OYA Blog

We have just returned from a visit to our schools and orphanage in India. As we travelled around the slums in the quarry districts of Bangalore – where Mum and Dad work in the quarries breaking up the rock and granite, earning a dollar a day; Dad planting explosives to break up the rock, with his babies and children next to him – it made us very grateful that we live in a country of such prosperity.

While in India we were privileged to open another school for kindergarten children, taking in 100 children from the quarry district. Our current school for primary and high school children has 600 pupils. The children attending our schools are all underprivileged, quarry children from the slums of Bangalore. We currently have 19 children now ready to go into university and college.

It costs around A$1000 per annum to put a child through university in India.

At this time of Christmas and in the spirit of giving, you may be moved to sponsor a child. In doing so you will be providing them with the opportunity of an education through school or university. Visit www.oya.com.au for more information. All donations are tax deductible.

We would like to wish all of our clients a very happy Christmas and a prosperous new year.

Claire

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