Already last August I started this blog. The title and the flying time picture were already in place.
Now it is already December and I have a ticket to fly to India in about 2 weeks.
And, surprise attack, the title was extended with ‘and my very first fundraising ever’.
I expect to arrive in Tiruvannamalai by mid-January. Looking forward to it.
Now I go make the habitual picture selection of meeting Sindhu again.
There were quite some stories to tell, but by now it is a bit too long ago to go into them in full detail. Let the pictures speak for themselves.
A nice picture to start with, is the May 2015 group photo of the “Last weekend we took all our project children to Chennai one amusement park, as one day tour, that was nice, we all enjoyed the trip.”:
By the way, the Shanti Children Project is growing and can use our support:
http://shantichildrenproject.org/how-to-help/
Recently it happened that I did something usefull for a neighbouring family and when they asked if I wanted to have something for it, instead of the habitual ‘no it’s okay like this’ I expressed the thought that had crossed my mind:
“what about €100 for a children project in India”.
The suggestion was heartily welcomed.
Later the idea came up to ask all of you, neighbours, friends and followers, to see if it suits you to also put in some help in the form of money.
So:
When you want to donate some cash money, I will happily receive it from you.
Or you can, if you want, transfer some money to my bank account
NL81 ABNA 0457 2770 84 (hans van der gugten),
labelling the money as ‘donation for Shanti Children Project’.
[De BIC of ABN AMRO is ABNANL2A].
I am sure that Kumar will find a way to visualize in a kind of certificate with all our names on it, the fact that our donations have reached destiny.
Practically: after having arrived in Tiruvannamalai I will withdraw the donations from an ATM and make our combined donation in cash Indian Rupees .
At the end of this blog I will provide some links to blogs of earlier meetings with Sindhu.
Now the pictures of our last meetings in Januari 2015.
The story of how Sindhu and I met for the first time is here:
Sindhu in pics and some words
https://hansvandergugten.nl/?p=1666
Here are the pictures + stories of two years ago:
Meetings with Sindhu in Tiruvannamalai, 2013/2014
https://hansvandergugten.nl/?p=3840
In Dutch:
Voor wie liever nederlands leest twee blogs met ook een stukje over Sindhu:
Aan deze en gene over ditjes en datjes
https://hansvandergugten.nl/?p=2887
Kabar Angin en Sindhu
https://hansvandergugten.nl/?p=1057