Balamma Satrum Home for the Needy Fr Jeff's Journal - Week Two 7th -10th October 2012 Trying to cope with extreme heat is difficult for a healthy person to survive in this area of South India, but for someone who…
Balamma Satrum Home for the Needy Fr Jeff's Journal - Week Two 29th September - 7th October 2012 As Mary Skaag and I have travelled around the surrounding area within a fifty mile radius of the village, we have realised…
Balamma Satrum Home for the Needy Fr Jeff's Journal - Week One 24th September - 1st October 2012 This is my fifth visit to India and the excitement of what lies before me is ever present on my mind. The…
Some of the children are the sons and daughters of the widows that are helping us. We also have children from the poorest backgrounds and we also have orphans. Each child is given accommodation, bed with mosquito net and three…
Jayapaul's Family Jayapaul Nandipogo was married with four children. He was trying to feed his family by working for daily labour in the field. Jayapaul sustained an accident while working which caused his leg to go gangrenous. He became so…
Shindi In the year 2005 Fr. Sarveswara, Fr. Jeff and Mary were attending the new government hospital in Kadapa. In the hospital grounds, they found a man who had been left to die. He had been left alone for several…
January First trip to India with Bill and Pamela. Click here to read what Bill had to say about this trip. Jake's second trip to India March Annual Sponsored Walk in Coventry May / June Coffee Morning with Margaret and…
Balamma Satram at Holy Family Home for the Needy is a haven for the lost and forgotten people who are found on the streets around Kadapa, A.P. South India. They are mentally and physically challenged, they are elderly, frail and sometimes…
WE MEET JESUS FACE TO FACE EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY IN INDIA Mary Skaag and Natalie Layng, Parishioners of Holy Family, Coventry report on their recent trip to India where they visited projects funded by money raised in Holy…
January Mary, Fr Jeff Dodds and Hannah and Emily Green visited the project in India. Both Sixth Form students at St Thomas More RC School in Blaydon, Hannah and Emily used the experience as part of their Duke of Edinburgh…