Friday, July 19, 2019

About my father’s ‘Vardhanthi’, amongst orphan children.









Today, 19th July is my father’s ‘Vardhanthi’ (death anniversary) according to the Telugu almanac. We started the day by sponsoring breakfast for 110 orphan children at ‘THARA’ – A home for children found on the streets.
It was a heartwarming experience for us, and the children, some of them very young. The children were obviously happy to see us; hopefully, they may have imagined their parents in us, their real parents whom they have never known. They prayed for my father and us and the society in general before the commencement of breakfast. They were served Upma, Paratha and Dal and we personally handed over Biscuits to all children. After breakfast, we stayed back and waited until some children left for their schools. In the attached video you can see how happy we and the children are as they were bidding goodbye.
May God bless these children richly with a very happy and healthy life now and in future and bless them with good careers, families and peace and prosperity. And may they be caring and responsible for the downtrodden in society.
And may God bless Father Jose Mathew SJ, Director of THARA, a very kind and soft-spoken person who established this institution in 2002 and is operating it successfully.  We are very grateful to him for giving us this opportunity to observe my father’s Vardhanthi amidst so many children.
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