We transitioned these last few months from an emergency relief organization during the pandemic to our usual education and relief of poverty agenda. In South India we added 119 more children to our tutoring village programs, now helping 217 students seven days a week. For two years in the India state of Tamil Nadu they only had television classes for one hour a day so students have fallen well behind their assumed curriculum. We have responded to the need by increasing resources to get students back to grade level. Now we tutor in six different villages with 14 teachers every day in Tamil Nadu, not every school day as we did previously. The task is daunting to make up for that much time but we are encouraged by the enthusiasm as more and more children are showing up for tutoring. In the last month we had to add three more teachers to handle the added attendance. Some schools are so poor the school teachers asked us for school supplies. That is in addition to providing the after school tutoring program for their students. We now have three more villages on a waiting list who have asked for help.
