Happy Valley is our special needs centre at Kalathara in Kerala, India. Recently Philip sent us a lovely video of the children celebrating Independence Day - shown below. Covid-19 has badly affected Kerala once again. A new lockdown is in…
We have worked with Wilson Kochukunju at the Neyyar Dam for a number of years. Last month we were able to send him out a bit of extra money, and he has told us how he has spent it: Very…
I have just had an urgent email from Pastor Wilson, who runs an Indian NGO on the shores of the Neyyar Dam, doing similar work to The Banyan Tree. We contribute to some of his projects. He writes: Praise the…
We have recently received an email from Philip, which gives a good picture of the situation in his part of Kerala. As you can see, he is doing a great job of finding ways of keeping things going despite the…
Not to be outdone by Pastor Wilson, Philip has also been distributing food to people who are starving because of the lockdown in India, which is much more severe than ours and, unlike here, there is very little government support…
We have had another email from Pastor Wilson. He writes: Respected Bro. Edmund Sir, Praise the Lord! I write down some very urgent needs to some patients. Please read and take a favourable action if possible.. God bless you all…
Pastor Wilson has also sent us some videos of the distribution of essential foodstuffs to people who were starving as a result of the lockdown:
Many of you will have followed with interest the informative updates we received from the ‘Travelling Trio’ during their stay in India. Sometimes though, there are ‘behind the scenes’ kindnesses that are not always known. And this is a perfect…
In a recent post we told of Pastor Wilson's wish to feed some of the starving people in his area who have been thrown out of work by the lockdown in India, which is much worse than ours and there…
It is very likely that many of our supporters have one of the Crafts we sell either online, in talks or at our Supporters’ events which we bring back from India or Zambia. And it is also very likely that…