Beyond Sangita

Shobha took us to visit some of the children who have lived at Sangita, who are now older and live at Ebenezer Home 45km away.  The white knuckle ride there was like being on safari pot hole after pot hole past the villages.

Two of the permanent staff at Sangita’s have children who live there, one a daughter, one a son.  They manage to visit once every three months for a short time.  They did not visit with us on this occasion.  We took the children some of our many supplies which were kindly donated and which we were able to bring with us thanks to Pastor Bogle and Mary at British Airways who got us both free excess baggage, “Praise the Lord”.  The children were very grateful and we took lot of pictures of the children for their mum’s to see on our return, this was very emotional.

Ebenezer home has fantastic outdoor facilities and lots of ground for the children to play cricket, volleyball etc.  There are around 300 children divided into houses of round 20 with a “mother”. They wear uniforms with different coloured checked shirts for each house.

We were a big hit once more dishing out chocolate eclairs and had the assistance of a 10 year old “bouncer” maintaining crowd control and frantically instructing us “aunteee” aunteee’ and pointing to who had still to get one while shouting in Tamil and shaking his fists at those who were attempting to sneak extra “pure mental” Just when we thought we could control 60 + kids!!!!

The Sangita Trust’s vision for the future is to have a place similar where the children are divided into smaller groups with plenty of land for the children to play safely.  They also pray they will be able to keep the children beyond 6yrs to allow them to do all their schooling there and give them stability. Please keep this vision in your prayers for this future development, making this vision a much needed reality.