Namaste, The heat is slowly rising. Today it is 40-43 degrees. I am sitting in our center and the children are sleeping. We have 16 children here today and all but 1 is asleep. 4 children are away. One is starting on Monday.

The center has been open for 5 weeks and we have a total of 21 children, one of them being our wonderful cook/cleaner’s son. He is the baby of our center being a one and a half year old. The next is 3 and the oldest is 7. We will keep it at this number and as we move the older children onto school in a couple of months we will open it up for new enrolments.

We have very fun filled days. Here is a normal day for us:

• Arrive and have free play.
• Brush our teeth.
• Aerobics and dancing
• Morning tea/ water and toilet break
• Formal teaching: We choose a topic and study it for a week. The children are broken up into 3 ability groups. E.g study Hindi for a week then the next week we’ll do numbers, etc
• Then we have lunch and rest
• The afternoon is different as the children will awake at different times. So we do art and craft and writing in the afternoon.
• We wake all children up at 3.00 and its games until their parents arrive to pick them up.

C Block FireWe are in B Block and last week we were working with the children when outside I saw a lot of people running past. It was a really windy day and a fire had broken out in one of the houses in C block and people were running from everywhere, to help. A lot of our parents or older brothers and sisters came to collect the children as it was really just over the road from us. If you imagine homes made of any material you can get, paper, cardboard, material, plastic and wood these were destroyed as the fire swept through the whole block. 200 homes were destroyed. 4 of our families were affected. They have lost everything. We were able to give them some clothes, from the amount we had had donated from NZ. Last week there was a fire in another block and we were able to give a lot to one family. So this weekend we went shopping and bought some outfits for these little ones who have lost so much.

On behalf of the children at Bawana I’d like to send a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us with prayer and financial gifts and to those who are regular supporters.

Next email will have news from our fun time at the zoo.

I pray that everyone reading this will feel a part of this exciting ministry. Without your support it wouldn’t be happening. Please feel free to contact me any time, it would be great to hear from you.

My address is jig.naenae@paradise.net.nz

God bless

From Julie-Ann / Jig