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 | 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...
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,...
