by Lynda Chugg | Jul 4, 2021 | News, Reports and Photos
ELANGO DINESH has been with Grail Trust since he was a small boy aged 9 or 10, when he studied at VI Standard. His parents had both died and Elango was subsequently cared for by his uncle. A very bright boy, he won a scholarship place to King’s School, the...
by Lynda Chugg | May 30, 2021 | News, Reports and Photos
One of our Indian trustees, Mr Gregory Retnaraj writes: “Though the number of persons affected by Covid 19 in India has come down considerably,(from 4 lakh plus to about 1,75,000 today), the situation in Tamil Nadu is not very encouraging. In fact, Tamil Nadu is...
by Lynda Chugg | Mar 25, 2021 | Chairman's Blog
From Neil Fairlamb, Chairman of Grail Trust (UK): We were informed today (25th March, 2021) by our Indian partner trustees that schools are once again closed in our area of Tamil Nadu, following a sharp increase in Covid cases. Nationally there were 8,000 cases a day...
by Lynda Chugg | Jan 21, 2021 | News, Reports and Photos
V Viswa is the youngest of three children. His mother, Chithra, is in a desperate situation as she is a widow with no income apart from the Grail Trust’s support for Viswa. Almost a year ago, her husband committed suicide by drinking poison. In 2016 the...
by Lynda Chugg | Jan 20, 2021 | News, Reports and Photos
G Keerthana is 12 years old and lives with her mother, Thurgai Ammal. Keerthana is an only child. She attends the Hindu Middle School in Mavadi, studying at eight standard. As with S Mugila, the teachers urged the Grail Trust to help Keethana during Chairman Neil...
by Lynda Chugg | Jan 13, 2021 | News, Reports and Photos
S Mugila was nine years old on 16th December. In 2019, just five weeks before her eighth birthday, her father was killed in “an accident”. At time of writing, I do not know what sort of accident it was, but I suspect it was a road traffic accident. A...
by Lynda Chugg | Dec 24, 2020 | Newsletters
GT Christmas Newsletter 2020 The Grail Trust trustees of India and the UK wish all our friends and supporters a very happy, healthy and safe Christmas.
by Lynda Chugg | Oct 26, 2020 | News, Reports and Photos
Meet S Karthika – the fifth of our new Grail Trust children. It’s not been the best of years for S Karthika. Her father died in July and of course, due to the pandemic, there has been no school either. In normal times, she attends the Hindu Middle School...
by Lynda Chugg | Oct 21, 2020 | News, Reports and Photos
Welcome to A Nishanthi. Nishanthi will be 11 years old on Monday 26th October – Happy birthday Nishanthi. She is studying in VI Standard at the Hindu Middle School in Mavadi. Neil Fairlamb and Lynda Chugg visited this school in January. They were most...
