The Children

Some of the children shown on this site are without a sponsor, although all forty-eight currently live in Sanctuary Home. Previously, they lived on the streets. Those classified as orphans have no parents to care for them. Those classified as semi-orphans were also in a merciless situation: they have one living parent who has remarried, and according to their culture, they are not welcome in the new household. Some have a parent who can't care for them, and some have been abandoned. All of these children need to have their physical needs met, as well as their emotional needs and an education. If you would like to sponsor a child, please email us to find out which children need sponsors at this time. Update: All forty-eight children are sponsored. Once we complete the new SH building, we will need sponsors for an additional twenty children.

 

Hanuma already has a sponsor.

Child profiles by P. Isaac, Tenali, India.

Here is pathetic story with which I am very much worried. During  Sis, Amanda visit to us we were very privileged  to visit slum area. We found a hut there covered with  old clothes in which  a mother and two children by name Venkatesh, Hanuma stay in. Sis. Amanda was very much moved on considering their merciless condition. We were told that the father of above said two children died out of T.B. We also found she was leading her life by cleaning dishes in a small hotel. She was in a condition that she could not even earn minimum food for her there by struggle for food two children cannot be described. By God’s grace the two children are able to find accommodation in S.H through Sis.Amanda involvement. We are indeed grateful to her as she allowed them to have a better life.
 

That was before...this is after...

Hanuma is 5 years old and in first class. He enjoys hopping on one foot. When we interviewed him, he had been at SH for only two or three days. He was too bashful to really speak to us, so we asked about him. He did demonstrate hopping on one foot, and was pleased that we enjoyed watching him. His mother, ill and destitute, will come to see him every few weeks.

Hanuma is the second from left; his brother Venketesh is third from right. These new children are wearing their school uniforms.

 

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