Thank you to Beverly Davies, the United Methodist Churches of Western NY, Spiritus Christi Church and many sponsors!

You have all helped us purchase sacks and sacks of rice, a new washing machine, and some special gifts for the children. Thank you for helping us provide a caring, nurturing environment for the tsunami orphans at Miracle Garden. Your gifts, in these challenging economic times in the US, have blessed all the children. You can be proud to know that you are changing their lives and providing them a future of hope!
Pictured above - the boys loading (dirty) white clothes in the new washer, Kalai Selvan behind 75KG bags of rice (one bag lasts only 3.5 days!), and Little Prakash with his new bike. :-)

We need sponsors

N. Prakash, age 8, 3rd grade

Sneha, age 8, 2nd grade

Sponsors please.

Left to right:
Abirami, age 7, 2nd grade

Malarkudi, age 12, 8th grade

Bottom:
Sangeetha, age 12, 6th grade

Soundariya, age 9, 3rd grade

We need sponsors!

Left to Right:
Yemmimal, age 10, 5th grade

Shalini, age 10, 5th grade

Bottom L-R:

Ananthi, age 10, 5th grade

Sathiya, age 10, 5th grade

We need sponsors, too!

Left to Right:

Kasturi, age 5, 1st grade

Srinithi, age 6, 1st grade

bottom both pictures
Suresh, age 6, 1st grade

We need sponsors

Left to right:
Daniels, age 8, 3rd grade

Balamurugan, age 8, 3rd grade

Bottom:
Meena, age 8, 2nd grade

We need Sponsors

Left to right:
Prem, age 14, 7th grade

Subramaniam, age 16, 9th grade

bottom:
Sundar, age 13, 6th grade

We need sponsors!

Left to right:
Sakthi Kumar, age 15, 9th grade

Daniel, age 13, 5th grade

Bottom:
Sakthi Raj, age 13, 6th grade

We need sponsors.

Top to bottom:
Praveen Kumar, age 13, 5th grade
Migavil, age 9, 4th grade
Gokul Prasanth, age 9, 4th grade

Waiting to change clothes.

Meena, N.Prakash, and others wait patiently outside the office to change their school uniforms into play clothes.

N. Prakash takes a turn on the slide.

Whee! N. Prakash slides lickety-split into the sand at the bottom of the slide while Srinithi, Tamil Selvi, Meena, and Sangeetha look on.

A Little Generator Trouble

The small kerosene generator housed in the electrical shed at Miracle Garden is in sad need of repair again. With energy costs soaring around the world, the government of Tamil Nadu has been shutting off the power on a regular basis to outlying villages. At least 3 days in a week the power is cut to MG. The children eat their dinner during the dusk hour by moonlight (it gets dark in India by 6pm year-round) and get ready for bed in the dark. Even though our little Honda generator was only sufficient to power a handful of lights on campus, it was better than nothing. Ideally, Miracle Garden needs an industrial strength generator - one capable of powering the building lights & fans, and several lights along the compound wall. The small generator has been broken for about one month now and no one from the repair shop in Coimbatore has come to fix it, even though they have been called several times. The machine is also difficult to bring to the shop because of its weight and because the shop has been closed several times when John arrived with the generator - a particularly frustrating scenario. Cleaning and repairs are estimated to be about $100 for this unit. John is researching prices and features of a new or refurbished, larger unit. He estimates an industrial strength generator may cost about $3000. This is now the top item on the MG "Wish List."

Autumn Skies at Miracle Garden