• We would organise a tour of our projects for them so they would see what they were helping to build.
  
• We would take them on a cultural tour of South India showing them the great temples of Tamil Nadu and the sacred shrines of the Hindu, Muslim, Buddhists and Christian faiths.
  
• We would also provide them with a truly ethnic experience showing them how the poor live contrasted with the extreme wealth of the very rich. India is very much a country of the haves and have-nots in the extreme.
  
• We would also take them to Middle India to see Dehli, Agra and Jaipur, the golden triangle. If we ventured by train we would also take in Hyderabad.
  

The cost of this would be in the region of £1000 to £1500 and it would be as all inclusive as possible.

The price of this may change as our calculations are only in their infancy.

The aim of this programme is to provide a stepping stone from India to their great adventure of freedom from school. They will have the initial security of being in a small community of their peers and will have the luxury of being fully catered for or even if they wish cooking for themselves. Accommodation would be basic but good with western facilities. Transportation would be in our own Wheel of Hope vehicles though we might have to rent another Tata Sumo! There would also be free time to relax and enjoy the beauty of Kovalam Beach but we would also be providing a service that would inform and extend their education in a way that nothing in the class room can achieve.

Contact David or Pamela for further details

Phone/Fax 0044 (0)1709 869550/860401 U.K. Mobile: 0044 (0)7799 850556

Email: davidmco@yahoo.co.uk or pamelanolan@yahoo.co.uk

Happy Home goes to Happy Land and thank you to Patrick from all of us for making our trip possible !!!

Our friends Jimmy and Lara Brannigan with their three children Niamh, Patrick and Ben, have made a short half term visit to see their old friends at Happy Home. Our children were delighted to see them BUT their biggest surprise was that Patrick alias Patch had said NO to Birthday presents but YES to donations for Wheel of Hope so all our children can go to Happy Land. This year with the increase in numbers from 25 to 50 children we knew we could not afford to take them especially as we have the new school year looming ahead which means new school uniforms. But Patch enabled us to provide a day of fun for our children.

From no presents to the best present ever!!!

Apart from the sheer joy of giving to those who have nothing, Patrick received something very special from our children both as a memento of his kindness and of our very special day … a leather elephant. Elephants never forget and we will never forget Patrick …

…and the sheep becomes a prince!!

Jimmy makes a documentary about the Fishing village and how Wheel of Hope helps the poor

As well as wanting to see the children at happy Home Jimmy wanted to make a documentary for his company about how failing conditions have increased the terrible plight of the poor and this has increased the burden on Wheel of Hope. The extreme poverty we experience is sadly not diminishing but increasing and children of the poor have no chance other than to work at the harbour.

These two boys aged 12 and 13 are waiting for work on the boats like the young lad standing in this fishing boat. They have never been to school and it is impossible for our charity to help boys like these. All we can do is maintain children at school and prevent them from having to work.

This is where they will spend the rest of their lives seven days a week except for a break to go to Mass on Sunday if they are from the Catholic side of the village or the Mosque on Friday if they are Moslems.

A DVD of this documentary will be available and can be ordered through writing to David at davidmco@yahoo.co.uk

Some of you may remember the lavatory we built for the family who lived by the open sewer. This was made possible through the money we received from Archdeacon Bob for his new reversible cope which was made by our sewing project at Happy Home. Well Jimmy wanted to visit the family and see how they managed and here are the pictures.

These pictures paint a sad story of their lowly little abode backing onto the rat infested sewer. It is impossible to believe that people still live like this at the beginning of the 21^st century.

The relatively picturesque scene to the left cannot convey the horror of the foul smell of human excrement and waste. The communal well outside their house is filthy but in constant use. The people haven’t the money to clean it.

Jimmy visits the home of Vinitha.

This was something very special for Jimmy because last year he gave us the money for a computer. You may remember the terrible story of Vinitha’s mother burning herself to death because of the abuse by her husband and this left her daughter in the care of her ageing grandparents. The church was building houses for the poor and we were told they had run out of funds when it came to the house of the grandparents. But this was not the case. They had to contribute 50,000 rupees towards the construction. This was not possible for them so Wheel of Hope had to foot the bill and had to use the money Jimmy gave us for the computer. Suresh gave the children his old computer so we had the best of both worlds!

This is their little breeze block house, we cannot afford to have the inside rendered and painted but it is home to one of our very special members of Happy Home and we are proud to have been able to give them a place of their own. When funds are available we will finish the job.

Jimmy talks to Suresh about the condition of the public well adjacent to Vinitha’s home. It is in desperate need of cleaning just like the one outside Shyju’s but the people just cannot afford to do it even though it would cost just a few rupees each from the several hundred people who use it. On average, depending on the size, depth and condition it costs in the region of £200.

The people constantly use the well and suffer the consequences if they do not adequately boil the water before using.

We visit the poor village school we help through part of our Wheel of Hope outreach programme.

This is actually the small local primary school in Kovalam that Suresh attended. It is run by LMS the London Missionary Society which is affiliated to the Church of South India and as with most educational institutions takes children of all faiths.

As part of our outreach programme we sponsor books and newspapers as all these children are from very poor homes and need as much help as they can

Our return to England

Pamela and I return to England on the 4^th March and we are looking forward to seeing our friends and neighbours whom we have greatly missed over the past months. We have much work to do planning exciting new schemes that could possibly be a mutual help scheme for deprived children in the UK. We are greatly looking forward to meeting Bishop Cyril our Patron and also our dear friends and supporters at the Minster. We are also looking forward to giving talks to the Mothers’ Union in Rotherham and Sheffield and Meeting Bishop James of Knaresborough when we deliver his new cope.

We are also very much looking forward to reporting back to all the schools and churches that support us as well as making new contacts and exploring new ways of fund raising.

We will greatly miss Suresh, all his family and helpers and of course the children at Happy Home. But we will be in contact through news letters and internet.

The future for Wheel of Hope looks good but we are always in need of new supporters.

We extend our grateful thanks to Patrick and all of you who, through sponsorship or in any other way, have helped to further the benefit of our children at Happy Home.

Thank You

For whom Wheel of Hope cares in Happy Home and we would like to extend a big THANKYOU TO ALL OUR SUPPORTERS

Happy Home is HAPPY because our aim is to replace our children’s problems and sadness by love, warmth, care, and friendship. This will empower them to achieve their potential through education and give them the joy of their success in life.

School Sponsorships

This is a very important part of our work because through assemblies, projects and talks in schools and colleges we not only raise funds through donations and sponsorship, but teach the students about how children live in cultures different to our own. So why not add your school to our list of friends and supporters like: Wath Victoria, Queen’s Swinton, Hill House, Richmond Hill, Edward VII and Meadow View Rotherham

Individual Sponsorship

Individual Sponsorship is the most useful way to help our charity and can be Gift Aided if you are a regular UK tax payer
for it gives you a continued personal interest in the charity and makes sure you are kept up to date with what we are doing.

Individual Donations

Individual Donations are vital so we can be used to purchase items, repair homes and advance our medical aid programmes.

Dinner Parties

Dinner Parties
in an Ancient Egyptian atmosphere at the home of David and Pamela the founding sponsors.

Antique Fairs

Pamela and David spend many a ‘fun weekend’ packing the car and setting up a stall of ‘valuable junk’ to sell. We also bring back things from Egypt and India to sell and the profit goes directly to Wheel of Hope

Villa of Dreams
our Indian Home

Is perhaps our main source of income. We expect a donation of £500 per person for 2 weeks to stay there + contribution for food and the cost of flight to and from the U.K. and transport in India.

Talks on Ancient Egypt

David is a retired school master and experienced Egyptologist. He gives talks to schools and organisations and has taken over 30 groups to Egypt. Schools can visit the Egyptian Temple in his garden and also the underground Egyptian chambers at his house

David also paints as a hobby

And to raise funds takes commissions for portraits and landscapes. These are some of his works.

Please find it within your heart to help us help these children. We have few overheads and almost every penny donated goes directly to the Trust

£20 per month is the cost of keeping a child at Happy Home and we need funds for our Outreach Programmes, Tuition and Medical Help Centre.

But you can help with whatever you can afford per month

Happy Home is HAPPY because our children’s’ problems and sadness will be replaced by love, warmth, care, friendship and the ability to achieve their full potential and lift them from the abyss of negativity to the heights of positive achievement

These are the first pictures of the home taken after we have agreed to rent the premises for one year. It is perfect for our needs

• It has a reasonable walled garden front and back
• A large entrance hall and small office room
• Three larger rooms – one with en-suite
• A huge kitchen
• An outside loo and shower room
• Now that we have had to take in extra children making our total 50, we have had to cover the roof area in order to accommodate such a large number.
• The downstairs rooms can now be used for teaching the Sewing Ladies, Jewellery making and an indoor play area as well as watching television.

The Aims of the Home

• Happy Home is a place where dreams come true
• It is a place to give families security they need for their child to achieve his/her full potential
• This care must be a partnership, teaching parents a new responsibility of ownership for their child’s future.
• Wheel of Hope has given that opportunity, but the parents must embrace their duty and strive to work even harder to enable the rest of the family to have a better life.
• Happy Home will liberate parents from the day to day burden of financial responsibility for their children
• But they still have a moral obligation to help and support the Trust in its efforts to provide the best for their child.

The Ethos of the Home

• Each child must promise to work hard and do his best at school.
• You must also love and respect each other like brothers and sisters. Each one of you must not only feel that love and security yourself but share it with your new brothers and sisters.
• You come together as one big family joined together in a desire to help not only yourselves and families to achieve a better life but each other.
• The motto of this house is ‘Not for self but for all’ and this means that each one who lives here must take on a responsibility of love and care not just for everyone else here but also for all those less fortunate than themselves within the community.
• Happy Home is intended to be a place that will enrich your life not just by material things such as knowing you have food and clothing, a good place to sleep and also many of the fun things of life such as games and TV but also and most important of all, the ethos of love.

The Inauguration speech of Happy Home

Today the inauguration of Wheel of Hope’s Happy Home Tuition Hostel marks a milestone in the history of the Trust and is literally a dream come true.

This is to be a place where we hope all your dreams will come true for it will enable those who live and learn here to know that they and their families have the security they need for their child to achieve his or her full potential.

The aim of this hostel is to prevent children from giving up school in order to earn a living for their families. Each child who lives here will know that he or she will be able to achieve his or her dreams.

But this care must be a partnership. Parents must take on a new responsibility of ownership for their child’s future. Wheel of Hope has given that opportunity, but you, the parents must embrace your duty and strive to work even harder to enable both the rest of your family and your children in the hostel to obtain a better life.

Your children living in the hostel will liberate you from the day to day burden of financial responsibility. But you still have the moral obligation to help and support the Trust in its efforts to provide the best for your child.

Also for the children who live here there is an obligation. Each one of you has to promise to work hard and do your best at school. You don’t have to be top of the class but you must work your best and help your teacher.

You must also love and respect each other like brothers and sisters. You come together as one big family joined together in a desire to help not only yourselves and families to achieve a better life but each other.

The motto of this house is ‘Not for self but for all’ and this means that each one who lives here must take on a responsibility of love and care not just for everyone else here but also for all those less fortunate than themselves within the community. Each one of you must not only feel that love and security yourself but share it with your new brothers and sisters.

Happy Home is starting with just a handful of children but we hope that as funds increase so too will the numbers and also our ability to create other homes such as this. It is intended to be a place of love and security where your life will be enriched not just by the material things in life such as the security of knowing you have food and clothing, a good place to sleep and also many of the fun things of life such as games and TV but also and most important of all, the ethos of love.

I want to extend a special thank you to Suresh Kumar, the Managing Trustee of Wheel of Hope for all his hard work in finding this home. His never ceasing work for the trust is what has enabled this home to come into existence.

I also want to thank… Our new House Mother who will be responsible for all of you who live here. You must love her and respect her, for she is the one who will care for you.

I also want to extend my thanks and gratitude to Dr Veena for promising to man our Wheel of Hope Health Help Centre so that we can aim to give the very best medical care.

Finally I want to thank Father Deepak Sircar for coming to bless this house and each of you as a sign that this new family will live under the love and guidance of the one Holy Family that is our true inspiration.

This is based on our Mission Statement …

“To empower children through education to achieve their full potential …through the provision of education appropriate to their abilities and needs and to support their parents financially thus liberating them from the need for their children to contribute to the family income”

India is a country that thirsts for education with a justifiable passion and zeal that is commensurate with the high intelligence and potential of her people. She is perhaps the fastest developing nation in the world and is at present one of the world’s greatest economies.

As such it is only fitting that as many children as possible are able to benefit from the wide array of advantages the infrastructure of India already has.

It is not our aim to replace the indigenous education system with some imposed programme but to empower and enable children to achieve the fullness of their potential through the already existing excellent educational facilities.

So many children from the poorest strata of society are unable to achieve very much more than the lowest form of secondary education and some even fail to do this.

The reason is not through their own inabilities but their parent’s lack of financial power to enable them to pursue their studies. They need their child to enter the work stream in order to bring home valuable income for the family.

• The purchase of a piece of land 3-5 acres for the construction of the village which will function as an independent unit providing work, education and health facilities for its inhabitants.( costing approximately £100,000 )
• The village will have a number of small cottage type buildings of block construction with a tin room, each housing 8 to 10 children with a house mother. Costing approximately £1,500/£2000 each
• We also hope to build similar homes for poor families who desperately need accommodation and will pay a low subsidised rent in return for their work on the village projects and some families will be housed free on condition each family cares for a single orphaned child.
• Eventually the village will have its own Public School and Tuition Centre costing in the region of £75,000.
  
• It is hoped that eventually fee paying boarding pupils will attend this to generate income for the village.
• A Medical Centre will be established to care for the villager’s basic needs costing in the region of £15,000
• A sewing institute will be established to provide work and training for the women
• A small farm will be established to provide appropriate work for the men.
• Shopping facilities will also be provided again to generate income and be a convenience for the residents.
• A residential visitor’s centre with western facilities will be constructed to generate funds and also to demonstrate and publicise the work of the Trust. This will cost in the region of £60,000

The village will be non-religious and the residents will be free to practice any religion of their choice.

How to arrange an exclusive “Wheel of Hope – Tour of Egypt”

Accompanied by Renowned Esoteric Egyptologist David Calvert-Orange who has lectured in Esoteric Egyptology for over 30 years and led more than 20 groups.

1. Contact David or Pamela who have an Esoteric Egyptology centre in South Yorkshire.

• An initial chat will probably give all the details you require to whet your appetite for a mind-blowing tour of a lifetime.
• The tour is arranged exclusively for you and a partner, plus if you like up to four friends.

2. Arrange a stay at Rockland House where David and Pamela have their centre

• There you can enjoy a time of relaxation and discovery exploring the Egyptian Chamber on the Lower Ground Floor and the delightful Temple of Khons.
• NB To stay at Rockland House we expect a donation of approximately what you would expect to pay at a B&B all profits go to our Charity

3. This is sample of what you can see on your tour, remember they are designed for your needs

• The Great Mortuary Temples
• The Valley of Kings, Queens,Nobles and artisans
• The Tombs of Aye and Roy
• The Temple of Karnak
• The Temple of Luxor
• The Luxor Museum
• The Temples at Dendera, Edfu, Abydos, Kom Ombo and Philae
• The Great Pyramid at Giza Saqqara and Dashur
• The Cairo Museum of Antiquities where the treasures of Tutankhamon are housed

• The cost of flights and hotel varies
  according but are between £400 and £600
• David’s fee for a two weeks tour for up to four people, is a donation of £1000 to Wheel of Hope (which can be Gift Aided if you are a U.K. Tax Payer) – additional persons (no more than two) by arrangement.
• PLUS you pay all David’s expenses, the basic cost of the trip, meals and excursions etc. which could total another £1500 making in total £2500 to be shared between the group.
• BUT you will save on the cost of Excursions. You only pay the basic taxi cost and entrance fees and when you consider Thompson’s trip to the Valley of the Kings in excess of £40 per person and a trip to Cairo well over £120 for the day,
• David can arrange them at a fraction of the price through using local taxies. Also you have the additional advantage of David’s exclusive services as a guide seeing everything at your leisure and not in a coach load of about 50+ You could save up to £750 on tours YOU decide what you want to go on and how you want to do it. All in all it will prove to be an experience

Please Note that all the profits from this trip will go directly to Happy Home run by Wheel of Hope Charitable Trust U.K. the charity run by David and Pamela to help the destitute of India.

Hosted by the Founding sponsors of Wheel of Hope

David Calvert-Orange and Pamela Nolan

A real chance to see the work of Wheel of Hope and the wonders of South India

First we want you to see Happy Home and experience what we are trying with the limited funds we have to do for the destitute in the area. Our hope is that you will see the value of what we are doing and spread the word back home for others to want to help us. … but then we also want you to spend a fascinating and relaxing time enjoying the utter magic of South India.

This is where you will stay

David and Pamela have had a 4 bed roomed house built with en-suite facilities, a super lounge, and a small roof garden! There is a plunge pool on the roof.

It is in the heart of the most beautiful countryside just a short way from the most fantastic beach! You will be able to visit fantastic temples, palaces and places of beauty

Our last guests Sylvia and Alan who run a stall at Chesterfield Market insisted we re-wrote this brochure to stress the full nature of your stay.

You have chosen to come with us for a very wonderful reason and that is you care deeply about the poor and destitute of the third world and developing countries.

BUT … you will also experience a holiday that is tailor made to your requirements as we have the infrastructure to offer you virtually whatever you want, whether you are a single person or family with children. Suresh our Managing Trustee has an extended family of helpers who are able to arrange and facilitate ALMOST anything you wish from fishing ton Ayurveda therapies; to visiting temples, palaces, adventure and wild life parks to trips to some of the most wonderful countryside anywhere in the world such as forests, gardens and game reserves of Ooty and the hill top tea plantations of Munnar. Everywhere from our local beach to the environs of our villa is literally a wonderland and your mode of transport will be our air-conditioned Tata Sumo.

Almost the entire cost of your tour apart from the air fare will help the funds of Wheel of Hope …how many holidays directly help the poor?

Behind Pamela washing the elephant is our Tata Sumo the vehicle in which you would be taken on tours

What more could you want except perfect weather which is almost guaranteed at the right time of year though many like to enjoy the Monsoon!

Guests will see …

	Our outreach programme for the destitute and Happy Home our Tuition and Day Care Centre, preventing children from working and giving them an education… Below is our 2008 Christmas party.
	Happy Children fed and educated by Wheel of Hope with their Christmas present …Just what they always wanted!!

• The cost for two weeks with us in India is a donation paid directly to Wheel of Hope of £500 per person, extra day’s pro-rata. Every penny of this goes to the Trust funds. We are not a business and the sole purpose of the villa is to show guests our projects. When travelling in the Sumo you pay just 15 rupees per 1km. (about 20p.) also the cost of all meals en-route. You will be expected to book your own flights which will probably cost around £400/£500 depending on season. We will meet you at Trivandrum Airport – about 30 minutes away from the Villa. You will also need to obtain a Visa and Travel Insurance.
• Evening meals at the Villa (optional) – £5.00 per person – or you may wish to sample the delights of the various restaurants on Kovalam Beach.
• We hope that all our guests will have a wonderful and enjoyable time (only one rule at the Villa – NO SMOKING) and of course will tell your friends about us and Wheel of Hope Trust
• You might also want to check out our gap year projects, by clicking here.

Contact David or Pamela for further details

Phone/Fax 0044 (0)1709 869550/860401 U.K. Mobile: 0044 (0)7799 850556

Email: davidmco@yahoo.co.uk or pamelanolan@yahoo.co.uk

Happy Home is HAPPY because our children’s’ problems and sadness will be replaced by love, warmth, care, friendship and the ability to achieve their full potential and lift them from the abyss of negativity to the heights of positive achievement

These are the first pictures of the home taken after we have agreed to rent the premises for one year. It is perfect for our needs

• It has a reasonable walled garden front and back
• A large entrance hall and small office room
• Three larger rooms – one with en-suite
• A huge kitchen
• An outside loo and shower room
• Now that we have had to take in extra children making our total 50, we have had to cover the roof area in order to accommodate such a large number.
• The downstairs rooms can now be used for teaching the Sewing Ladies, Jewellery making and an indoor play area as well as watching television.

The Aims of the Home

• Happy Home is a place where dreams come true
• It is a place to give families security they need for their child to achieve his/her full potential
• This care must be a partnership, teaching parents a new responsibility of ownership for their child’s future.
• Wheel of Hope has given that opportunity, but the parents must embrace their duty and strive to work even harder to enable the rest of the family to have a better life.
• Happy Home will liberate parents from the day to day burden of financial responsibility for their children
• But they still have a moral obligation to help and support the Trust in its efforts to provide the best for their child.

The Ethos of the Home

• Each child must promise to work hard and do his best at school.
• You must also love and respect each other like brothers and sisters. Each one of you must not only feel that love and security yourself but share it with your new brothers and sisters.
• You come together as one big family joined together in a desire to help not only yourselves and families to achieve a better life but each other.
• The motto of this house is ‘Not for self but for all’ and this means that each one who lives here must take on a responsibility of love and care not just for everyone else here but also for all those less fortunate than themselves within the community.
• Happy Home is intended to be a place that will enrich your life not just by material things such as knowing you have food and clothing, a good place to sleep and also many of the fun things of life such as games and TV but also and most important of all, the ethos of love.

The Inauguration speech of Happy Home

Today the inauguration of Wheel of Hope’s Happy Home Tuition Hostel marks a milestone in the history of the Trust and is literally a dream come true.

This is to be a place where we hope all your dreams will come true for it will enable those who live and learn here to know that they and their families have the security they need for their child to achieve his or her full potential.

The aim of this hostel is to prevent children from giving up school in order to earn a living for their families. Each child who lives here will know that he or she will be able to achieve his or her dreams.

But this care must be a partnership. Parents must take on a new responsibility of ownership for their child’s future. Wheel of Hope has given that opportunity, but you, the parents must embrace your duty and strive to work even harder to enable both the rest of your family and your children in the hostel to obtain a better life.

Your children living in the hostel will liberate you from the day to day burden of financial responsibility. But you still have the moral obligation to help and support the Trust in its efforts to provide the best for your child.

Also for the children who live here there is an obligation. Each one of you has to promise to work hard and do your best at school. You don’t have to be top of the class but you must work your best and help your teacher.

You must also love and respect each other like brothers and sisters. You come together as one big family joined together in a desire to help not only yourselves and families to achieve a better life but each other.

The motto of this house is ‘Not for self but for all’ and this means that each one who lives here must take on a responsibility of love and care not just for everyone else here but also for all those less fortunate than themselves within the community. Each one of you must not only feel that love and security yourself but share it with your new brothers and sisters.

Happy Home is starting with just a handful of children but we hope that as funds increase so too will the numbers and also our ability to create other homes such as this. It is intended to be a place of love and security where your life will be enriched not just by the material things in life such as the security of knowing you have food and clothing, a good place to sleep and also many of the fun things of life such as games and TV but also and most important of all, the ethos of love.

I want to extend a special thank you to Suresh Kumar, the Managing Trustee of Wheel of Hope for all his hard work in finding this home. His never ceasing work for the trust is what has enabled this home to come into existence.

I also want to thank… Our new House Mother who will be responsible for all of you who live here. You must love her and respect her, for she is the one who will care for you.

I also want to extend my thanks and gratitude to Dr Veena for promising to man our Wheel of Hope Health Help Centre so that we can aim to give the very best medical care.

Finally I want to thank Father Deepak Sircar for coming to bless this house and each of you as a sign that this new family will live under the love and guidance of the one Holy Family that is our true inspiration.