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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