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Handi-Care Intl.
A CANADIAN REGISTERED
CHARITY DEDICATED TO HELPING THE NEEDY
Tel: 416 913 6555
E-mail:
handicare@rogers.com and
sulokris@rogers.com
Website:
www.handicareintl.org
E - Newsletter 37: November, 2005 |
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SEASONS GREETINGS To all our friends and supporters
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Mr. Sankara Raman
of Amar Seva Sangam wins the
2005 Helen Keller Award instituted by the National Centre for
Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP). He will receive
the award on Dec. 2nd at
Sankara Raman takes
this opportunity to convey his heartfelt gratitude to all HCI donors who
have made a difference in the lives and livelihoods of several disabled
youth. This award pertains to training and procuring employment for
disabled youth who otherwise would be deprived of a decent life. HCI
takes pride in announcing that you have sponsored 25 such youth in 2005,
20 in 2004 & 2003. See the section below on Sponsor A Youth.
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You
have made a difference in the life of a child.
Some of you are
already
Life-Time Sponsors of children.
School and
medical reports from June 2005 are posted on the web site. Please click
Life-Time to view your
sponsored child and their progress.
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You have also
sponsored the education
of
27 children at
Maithri
and rehab of
28 mentally challenged children at
Nesam.
Please click the highlighted words above to view details.
This
has been done every year for the past 4 years from your general
donations.
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You have so far
contributed to support 140 days of a year under the
Meal For A Day
program. As per our promise the disabled children have been receiving
the feeding every year on the date chosen by you. Please
see the list
here.
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(Please click above for program details)
With less than $2 (Canadian) per day, you can sponsor a disabled youth
to be trained and made self-reliant for life.
Disabled high school graduates between the ages 18 and 25 are carefully
chosen based on their
individual abilities
and opportunities and given
vocational training in Computers, Mechanical repairs, Typing,
Data Entry, Sewing, Crafts and so on.
With your sponsorship,
disabled youth can “stand on their own feet” and go on to live a
successful life. For example:
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Ms.
Gomathy is now working as a Telephone Operator.
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Mr.
Udayakumar is working in Tirunelveli in a Civil construction company.
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Ms.
Arunmozhi is now working as a computer operator near Srivilliputhur.
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Ms.
Samsath Begum is now employed as a Data Entry Operator in
Click on
success stories to see more
examples.
Email or call us today
to support one youth under this program. You just need $600 (Canadian
or $495 US) for a full year of training including boarding & lodging.
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Placement of Volunteers
During this year, ten volunteers worked on Handi-care International
Projects. Of the ten, four were medical students from
Volunteers benefit immensely from the placement in terms of work
experience, sense of accomplishment in directly helping the disabled and
the experience of traveling and learning.
Please click on
volunteer placements to see a
sampling of the comments and photographs from the 2005 cadre of
volunteers and to see how you or someone known to you can apply for
volunteer placement in 2006.
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Handi-Care’s Board
The following volunteers were appointed to the Board on October 16,
2005.
Pancha Sankaran, President
Sulochana Krishnamurthy, Vice President
Srini B. Srinivasan, Secretary
Sundra Rajan, Treasurer
Arun Luthra, Assistant Treasurer
Meena Suppiah, Director
Kumar Subramanian, Director
Usha Mathivanan, Director
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