |
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| Ken's students at Chanderpuri treated us to a picnic lunch of rice, samosas and coke! |
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| They all shared that the English lessons had been really helpful, fun, interactive and a new way of learning for them. Such a privilege to have had this time of learning together. |
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| We will miss you all! |
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| Thank goodness our photos will be a lovely reminder of special people. |
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| Monica decided we needed to be tested on our Hindi progress - we scored 10/10 - must be due to her teaching!! |
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| Such a lovely time of giving out the soft toys brought out by the team from St. Stephens. Over 150 babies and toddlers in 5 different slum colonies now have a soft toy to love and cuddle!!! Thank you so much! |
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| 'Goodbye' photo of Ken's students and staff at Anna Nagar. |
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| I'm sure we'll find our bike eventually - did Bill and Judy have this problem?? |
so right. Sending you big hugs for your emotional, physical and practical return from India. Lots of love Victoria
ReplyDeleteHi Victoria, thanks for your comment. We have spent the last week saying goodbye to everyone. We have few more people to see (Dr Kiran this evening!) and then the final pack-up. See you soon. Love Ken and Heather p.s. the Branston is finished!
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