GRACE THIRD WORLD FUNDGTWF is providing a new electricity generator for the Home which will enable power to be available on site during the regular scheduled cuts! [Aug-08]
Following the death of Rev Else in May, the charity committee has elected Mr Ray Richardson of Peel, Isle of Man to take on the leadership role of GTWF. [Jul-08]
Whilst in the island to speak at Rev Elses's funeral, Grace Childrens Home Manager Timothy Babu has enjoyed Manx hospitality with us and taken away much to tell the children back in India! [Jun-08] .
With sadness we announce the death of our founder and chairman Rev Matthew F Else who passed away on 18 May 2008. Please bear with us while we update the web site. The work continues. [May-08]
Old News...
New arrival at the GCH
Some of the young lads living in the Grace Children Home have been selected to join the pool for the Andhra Pradesh state basketball team!
Buy a buffalo!
Presentations around the UK
Successful operation in Chennai
A big thankyou to AFD Software of Ramsey, Peel Charity Shop, Gaiety Theatre, Manx Radio, the Isle of Man Government, Blythswood Care and the many churches around the UK who continue to contribute to the work in India.
-- Grace Third World Fund
On the left you can see the cathedral city of Peel in the Isle of Man where the story of our work in India first started.
Although the charity was officially constituted in 1998, things really started in 1996 when two of the future GTWF trustees visited India and saw the plight of one particular boy, Muddada Raju.
Since that time, GTWF has registered as an official Isle of Man charitable organisation and has raised many tens of thousands of pounds for needy causes in the third world.
GTWF offers help and hope for scores of children in India, well below the poverty line which applies to children in the UK. We offer a safe and secure home environment for orphans whom have previously begged or hawked goods at railway stations or been abandoned due to family difficulties or tribal disputes.
We also offer the chance of having life-saving or life-changing surgery to children whose families could never pay for it themselves on their India wages.
GTWF works differently to many larger charities. Firstly we don't just pass funds to large unaccountable bureaucracies in the location of need. We work through long-standing relationships with small groups of trusted individuals who are based actually on the ground at the point of need.
Secondly all costs relating to our travelling expenses incurred in the line of GTWF business are borne by the trustees and not by donated funds, except for those occasions where considerate benefactors have given monies specifically for that purpose.
Thirdly the administrative and other manhours carried out by the trustees are entirely voluntary so that very few costs are charged back to the charity itself. When you give a pound to GTWF for a specific cause or project that whole pound goes out to the point of need in India.
Since its inception Grace Third World Fund has paid for surgery for 16 children. 12 have had life-changing orthopaedic operations, and 4 have had life-saving cardiac operations. Details of these children are supplied in the PDF download file below.
A lot of water has passed underneath the bridge since the pioneering days of the mid to late '90s. Our Secretary has painstakingly put together a chronological summary of our activities to date. Download the PDF by clicking here. You may require free Adobe Reader or Acrobat to view this file. Click on the link below to go to the Adobe download web site.
