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Mercy Home - Angel Nagar
This project is to create a Day School where local children can be sent
for education with the hope of eventually being main streamed into the
local society. Currently there are approximately 25 children living at
home with no chance of any advancement. They are completely dependant
on their families and have limited choices once their parents pass.
They either end up in a facility like our Annaikarai home if they are
lucky or on the streets. In cooperation with the Central and local
government in India we are building this school. The local Catholic
Diocese has donated the land and the government has agreed to pay the
on-going teachers salaries and maintenance if we can provide the
building. The School will have an 8 to one ratio of students to
teachers and will have physical and speech therapy rooms. The school
itself will open on December 3, 2010. They will start in
temporary quarters provided by JACID and St Anthony’s College. Once the
building is competed they will move into the permanent school.
The goal of this project is to construct an education facility in order to teach these local special needs children to become productive members of the local villages, they will be taught how to read, write, and to care for themselves. They will be bused from the villages each day and returned home in the afternoon.
October 2010. Blueprints have been approved and
the ground has been cleared.
Ceremonial first brick is laid. Agreements are reached with government officials to maintain on going support. Local contractors are awarded work and the construction begins.
August 2011. Construction is well under way. Foundations are all in including support pilings. Walls are going up and the scaffolding is being put into place to start the concrete roof.
For more information on the progress
contact us.