Newsletter 29/10/2009
Eliazar T. Rose - XMAS LOVE BUNDLES NEWSLETTER
Greetings from New Hope – India, Click Here to purchase a Love Bundle
I feel greatly honoured that this year, with Maggie sister on holidays we in India can send you the Christmas newsletter. A friend of New Hope Australia has grown in the last year and the number of people you enable us to help has greatly increased. From my contact with people in Australia I have picked up some of your expressions. A few months ago ‘out of the blue’ came this incredible gift from a woman who knew India well, and had met Maggie sister, passed away and left in her Will $10,000. It came at a time when we needed to carry out more cataract eye surgery for rural Tribal women who are totally disadvantaged with loss of vision as their families live at poverty level and there are no social services for such people. With the gift we are also able to manage to care for more children who are mostly orphaned and HIV+
The Australian members worked hard during the year to raise funds in ways that just amazed the children who benefited, and we always appreciate receiving photographs from fund raising to show the children. During the year we are fortunate that an Australian couple Hamish & Chris Turner has helped us to turn our agricultural vegetable project around and make the Community Centre far more self sufficient in vegetables which has become a great children’s activity project. Also Beth Daebritz, Chairperson, New Hope Australia visited in January for Administrative work towards obtaining AusAid recognition.
The Trustees of New Hope Rural Leprosy Trust never lose our vision to help aged leprosy affected people who are now simply too old and too deformed to go begging to survive and what it means to them to be able to receive two good meals a day and a quality of life changed by your gifts of a Bundle of Love – This gift pack simply contains ordinary things, but things they need, a long handled comb for a woman with a deformed ’claw’ hand, and warm blanket for an aged man living in a hut and a made to fit medical sandal.
 In 2009 and 2010 we are also trying to give small Bundles of Love to the aged who come for Cataract eye surgery as they are so poor. Many really just come in ‘rags’ – their situation is so bad. You can imagine what a Bundle of Love means to them. Words will never express the meaning of what happens when so many of you give $20 for this project. What I would like to also share with you is that we have been helping many aged widow Tribal women with small food packs in the villages where we have development projects, this we may have to extend with the fear of drought looming. They too will receive a love bundle if we raise enough to include them.
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The international financial crisis seen in many parts of India, and with the drought fear the prices of essential food items like legumes and rice and wheat flour has risen and we are buying stocks to save money and hedge against inflation. It’s all been possible by the strong sponsorship of children by so many. I know that times are hard for many and it is really amazing that the spirit of people in Australia is so strong with some taking on an additional sponsorship, this is really.
I worked with Michael Avery to update our website and that was a good learning for me too. The cost of postage is getting out of hand and hopefully we can have more people use the website to read the newsletter and to make on line gift payments.. To subscribe and receive emails, please go to our website and you can register on the home page. How the world has changed for us with emails in the office and outside sitting on the steps children waiting for me to discuss the repair of their wheel chairs or Tribal illiterate women coming to talk about Safe Delivery Kits – its all part of a day and all part of your support – Thank you, on behalf of the Trust and those that you enable us to reach out to through your support,
Eliazar T. Rose, Director for NEW HOPE Rural Leprosy Trust
To order more Love Bundles please contact Paula at pauladay58@hotmail.com payment can be made by PayPal on our website or write to us PO Box 977 INNALOO CITY 6918 with cheque or credit card details. Love Bundle cards are a terrific Christmas present to friends and relative
P.S. A beautiful quote from Mother Teresa.
“I see God in every human being. When I wash the Leper’s wounds, I feel as if I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?”
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'Never doubt that a small group of dedicated people,
can change a small part of the world.'
Maggie Sister, New Hope Australia.
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