Feb – 2025 We added another village tuition program for 45 children in South India in February 2025. We now have 27 tutors every school day helping over 500 children. We purchased and installed solar panels in a rural school that had no electricity. That allowed them to add lights, fans, a computer and a large television …
We were in South India in March and April going door to door to help families who lost their homes from flooding. The water had receeded so low that an old bridge across the river was now above water so we could get there (see photo). We handed out double steel beds, propane stoves and …
Very heavy rains pounded our South India project area with severe flooding and more than 100 people died. The bridge we use to get to the project from the airport lost 200 feet in the middle, washed away by river water above the bridge. The railway lines were broken and partially underwater. Many water and …
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 …
Feb – 2022 Last newsletter we mentioned that three new villages wanted our afterschool tutoring program that we started in a village near our Children’s Home many years ago. Two villages have been added on a daily basis. First the 9-12th grade students started on 1 September then all the students from 1st grade onward …
SCHOOL OPENS IN MAHARASHTRA, INDIA a TOUCH OF LOVE FOUNDATION NEWS We have waited 22 months to tell you this: normal school opened in all the schools for the first time since 26 March 2020. In Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra we have been supplying tutors and teachers for outdoor teaching hoping the pandemic would lessen …