Heal: Health & Education for all

Archive 2003

Letter from Vijaya to Abbott Hall School

Hello!

Greetings from HEAL India!

I am Vijaya, sponsorship Secretary of HEAL in India. I write to the sponsors sending them reports about the children they are sponsoring.

Last Saturday I went to HEAL Village and took some photos of the boys learning to play on the keyboard instruments. I am sending them to you. You donated the amount with which we bought the instruments! The boys are enjoying themselves learning the notes. Thank you very much.
We went through a severe summer this year. The temperature rose to 49 celsius! Can you imagine it? The children in HEAL were able to have cool water to drink thanks to the water cooler which we bought with the money donated by you!

The children in HEAL come from families which are very poor. Most of them have no parents. Some of the circumstances in which they come to Heal are very tragic. Recently three girls, the eldest one is hardly ten years old joined Heal. Their father, a farm hand died after eating food contaminated by some pesticide which he was spraying in a field an hour earlier. The mother also died last year while working in the fields due to snakebite. The girls were left orphaned and some of the villagers took pity on them and brought them to HEAL.

Now the girls are secure and go to school. There are many such tragic stories in HEAL but I don’t want you to feel sad. Heal children are proof of the fact that there is always hope – even in the worst circumstances.

You children are doing wonderful work. Thank you once again.

Have a wonderful Harvest Festival!

Vijaya