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
A young girl called Mani, joined the Home She was nine years old, and deaf and dumb. Because she could not hear, she had never learned to speak. She could make sounds, and sometimes one could just make out very simple words. Even then, one needed to have an idea of what she was trying to say.
In August 2002, a charity representative spent his summer vacation with the children at the orphanage. Whilst he was with her he began to feel sure that she could hear something.
He found that when he put a small tape recorder close to her ear, she showed signs of being able to hear something.
Arrangements were made to take Mani to the ENT department at hospital for a consultation and hearing test. We were thrilled to learn that Mani was indeed not completely deaf.
She was described as suffering from ‘bilateral S.N. profound hearing loss with delayed speech development.’ The recommendations were that she was given strong hearing aids, and intensive speech and language stimulation.
Hearing equipment was duly purchased for Mani, and she is beginning to learn to speak.
See Mani's story in our sketch history
