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Our Annual Summer Program was conducted with an additional and extremely attractive feature – the Mid-day Meal! Our kids are picked up by us from far off villages and brought to one of our 3 centres. They go home to an empty house, since the parents are at work. Many of them probably go without lunch, and the thought has been gnawing at us for a while. So this year we decided to make a special effort to raise some funds for this, and tightened our belts to ensure that the kids did not go home on an empty stomach.

Our rural Coordinators rose to the occasion to arrange for fresh produce daily, and with the help of a cooking lady, provided the kids a healthy, hygeinic, hot and home-like meal to the children. Often enough our Coordiantors, some of whom themeselves are wanting in so much, also contributed items of provisions, or mostly produce from their own farms, which touched us immenesely. We are truly grateful to them all.

The Summer holidays behind us, we started our new academic year by adopting 22 more rural schools, covering about 1000 more rural children. We have recruited 20 more rural ladies into our Program. Our ususal baseline Assessments are well under way, and our Coordinators once again conduct them, sometimes under exteemely trying conditions as can be seen from some of the pictures.

All this effort by our Coordinators reaffirm our faith in our model of involving the communities we serve, since this produces the best results.