More amazing students!

This morning I was in the clinic again with Dr S.  This is the last clinic with her before she goes for a few days break.  I saw 2 young children this morning who had come in from an orphanage in Gurgaon in the south of the city.  The children there are all children of sex workers.  Dr S told me later that they have to allow the children home once a year with their parent(s).  Last year one girl went for a home visit and never came back.  There are great concerns about where she is now.  There seems to be little oversight of care of children here...very disturbing!

Dr S is beginning to use some of the new drugs on our list now - although it is not yet finalised.

This afternoon was the second Celebration for the new students.  As yesterday there were about 50 students there.  Vinola gave a brief introduction.  She is very good with them.

Again several of the students gave a speech including Sanju who had good English and had spent time chatting with me beforehand.

 Here are some others:

 One of the second years talked about her experience of starting College and encouraged those just starting out.

The rest of the team from Mayapuri came...

Hannah and Jenny (1st and second left) remembered me from both 2010 when they were both teaching English in Tigri, and also 2008 when we briefly visited the slum they were decorating!  The other important bit of information is that Jenny (2nd left) accepted Rupert's (far right) proposal of marriage last week outside Humayan's Tomb!  Jenny thought she was just posing for a photo as Rupert filmed the whole thing!

Hannah gave an inspiring talk explaining about Peter's experience when he got out of the boat and began walking on water towards Jesus, but then began to sink.  She suggested that when the students begin to feel overwhelmed in the future, they should do what Peter did and look to Jesus as He holds out his hand to lift them up.

And then it was my time to repeat the message I gave yesterday:

After a Q&A session the students were asked to give a short explanation of something they liked or appreciated about their Asha worker.  These guys and gals have worked their socks off over the last few weeks and need a bit of appreciation!!!  Here they are appreciating David:

The Tigri students were there! It was lovely to meet them and Sunita who came with them.  One of them, Rekha, who wants to be a Policewoman, shouted after me when I left: "Sir....Sir!"  She introduced herself as the sister of Suhil.  In 2010 our church back home had raised some funds and had some leftover from the project costs.  Suhil was starting a course in Animation studies and was struggling because he could only gain access to a computer at College for about 20 minutes each day.  How can you study Animation like that? So Freddy asked us if it was OK to use the money to buy him a computer.  We were only too pleased to say yes:

And here is his beautiful younger sister asking a question at the Q&A session:

Now I'm home and being air-conditioned!