Spicy Sri-Lankan curry on the Costa

Guess what? Yes another curry night. This time in Spain on the Costa del Sol.

60 guests and 9 workers were fed with yet another selection of curries that cannot be bought on this costa. Young Hope received an amazing profit of 1300 euro which will be taken out on the trip that Suzie, Priya and team have planned for July 2007. Sister Arul has requested some more bikes for the children and we will now able to purchase at least 10 bikes. Each bike costs around 100 pounds as they are imported into the Island.



We will also be looking into some self help projects to get some of these families into work. We have asked one family to make 300 coconut spoons with wooden handles. We plan to buy these items and sell them to you our supporters and create some employment.

Finally a huge thank you to everyone who helped to make this evening a success.

Suzie

Young Hope Trip to Sri-Lanka

As some of you may know a team of us are going out to Sri-Lanka this summer to work with the Young Hope projects. We would really value your prayers and there are a couple of practical things you can also do to help.

The team going is Alun, Donna and Naomi, my mum, dad and sister and myself and James. The whole team will be out there from 21st July – 10th August however my mum, sister and myself will be there from 12th July. We plan to spend about a week in Trincomalee working with the Young Hope project and the children up there. The idea is to spend time with them, show them our love and have some fun! We aim to take equipment up with us so we can have a sports day with them (they love cricket out there), take them on picnics, do some art/craft activities etc… We also want to see what practical ways we can help both now and in the future, a new building for residential care has just been built and us likely to need a lot of decorating and furnishing. This is an initial trip and the hope is to build on it in the future, with other teams going out.

The nuns up there have also asked that we spend some time teaching them about the Holy Spirit – which is very exciting, so we shall be doing that. We have a copy of the Alpha DVDS donated from HTB to take with us.

We also plan to visit Galle, down the South of the country where we have previously supported 2 communities with cooking utensils, sewing machine projects, fishing nets and generally helping them get back on their feet. This area is now doing much better so it will be good to see how things have progressed.

We are taking out all the money we have raised from a number of fund raising events that have gone on over the past 6 months. We want to spend the money out there to help the economy and also money goes a lot further out there than over here!

So how can you help?

Practical Ways:
Donate any small cuddly toys you may no longer need.
Creative people – some ideas and plans of craft/art activities we can do with the children would be great.
Any ideas of fun things to do with a crowd of children who don’t speak much English would also be great.
If you have Christian CD’s or easy to read books that may be good to give away then we’d love to see them!
Donations of money are of course always brilliant as well.

Prayer Requests:
For safe travel and good health there, back and all around the country.
At present Trincomalee has slipped out of peace talks and some fighting has restarted. We would value prayer that when we go out we are able to safely get up to Trincomalee and have Gods protection on us.
For wisdom on the best ways to use the money donated.
For a successful trip!

Priya xx