Kathleen
Keegel Children’s Fund
Hi Everyone!
Welcome to the Easter Edition
of the 2009 KKCF Newsletter. It’s filled with heaps of exciting news about our
latest projects, upcoming events, travelers' tales to our orphanage in Sri
Lanka and pictures of our recent Valentines Dinner Dance in Melbourne. Unfortunately
it’s been a sad start to the year and our hearts go out to all
Orphanage Update
We
now have six children in our care (one 10 yr old girl Gayathri and five boys -
12 yr old Sajee, 10 yr old Paul, 10 yr old Charmara, 7 yr old Siva kumara and 5
yr old Tharaka). Tharaka has a heart
condition and is under medical care. The children enjoy being together and have
set-tled in quickly to their new home.
They go to the local schools by bus and are learning English well.
Currently
up to 60 chil-
Ask Olly
Q. Olly, can you tell us about your helpers at the orphanage?
A. We have several paid staff at the orphanage
helping with administra-tion, cooking and looking after the children as well
other general work on the five acre property. We also have volunteers visiting
on occasion. It’s
dren
and mature stu-dents visit the orphanage for English classes each week. We are refurbish-ing the large rooms
un-derneath the dormitory which can be used as a multi-purpose area for dining,
teaching and other varied activities.
Another
project we are working on is to create a computer facility which will be used
to train the local youth in computer skills.
We
currently have 25 chickens laying eggs
always
great to have visi-tors helping out and see-ing what life at an or-phanage can
be like.
Interested
in finding out about Olly’s life in Sri Lanka?
Email your questions to
the people affected by the bushfires in
Victoria. We wish all our support-ers a safe and happy Easter holiday and hope
you enjoy the chocolate eggs that go with it!
which we use and sell to the local
community. We also have a cow living on
the property.
A fence is being con-structed to secure
the property – see Buy a Block on the last page for more details on
this.
