Welcome to Childrens Homes in India Trust

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Welcome to Childrens Homes in India Trust
Charity registration number 1112048 www.chitonli
ne.co.uk email info_at_chitonline.co.uk 18
Woolley Drive, Bradford on Avon BA15 1AU
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India, with a population of 1.2 billion people,
is the largest democracy in the world. Part of
the British Empire for 150 years, India was
granted independence in 1947. It later became a
republic, but stayed in the Commonwealth. This
picture shows Bapatla, near the coast of Andhra
Pradesh, a State only formed in 1956 for the 76
million Telugu-speaking people. Missionaries
from the UK were active in this area, setting up
a leper colony. The Salvation Army still runs a
hospital.
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In recent years the standard of living in the
cities has risen. The children in our homes
exhibit a great yearning for learning. Although
universities are filled with hard-working
students, prosperity is not widespread. 250
million people in India still live on less than
50p a day, many in remote little villages.
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Close-up satellite picture shows the Bapatla
campus with the big sandy playground, offices,
sick bays, dispensary, living quarters, courtyard
and dining room/dormitory (in yellow), school
(blue) and dairy (red).
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A combination of malnutrition and dirty water can
lead to dysentery, dehydration and early death.
11 million children are abandoned in India every
year. 90 of them girls.

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This 6-month-old baby is the younger of twins.
Such children, if born of poor mothers, seldom
survive. Proper nutrition for the mother is a
much better answer than bottle-feeding the baby,
using milk powder mixed with dirty water.
Breaking the cycle of poverty needs a long-term
solution. It is education.
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Babu and Hepsy built their first Childrens Home
at Bapatla in 1983, shortly after meeting George
Kent. Support from the UK started and the work
rapidly grew.
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• Nine years ago Glory was a forlorn little girl in
  an unhappy family no father and not enough to
  eat.

• Four years ago Santha Kumari lived with her
  grandparents after her father died of cancer when
  she was three.

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At the Bapatla Home today, Glory, now sixteen,
has Santha Kumari under her wing
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Given these hair clips on her birthday, Santhas
response was to go and borrow a suitable dress
from her friend and come back for a photo shoot.
Quite the budding model!
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Hennas life expectancy was so low, Babu and
Hepsy broke the rules and took her in, even
though she was only three years old.A man with
four sons had bought her for 2.50 but his wife
had starved her and burnt her fingers.
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Ten years later, this is Henna with Aunty Hepsy
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A year later it has become clear that
Henna is a very promising pupil,
intelligent as well as graceful. She is now
attending an English- medium school to improve
her spoken English. She is so much part of the
family that she will probably end up on the staff
of the home. What a transformation!
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In October, thousands of mosquitoes breed in the
nearby paddi fields, making life a misery.A
sample door of wire mosquito netting was made as
a trial. It was too easily damaged.We want to
install triple-panel mosquito curtains.We need
50 at a cost of 12 each.
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At the Bapatla home the price of bottle-gas
became very high and hard to obtain.We found
the cooks burning tree roots. Chopping down live
trees in India is illegal. We immediately bought
and installed solar water-heaters.
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These 20-litre pressure cookers are made in
India. The time taken to cook dhal is reduced
from 40 minutes to 8.
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These two remarkably cheap thermo-syphonic solar
units, 100 and 200 litre capacity, were ordered
and delivered within 3 days. They were soon
producing very hot water for boiling the rice
at Nidamarru. More are now fitted at the
Bapatla Complex.
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George (chairman) running the water hot before
filling the giant rice pan. He then
conducted a little ceremony thanking God
for His bountiful provision of free heat and
suggested warning signs be put up in
Telugu/English.
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Half the CHIT budget is spent on food rice,
cooked without salt, dhal (lentil curry), eggs
and fruit. Inflation has increased their food
costs by 2,200 this year.
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The boys and girls always eat separately, using
the fingers of the right hand
only, for reasons of hygiene. They drink
butter-milk after the meal.
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Four new buffalo with calves have joined the
buffalo herd, each giving five litres of super
creamy milk every day. Much better than milk
bought in, which is often skimmed and
diluted. We now have six water buffalo in milk
and seven in calf.
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This happy herdsman and his dairy-maid wife will
be busy. Water buffalo normally have 2 baths a
day and 3 in summer! The temperature goes up to
40 degrees Celsius
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This is the main building at the Bapatla site.
60 senior girls housemother live upstairs.
Below there are 30 young girls staff quarters.
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The staff at the Bapatla Home. These ladies are
not well paid, but are happy to have somewhere
safe to live all the year round, with their
children.
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• Our children under 16 go to the Elizabeth Barrie
  High School, near to the home, built in 1997 and
  improved with a Rotary Grant in 2000.
• Education is a key element in breaking the cycle
  of poverty. In 2006 with help from generous
  donors CHIT increased the number of teachers and
  improved salaries to acceptable levels. Results
  are remarkably good, partly due to having their
  homework supervised. Children without uniforms
  are those accepted free from poor local families.

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Mary Salome, Headteacher. She kept the school
going extremely well during a period of financial
stringency. She is quite strict and
the children are well-behaved.
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Although much teaching is still by rote,
interestingly, they favour small group work when
appropriate. We are introducing white boards and
would like to increase funding for the school
note the empty bookcases.
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Claire Brown, visiting TEFL teacher, has the
children delighted with her artwork. She and
Stuart stayed for six weeks.They are visiting
again to help improve the quality of the
teaching. Could you help in this way?
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We can get the white boards made in India but the
special pens are not available and are a sensible
gift for supporters to send as presents at
Christmas time
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Trustee Pauline busy with a group of children,
teaching craft work. She also distributed Bibles
and Why Jesus? booklets in Telugu and English.
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New boys toilet block. This building was
elevated and a large septic tank built
underneath. On sandy soil, good foundations are
very expensive. A 35,000 litre water-tank is
being erected on the roof to store the ground
water, pumped from a borehole.
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Old Sickbay New Nurse
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Nurses quarters, dispensary, sickbays and
toilets, with new offices upstairs, just
finished. We still need funds for equipment and
medicine.
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Morning Assembly at Bapatla Home. There is an act
of worship every day.
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Boys help the dhobi (Hindi for washerwoman).The
introduction of hot water has significantly
reduced the cost of detergents.
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Boys put new badminton racquets into early and
enthusiastic use! More cricket equipment is
needed.
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The girls excel at skipping routines.
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Waiting for supper in the courtyard.
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A picture of happiness
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These boys are at 6th form college, something
that we are proud to say has become the norm for
our school leavers.
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These 8 girls are being followed by 24 more, all
training to be nurses
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International Team of Trustees meet together for
a whole day every January.
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Rajasekhara Babu and Hepsybah, the Christian
founding family.
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George brings gifts to three children from
their sponsor
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An Indian bus is never full 165 on board.
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You dont believe me?
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For many a first taste of the sea. It is warm!
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Two happy sisters, one from each Home.
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Seaside souvenirs
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Most people go to the beach to work!
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For our children it was home for a treat!
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Peace at the end of a busy day
Peace at eventide
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Goodbye from CHIT!
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Mother Theresa of Calcutta

• In this life we cannot do great things for God.
  We can only do small things with great love.

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How can you help?
Become a regular sponsor

• 10 a month feeds a hungry child
• 210 supports a child for a year.
• 500 pays a teachers annual salary
• 1,000 makes you a benefactor and sees a student
  right through university.

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