| News from the Projects - 2006 |
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| Foundation
for Children in Need |
December
10, 2006 |
| Dear Sponsors,
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hearts are filled with much love and gratitude
as we thank God and all of you. We want
to thank you for your love, kindness and
generous support. You have been very kind
and gracious to us. We take this opportunity
to wish you A Merry Christmas and A Blessed
New Year. May the Child Jesus continue
to bless you with His Love and Peace in
the coming year 2007. |
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| It is
because of your support that we are able
to continue our mission work. Our dream
of establishing a Foundation to support
our mission work has been accomplished
with your kindness. We are ever grateful
to you for your prayers and generous help.
Thanks a million. |
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We are happy to
be back home. We have been visiting
our projects and seeing all the sponsored
children and college students. We are
able to spend some time with our elderly
at St. Xavier’s home for the aged.
We are glad to share with you that all
are doing well. They all send their
greetings and love to you. We are happy
to send Christmas letter and greeting
cards from your sponsored individuals.
We are confident that you are happy
to receive them.
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| We are
pleased to share with you that because
of your kind and generous contribution
towards GIFT FUND, we are able to purchase
Christmas gifts for all the sponsored.
They are delighted to receive these gifts.
Than you so much for your understanding.
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| From
2007, we plan on spending most of the
time in India. We will be coming to United
States to spend the month of May and September
to take care of the Foundation work and
to make few mission appeals. Please continue
to support us so that we are able to reach
out to the needy. |
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| All
of you are in our thoughts and prayers.
Please continue to pray for us and support
us. Thank you once again and wish you
all A Merry Christmas and A Blessed New
Year.
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| Dr.
Geetha Yeruva & Tom Chitta |
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| Dear Friends, |
September
8, 2006 |
| We are
happy to share with you that Father Bob
Hasenkamp, a priest of the Archdiocese of
Kansas City, Kansas came to spend three
days with us. Father Bob is a friend of
us and has been to India three times. He
has been sponsoring two college students
through FCN. It was such a joy to spend
some time with Father Bob. In our FCN visitors
book he has written the following. We are
confident that you will enjoy reading it. |
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| Tom and
Geetha |
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Dear Tom and Geetha
and Staff of FCN,
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| Thank
you for your wonderful ministry to the children
and elderly in India. I have been so blessed
by my association with your Foundation and
my life has been so enriched by sponsoring
two of the students. |
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| Your ministry
of care and compassion is a great gift to
me and to the thousands of people who are
touched by it. May the God of all peoples
and nations continue to bless your work
and enable it to grow and flourish for many
years to come. You will have a special place
in my heart and prayers. |
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| Father
Bob Hasenkamp, Perry, Kansas |
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Report of visits to FCN projects
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in Hyderabad on November 19, 2005 and started
visit to Hyderabad project the very second
day. We spent several days helping the children
around Hyderabad with Christmas letters.
The month of December was a very busy month.
We organized and supervised the Christmas
letters from all the sponsored and were
mailed promptly. |
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We have visited
the following projects:
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| Arogyamatha
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Bala
Yesu |
| Christu Jyothi
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Hyderabad |
| Jedcherla |
Kalasapadu |
| Khajipet |
Nandyal |
| Nandyal-College
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Navjeevan |
| Prema Nilayam |
Porumamilla |
| Shanti Hostel
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St. Antony’s |
| St. Mary’s
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St.
Xavier’s |
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week visited two villages: |
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The
major projects like Prema Nilayam,
Porumamilla, Nandyal, Nandyal-College
and St. Xavier’s, were visited
several times. |
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The
sponsorship program is going on very
well and the children are doing great.
We are fully satisfied with all the
projects and their performance. |
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We
have seen that everyone is receiving
the benefits of the sponsorship program
to our satisfaction. |
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For
the first time we were able to produce
a DVD. Thanks to David and Nancy Danis,
Mary Danis, Tom Chiapelas, Linda and
Marty Moore and Jack Watkins for helping
with the production of the DVD. |
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We printed two
brochures. |
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| We are extremely happy with
the sponsorship program and the projects.
We are truly grateful to the Board of Directors,
sponsors, donors and supporters for making
it possible. |
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| Submitted by Tom and Geetha |
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| Board meeting , May 13th 2006 |
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Foundation
for Children in Need
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April
16, 2006 |
| 1417 E. Miner Street |
| Arlington Heights,
IL 60004, USA. |
| Dear Friends, |
| Greetings
and love to you. We would like to take this
opportunity to wish you A Very Happy Easter.
May the Risen Lord bless you abundantly. |
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We returned from India on March 15, after
spending four months there. We were very
busy with medical camps, the sponsorship
program, and visits to our different projects.
We are happy to share with you that all
our works are going well. God has been richly
blessing our ministries and us. We thank
you for your kind and generous support without
which we would not be able to carry on our
work. We pray that God will continue to
bless you. |
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| We will be spending
seven months in the US. During this time we
will be traveling to different dioceses to
make mission appeals. This will be our last
extended stay in US. We plan to return to
India in October 2006. From 2007 onwards,
we will be spending most of the time in India.
We plan to come for short visits in the summer
each year. Please keep us in your prayers. |
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| Please feel free
to contact us. |
| We appreciate all
your help. Thank you once again , and we wish
you all the best |
| With
Love and Prayers, |
Tom
Chitta & Geetha Yeruva |
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| Email:
tomchitta@hotmail.com,
ydrgeetha@hotmail.com
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January
23, 2006 |
| Greetings
and Best wishes to you. Hope and pray that
you are doing well. |
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We have very sad news to share with you.
One of our staff, Mr. Showry Antony, (55
years old) suffered a massive heart attack
and died on January 21, Saturday evening.
His funeral took place Sunday evening at
his native village, Britragunta, 120 miles
away from Porumamilla. This is a very sad
time for us. May he rest in peace. Please
keep him in your prayers. He is survived
by his wife, Annette who is a teacher. |
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| Showry was working
with Foundation for Children in Need for the
past three years. He did wonderful with regards
to sponsorship program. He was a big help
for us in our ministry. It is a great loss
for us. It will take sometime for us to find
someone to replace him as we live in a rural
area. Please keep us in your prayers. |
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| Thanking you for
your love and support. |
| With
Love and Prayers, |
Tom
Chitta & Geetha Yeruva |
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Tom Chitta and Geetha Yeruva
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January
5, 2006 |
| Foundation
for Children in Need |
| Porumamilla –
516 193, A.P., India. |
| Dear
Sponsors, |
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| Greetings and love
to all of you. We take this opportunity to
wish you once again A Very Joyful New Year,
filled with peace and love. We thank you all
for your continued support to your sponsored
child, student or elderly friend. We are ever
grateful to you for your kind and generous
help. It means a lot in the lives of those
whom you sponsor. |
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| We are happy to
share with you that all our works are going
on well. We are glad that we are able to reach
out to many needy in our area. We thank God
for blessing us with this ministry. We are
glad that you are able to join us in this
great work. We think of you and pray for you. |
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| It is exceptionally
kind of many sponsors to send a special gift
for those you sponsor for Christmas or for
birthday or for family support. We appreciate
it very much. Geetha and myself and our FCN
staff have tried our best to buy the gifts
needed for those you sponsor or for their
siblings or family. We were very happy to
do it and make it personal and send you thank
you letters and photos of the gifts bought.
At this time we have 900 Children/students/elderly
sponsored. Sponsorship program is a great
blessing for all of them and their families.
Although many sponsors are writing letters
and sending additional gifts, there are many
who are not getting any gift. We are receiving
gifts from $ 10 to $ 150. While some are happy
to receive these gifts others are not getting
any. We are having lot of practical difficulties
with the distribution of the gifts. Children
are divided due to the variation of the gift
amount. We have tried our very best to educate
our children and their families. Our staff
has to spend lot of time to organize this
throughout the year and it is affecting our
works. Also there are many children who do
not have sponsors and they do not get any
gifts. So it is a big problem. |
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| Hence we request
all the sponsors to send $ 20 to $ 50 or more
as a Christmas gift or birthday gift or family
gift. We will pool all the gift money and
in the month of November and December all
the sponsored will get a Christmas gift. This
way all the sponsored will be treated equally.
This will be ideal thing for our situation.
Please kindly understand us and help us in
this matter. You are welcome to send the gift
money anytime during the year. Please kindly
try to send your generous donation latest
by the first week of October so that we can
buy gifts and have them ready for distribution
by early December. |
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| Once again we thank
you for your kind and generous support. We
are always grateful to you. You are in our
thoughts and prayers. All the sponsored are
praying for you. |
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| Wishing
you all the best. With Love and Prayers, |
Tom
Chitta & Geetha Yeruva |
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