Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year

Whispering Hope takes immense pleasure in wishing you and your families a fantastic Christmas and a very Happy New Year.  May the blessed Infant shower His magnanimous blessings on each of you.

Whew! Thats a full load!

'Wow' wouldn't even be enough to express my happiness at the bounty received for my charity programs.  This time it was soft drinks, and a whole load of toiletries.  A big Thank You goes out to the angels who contributed towards this bounty - Divya Vigneswaran from Chennai and Beliz Meran from Turkey. 

Clap hands for the Ladies!

When you have music in your name, you would want to ensure that all those around you dance and sing!  And Whispering Hope has just that in two of its sponsors!  Sangeeta Sakariya from the US and Sangeeta Veena from Chennai - these beautiful ladies sponsored the little treats for our Christmas program in Chennai - a variety of biscuits, sweeties, crispy chips - fun things for the little ones who want to dance with joy at receiving these goodies.  Pics posted in the album!

Thank you SANGEETAs!!

Gracious Thanks

Our gracious thanks go out to Mahalakshmi Kannan & Lakshminarayan, P. Balasubramaniam, David & Mary Roberts, Maria & Savio DMello - all from Mumbai, Biju & Sudha Damodaran from Muscat, for their valuable contributions to help our Christmas programs in Andhra Pradesh be a mighty success. 

Thanks to you guys, Whispering Hope lived up to its name of spreading miles and miles of smiles.

May the Almighty God bless each of them and their families with abundant good health, happiness and prosperity.

And now its for the BOYS!

After the girls, we went along to visit the boys at the St. Mary's High School, Pratipadu, Tadepalligudem, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh.  Much fun was had as you can see from the photos in the album.  A very big Thank you goes out to Rev. Fr. Sebastian, Rev. Fr. Steven, and Rev. Fr. Arputham for giving Whispering Hope this opportunity to spread a mile of smiles. 

Rev. Fr. Sebastian can be contacted on +91 8106030778.

Time for the Girls!

After the boys, we now visited the young girls (and a few boys) at the Carmel Convent, Chebrol, West Godavari District in Andhra Pradesh. Cake, Chicken Puffs, and Fried Chicken were distributed to the hungry little mites.  A colourful hand towel was given to our little friends as a keepsake. A short and sweet treat and a good time was had by all of us. Photos uploaded for your viewing pleasure.

Rev. Sr. Resin, the Superior can be contacted at the Convent on +91 8818 251370 - during school hours only.

A Christmas Starter at the Infant Jesus Boys Home, Guntur

The 5th of December dawned bright and sunny and Whispering Hope got ready for the first of its Christmas programs.  There are 45 boys at the Infant Jesus Boys Home in Guntur and an evening of fun, games, songs and dance was planned. 

The program started off with the distribution of fruit cake and Sprite, early in the evening.  Dr. Nikhil gave the boys an interesting talk on personal hygiene and this was much appreciated by the boys.  Mrs. Sheela joined us and distributed colourful examination boards to the children.  Mr. Suresh with his guitar taught the boys some beautiful carols and they joined in with much gusto. 

In between the program, lucky numbers were called out and small prizes were distributed to the children; the Christmas gift itself being a colourful hand towel for each of the boys.  And finally the moment they were all waiting for - a festive dinner. Vegetable burgers and fried chicken provided by Castle Crunch, Guntur - who gave us a big discount on the price; this was followed by a flavoured rice, the evergreen gongura and yogurt raita. 

Whispering Hope lived up to its name by bringing in a mile of smiles. Photographs have been put in the album alongside.

Rev. Fr. Fatima Maria Reddy can be contacted on +91 9848018577.