Thursday, 12 May 2011

Visit to Compassion India office and Training Session 2

On Wednesday afternoon we were able to visit the Compassion India office, where we met Marshall Caesar (Compassion India's Tours and Visits Specialist), who was able to show us around and introduce us to the rest of the team.  Compassion is a Christian child sponsorship charity which began working in India in 1968. Currently more than 114,100 sponsored children participate in 478 child development centres across India with 28 projects located in the Chennai area.  For more information on Compassion, please visit http://www.compassionuk.org/.

After leaving the Compassion office we visited Madras YMCA and met Rev. Dr. Samuel Sudhakar, who presented us each with a copy of his book 'My Daily Strength'.  We then visited the Ahava Childrens Home, which is an orphanage run by one of our partner organisations, The Dr John Joseph Foundation.  The Ahava home currently houses six children on a full time basis and also supports another ten children with educational fees.  The home is run by Churchill Joseph, who has been our guide during our time here and has looked after us extremely well.  For more information on the home and the work of the Dr John Joseph Foundation, please visit www.drjohnjosephfoundation.org.

This morning we held our second training session, which again went successfully despite the heat.  It seems to be getting hotter every day!  The focus of the session was shooting, with Paul demonstrating his own 'Zamora-esque' finishing techniques to a crowd of bemused locals.  He was carried off shortly afterwards with heat exhaustion.  Rob finished he session off with a talk about keeping our eyes focussed on God.  This evening's plan is to go along to see an IPL game, with the Chennai Super Kings playing the Dehli Daredevils.

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