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Posted by: kidhelper on Thursday, April 17th, 2008

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Build A Playground for Mission School in India

The India Web is coordinating the building of a playground with Kids Around the World for India.

In 2002 there was a devastating earthquake in northern India.  When our missionary Chako Vadavana (C.V.) arrived on the scene to provide humanitarian relief, he discovered that all the schools in the region were destroyed. Burdened about what he experienced there, he purchased some land and started building a school for the local children.

There are 550 children who attend the Mission School. They would like to continue adding grades every school year. Last summer, Rev. Barney Kinard took a “vision trip” to India and visited this school. It became clear that the local hero was the relief worker in the region, because he built the school for the children. Barney conducted a school assembly for all the kids. The children were so responsive and so appreciative of his visit. But Barney noticed that they needed a quality playground, which could be “center-piece” to display the commitment of Christians from America for the parents who send their children to school.

So a supportive network of friends was formed to provide and construct a quality playground at the school in northern India. The playground will be a generous contribution to this educational program of this needy village. In addition, teachers were better trained to teach the children..

We looked for laborers to construct this playground in one week for the school children. The dates were tentatively set.  We would fly into Mumbai (Bombay), visit churches in one of the largest slums in the world. We will visit an Orphanage, the home of 50 children. We will visit a Sunday service in Slum Church in the area, then we will fly to northern India. We would stay in a hotel. Then we will construct the school playground in one week. We will return to Mumbai, visit Mumbai again, then we catch the return flight to Los Angeles on Sunday. Some may continue to South India for additional school visits with kids.

 

 

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