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April 2007

Baby Kesava passes away after never quite recovering from pneumonia.
See article about Operation Shanti in The Worldly magazine.

March 2007

Mahadevi and her son Ganesha find a house to rent.
Little Prema has her tonsils out and spends a couple of days in the hospital.
Gangadhara passes away from tuberculosis.
Baby Kesava is admitted to the hospital for 10 days with pneumonia.

February 2007

Two more street moms get tubectomies as part of our family planning effort.
Cary from the U.S. gives several street moms free (and much needed) massages in February and March.

January 2007

We start providing Monday meals to 33 former street kids at a very poor orphanage.
We took twenty kids on field trips to the Mysore zoo and to the big dam and river.
Latta's mom and dad find a house to rent.
See the article about Operation Shanti in Vision Magazine.

December 2006

Chakra House, a Mysore eatery for yoga students, provides a nice breakfast meal for our street kids and moms.
The kids celebrate a great Christmas lunch at the park, and enjoy cool gifts from yoga students in Mysore, arranged by Joseph.
Pallavi's mom and dad find a house to rent.
See the article in a nationwide Indian newspaper about our work.

January 2006

New Year's card, with a poem and note written by a street girl in our program

A Poem

I am a river.
You are a river.
Both our rivers is the Cauvery river.

For the sky there is no ladder.
For the ocean there is no bridge.
For our friendship there is no end

You are very good. You are good to us. From you, we have survived. If you are not here, we would not survive. We fold our hands (in namaste) to you. Whatever we do for you, it's much less. You are our prana (life). You are more than my mother, because you have helped her to live. You are like both father and mother to me because you are looking after me. Our people are not like this. But you are helping us so much. Love, Asha

A touching note from a street mom in our program: “From Mother Kumari. When you have come and helped us and our children in footpath, and our life has changed forever. Thank you. We bless you live hundred years. To our English Aunty.”

December 2005
A gesture from a thougthful donor, Betsy Murphy and her family in Florida:
In lieu of holiday gifts for many of our friends and neighbors, our family decided to make a donation to your organization. We hope that we can help make a difference. Below please find our list of friends:
The Scott McClendon Family The Eric Kahl Family The Gene Meyer Family Esther and Tommy Ridenhour The Laurence Pettit Family Renee and Larry Rustin The Russ Porter Family The John Fernandez Family The Jim Shindell Family The Stefan Zachar Family The Jim Dockerty Family	The Bill Ewing Family The Jack Barker Family The Tim Harris Family The Ben Reid Family Shelley Dickerson and Chris Wilson The Felix Fuertes The Conception Family The Torre Family The Paul Savoldelli Family The Tom Fuhrman Family Susan and Charlie George	The Bill Walker Family The Dick Anderson Family The Ken Sussman Family The Bill Anderson Family The Adam Goldstein Family The Steve Sommers Family The Donna Lubin Family Halston Towle Danilo Mesa Dr. Susan Keeley Gretchen Suarez and David Keil

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