by Lynda Chugg | Oct 19, 2020 | News, Reports and Photos
Ajay Ponraj is studying at VI Standard in TDTA (Tirunelveli Diocese Trust Association) Middle School, Kannanallor. He is ten years old. He has a brother just a year older. When Ajay was six, his father committed suicide. In 2016, the Suicide Death Rate (SDR) in...
by Lynda Chugg | Oct 18, 2020 | News, Reports and Photos
C Akshaya Varshini is eight years old. She is the elder of three sisters, the youngest of which is just a baby, called Rithika. Akshaya is studying in IV Standard at the Government Primary School in Kandigaiperi, where her sister Rohitha is in II Standard. ...
by Lynda Chugg | Oct 17, 2020 | News, Reports and Photos
Ashik Raja is six years old. He attends the Government Primary School in Nallangulam, where he is studying II Standard. His older sister, Ashika, is in III Standard at the same school and his younger sister, Anshika, is in the nursery class there. His mother, Malar,...
by Lynda Chugg | Oct 13, 2020 | News, Reports and Photos
T From this week the Grail Trust will be supporting an extra 12 children, 4 boys and 8 girls, aged between 6 and 13. Their individual situations are desperate: some have no income at all, so the Grail Trust monthly allowance is quite literally, a lifeline. The town...
by Lynda Chugg | Aug 10, 2020 | News, Reports and Photos
Both the Grail Trust children who had appeared in Higher Secondary School final examinations (the equivalent of our ‘A’ Levels) in the academic year 2019-2020 have passed – and passed with flying colours! V NITHYA SRIDEVI has scored 454 out of 600...
by Lynda Chugg | Aug 9, 2020 | News, Reports and Photos
Announcement by Rev Neil Fairlamb, Chairman, Grail Trust (UK) Grail Trust (UK) is delighted and honoured to announce new Patrons of the charity: Dr Max Gibbs, and Mr and Mrs Gordon and Janice Rhodes. Both live in North Wales, where our charity began, though we now...
by Lynda Chugg | Aug 7, 2020 | News, Reports and Photos
With the Covid-19 situation in India in general and in this part of Tamil Nadu in particular showing no signs of improvement, Schools and Colleges continue to remain closed and the exact date of reopening of the colleges and schools is still not known. Therefore, the...
by Lynda Chugg | Jul 13, 2020 | Chairman's Blog, Newsletters
GT Newsletter July 2020
by Lynda Chugg | Jun 19, 2020 | News, Reports and Photos
As you may have read in the news, the situation for those living in poverty in India has been desperate. To help our children’s families, Grail Trust has increased the monthly allowance from 800 rupees (Rs) to Rs 1000 – equating to £10.61 at today’s...
