July 28th, 2003 Trevor Thevarajah
A summary of our funding achievements
So far approximately £25,000 has been collected and donated to the cause since this initiative began. Presently about £1200 every quarter is remitted. We have about 20 regular donors and two companies who also donate on a regular monthly basis. Occasionally we have unusual donations, one of our regular donors who got married recently requested his guests to donate to this initiative. Read the rest of this entry »
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July 20th, 2003 Trevor Thevarajah
- A further sum of £1750 has been sent to Sri Lanka to support the project making a total of no less than £5,250. Most of this came from donations made by the various Lions clubs in the Zone, when they adopted this as the Zone Project. We also have 15 donors who are contributing monthly a sum of £5.00 towards this project.
- An application is being prepared to be submitted to the Lions Club International Fund requesting donations to extend an existing Vocational Centre in Batticaloa. Rev. Jeynesan feels that more young people can be given the opportunity to acquire skills and fend for themselves. To meet the necessary criteria of LCIF matching funds raised by Lions clubs towards capital projects, we are actively seeking large organisation that are prepared to donate towards this project. Once again we are delighted to say GEMNI Group of companies have agreed to donate a regular sum of £100 on a monthly basis to kick off this second phase of the project.
- The President of the Lions club in Batticaloa has expressed a wish to come over to the UK and meet up with members of the Lions club in Shrewsbury. Coincidentally Rev. Jeynesan, the Manager of the Orphanages project is also going to be visiting the UK at the same time. Members of the club are very much looking forward to these visits. These are scheduled for the latter part of August 2003.
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June 11th, 2003 Trevor Thevarajah
Report on how £3,500 that was raised towards this appeal was spent.According to Rev. Jeyanesan the first instalment of £3,500 was invested in the Nutritional Feeding Programme run in the Eastern Province. The following centres are being supported at a cost per month of £145 per month per centre:
- St. John’s Nutritional Feeding Centre with 60 children which is being run on the compound of the St. John’s Church in Batticaloa. This is the main church centre from which Rev. Jeyanesan orchestrates all the various projects and which functions as his home-base.
- Kiran NFC, 60 children, Kiran is a village 27 km north from the St. John’s Centre which was affected by the Indian peace keeping force and later by the Sri Lanka army and special task forces. Many people lost their bread winners, and so many children need help here.
- Periyanilavanai Nutritional Feeding Centre has 55 children. Periyanilavanai is a border village between Muslim and Hindu villages and is situated 41 kilometres south from the St. John’s Centre. This Nutritional Feeding Centre is run on a compound together with a church and the Herman’s Girls Home.
These three centres have been running from the February 1st from funds provided by us. At the end of each year, we will be provided with Financial Statements audited by a Chartered Accountant. Monies will be spent solely on these three centres.
The activities going on in the Nutritional Feeding Centres are as follows:
- Feeding: the children often do not get more than once a day food. This program allows them to receive two extra meals a day
- Preventive medicines and vaccinations. The centres do provide medicines and vaccinations as necessary.
- The older children can go to school instead of having to stay at home to take care of the younger ones.
- Nursery education. The children are also receiving some basic nursery education.
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May 20th, 2012 Trevor Thevarajah
Dear Trevor,
I am sorry that I haven’t been able to write to you before. Due to the fact that I was hosting my friend Herman with his friend and was showing him the orphanage that he is supporting, we were busy every day and all my time went into that, so that I could allow Rev. Jeyanesan to attend to urgent matters concerning the running of all the projects under his care. Rev. Jeyanesan had been away for about a month, visiting the US and Canada, so upon his return he had many things to attend to. Rev. Jeyanesan shared with me about his contacts with you and asked me to help him with keeping in contact with you while I am here in Sri Lanka. Read the rest of this entry »
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