Dear Friends of Wheel of Hope, .

…. so many exciting things are happening here that Aghosh our webmaster has decided to give us a BLOG.   I have never run one of these before and as i am completely IT illiterate this is a mere experiment.   However if it works it really should be great.   So first thing to do is to say HELLO  to you all from everyone at Happy Home.  Then when I have posted this I will try again!

Accompanied by Renowned Esoteric Egyptologist David Calvert-Orange

Who has lectured in Esoteric Egyptology for over 30 years and led more than 20 groups

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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

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 that 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 my 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.

• 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.

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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

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 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 Ayervedic 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?

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 (See our news letter on it).

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The cost   for two weeks with us in India is a donation paid directly to Wheel of Hope of £500 per person, extra days 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 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

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This is Happy Home’s Mural made specially for all our friends and especially the schools in England that support us.

We hope you like it. It is made with our love and we would love to see some of your work.

You can send it to davidmco@yahoo.co.uk

Please draw something for us so our  children can share their lives with you

With much love from all the children at Wheel of Hope’s Happy Home

And …..with grateful thanks to our visitor Michael

For all his help and providing us with all the materials

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David is a qualified teacher and offers stimulating days at schools on the following topics

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• The Monarchy, the Coronation, and The Constitution
• The Reformation and The Renaissance
• The Tudors
• Ancient Egypt

A great idea to bring to life the teaching of these fantastic topics and

Ancient Egypt

David  Calvert-Orange is a retired schoolmaster with years of experience teaching History, RE and Art as well as being an Egyptologist, artist and world traveller. Together with Pamela Nolan, over the past few years he has dedicated his life to the establishment of a small South Yorkshire based charity to help the destitute in India through education and self help schemes and now we have a day care centre that will guarantee the education of up to 50 children by providing their school uniforms and books and extra tuition in the evenings.  We hope to open more of these in the future … but we need your help!

For Teachers we can offer

• A meal at Rockland House
• A trip to Egypt or Italy

• A holiday in India

ALL PROFITS FROM WHAT WE DO GO DIRECTLY TO WHEEL OF HOPE

David and Pamela have turned their home in South Yorkshire into an Educational Centre for Ancient Egypt studies and can offer the following to teachers and schools. Learn about ….

• The plight of poor Indian children during a special assembly.

• The Great Pyramid: The Gods of  Ancient Egypt: The Story of Isis and Osiris: An Egyptian Temple: The incredible link between the Ancient Egyptian religion and advanced science: Tutankhamon, his brother Smenkhare, their murder and his treasure:  The magical writing of the Ancient Egyptians: The reality of the afterlife and the 5 sacred texts

And at the Egyptology Centre

• The function of the Great Pyramid at the under ground recreation of what the interior of the Great Pyramid containing countless artefacts really means.

• The sacred rites in the Temple of Khons, recreated in the grounds of our house

The Renaissance And Reformation

Through this glorious rebirth of the learning discover the greatest minds and the greatest artists of all time

• Michaelangelo
• Leonardo
• Donatello
• Raphael
• Shakespeare
• Henry VIII……….and others

Throughout his career David has taken many school journeys to Florence Rome and Paris to show his classes first hand the wonders of this golden age.  Through the most comprehensive collection of pictures he can bring this subject to life

• Re-enacting a Shakespeare Play
• Making a portfolio of Renaissance art
• Looking at famous paintings and statues
• Learning to copy the Renaissance way
• Making a Leonardo drawing
• Re-enacting the Roman Mass and a Protestant ‘Last Supper and explaining their relative significance

Experience a virtual tour of Ancient Egypt or the Vatican Museum without leaving your school!

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The Coronation, monarchy and Constitution

Learn bout the role of our Queen in our constitution and throughout the world as well as experiencing an awesome reconstruction of the sacred rite of the Coronation of Her Majesty!

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At Happy Home, we run sewing classes for poor ladies. The more advanced can make vestments like this cope for our patron Bishop Cyril. We take orders!. Fr Christopher Smith of Doncaster Minster was the first to receive a full set of Eucharistic vestments and Bishop Cyril followed with a reversible cope and matching mitres. (See pictures). The team has also produced another reversible cope, this time for Archdeacon Bob Fitzharris and a beautiful purple stole for Alan of St. James’s Doncaster. We have just made a matching stole for Archdeacon Bob and a reversible Cope for the Bishop of Knaresborough. India has a vast wealth of the most beautiful materials and the added vantage of it being far less costly than in the UK.  To augment our funds at Wheel of Hope we offer you the opportunity to allow your wishes to come true and indulge yourself in a beautiful new set of vestments and at the same time be helping a very worthwhile cause under the Patronage of Bishop Cyril. Depending on the material it costs between £100 and £175 to actually produce a cope and we would hope for a donation of at least twice that which can if expedient be gift aided.   A chasuble and dalmatic would cost less but again it depends on the material.  Of course they would come complete with matching stole, maniple and altar dressing if required. For further details and orders please email davidmco@yahoo.co.uk or pamelanolan@yahoo.co.uk

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

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

 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.  This is some of his work …

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But you can help with whatever you can afford per month

To view the details pertaining to each child, simply click on the images.

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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

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• 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.

Here you can see the imposing entrance to the house with walled garden and strong front gate.  The front garden is a good relaxation and play area and the back is big enough for a simple game of cricket!

This is a palace compared to their previous homes

INSIDE HAPPY HOME

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These are 2 of the larger rooms, one has an en-suite and this will be used by the girls.  The boys will use the outside facility and will be no hardship for them because many of them do not have a lavatory and shower in their house at all!

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This is (above) typical of the sort of accommodation where many of the poorest children of the Fishing Village live.  This is the home of Rajesh and his brothers. The pots and pans above are their mother’s kitchen, they have no lavatory.

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.

Happy Home | Tuition and Day Care Centre

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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 present requirements

The Inauguration speech of Happy Home

Children’s Tuition and Day Care Centre

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.

2000 Wheel of Hope started as Millennium Star Cricket Club to encourage poor children to go to school. This evolved into a children’s Tuition Centre at Chowara near Kovalam and under the auspices of the Mahatma Gandhi Trust.

2004
In order to maintain the Trust on a sound financial footing a cow project was started to provide a small income to the poor families who kept the cows and also the Trust which provided them. The Trust became a registered charity in India number … 31/04; created a Sewing Project to teach poor ladies sewing skills to enable them to earn a living and again provide an income for the Trust through the sale of articles they made.

Concurrent with the Tuition Centre, Cow and Sewing Projects was a programme of outreach through which the Trust helped needy families at a personal level by providing such things as medical care, contributions towards food, school uniform and equipment as well as repairs to homes. This became an ever increasingly important feature of the Trust as funds became more available.

2006 A second Tuition Centre at Chowara was created and initially over 60 children took advantage of this. However as funds became available a new building was constructed for the original tuition centre and the two were consolidated but sadly the numbers decreased and it was closed in 2007.

2007 Subsequently the decision was made to form independent Tuition Centre at the desperately poor fishing village of Vizhinjam where we now have 50 children. We acquired 4 adjacent lock up shop premises which we rented and these provided a Tuition Centre, Medical Help Centre community Centre with TV and DVD player and a Trust Office The Trust also made the decision to sponsor a children’s dance group that literally dances to provide an income for the families to enable them to go to school.

2008 In February we decided that we should rent a bungalow and transfer there from the lock up premises. This became Happy Home Tuition and Day Care Centre for 25 children which in 2009 increased to 50. It was opened by Fr. Dee Sircar of Doncaster Minster and we were then adopted as the official Charity of the Minster with the Bishop of Doncaster becoming our Patron and in June we became a registered Charity in the U.K. We continue with our outreach policy giving medical and social aid to the desperately poor details can be seen in our Archived News Letters.

David Calvert-Orange

Chairman and Founding Sponsor

David Calvert-Orange has been an educationalist all his working life, first as a House Tutor and House Master at a boarding School and then as Head of history and Religious Education at a boys’ Preparatory School. He ended his full time teaching career as Public Relations Officer at a special needs school before he semi-retired to pursue both his passion for Ancient Egypt and his desire to help the destitute in India through forming Wheel of Hope Charitable Trust.

The second of these two concerns has occupies virtually all his spare time in promoting and fundraising for Wheel of Hope in the UK and also he spends a large part of each year in India with Pamela where they supervise new developments and show foreign guests round Happy home.

He has overseen the founding and development of the projects which have brought the Trust to the state in which it is today and passionately believes that each child of whatever ability should be educated according to his or her full potential.

He has been greatly concerned with the plight of those in the fishing village of Vizhingham where many young boys have had to forsake their education in order to earn money to maintain the family.

To countermand this end he has developed a scheme whereby poor families can keep their children at school and bright children can participate in some form of vocational training that will end the continuous chain of fishermen breeding fishermen.

It is his ultimate aim to create a system of Tuition Homes through which the cost of maintaining and educating the child is taken from the family.

Pamela Nolan

Treasurer/Secretary and Founding Sponsor

Pamela Nolan has worked in the field of commerce and travel and gained much practical experience in the way of running organizations as a P.A at the London Palladium for many years.

In her later life she has also had experience as a Tour Leader and was Co-Director of Sapphire Tours in Folkestone.

She became interested in Ancient Egypt after joining one of David Calvert-Orange’s tours of Egypt and after several years of helping him organise tours, they decided to sell their houses in the south and jointly open an Egyptology Centre in South Yorkshire. This in reality has become a means to fundraising for the charity.

They formed the Charity in the year 2000 which has evolved into Wheel of Hope and their trips to India for the charity give them the drive and determination to do whatever was necessary to improve the lot of the children.

Ancient Egypt has become a ‘side line’ to raise funds for the Trust and now Pamela presides over ‘cow evenings’ creating memorable meals for up to 15 guests for the same purpose. She is also responsible for the accounts which was an aspect of the Palladium life she fortunately greatly enjoyed

Origins …

Millennium Star Cricket Club

We started back in 2000 as the Millennium Star Cricket Club which was formed to encourage children to attend school. In return for membership the children promised to go to school. Though education in India is free, children have to wear school uniform and provide their own books and writing equipment so for the poor it’s not possible. But we provided the school uniform and equipment.

Wheel of Hope is born

Within a year we had our first Tuition Centre at Krishnan’s house in Chowara. This was such a success and the inspiration for all our work and expansion programmes. It operated as a Tuition Centre, educating children for a few hours in the morning and then again in the early evening giving approximately 4 – 5 hours a day of schooling.

We catered for two types of pupil, the destitute who cannot afford proper schooling and those pupils whose parents are anxious for their children to advance who go to ordinary schools as well. They normally have topay for their child attending extra tuition and the poorer children have to work during normal school times. The majority of our pupils are from very poor homes where one parent is missing or very much incapacitated. Due to dwindling numbers we have now closed our Centre at Chowara and have concentrated all our efforts on the fishing village of Vishinjam.

The Cricket Club is very special to us because Wheel of Hope started through it and also the game itself is one that India loves so much.

With the incredible development of Wheel of Hope into the organisation that it is today we still maintain our club and hope cricketing organisations who might like to form links of friendship and not only learn about Wheel of Hope but possibly even visiting our projects and adding to their funding.

Many children cannot play organised cricket or football unless some organisation or other is able to fund them. Wheel of Hope does this, whatever their creed or background. These pictures show the terrible conditions under which the boys have to play. The boys cannot afford to join a local cricket club or even hire a ground for a morning.

Wheel of Hope wants to foster links with Cricket Clubs in order to provide funding so that the poor can enjoy the game under conditions that has made India the great cricketing nation that it is. However the tragedy of the situation is that there are countless numbers for whom the game is a dream. They can fantasise on a coconut grove but with help their incredible skills could achieve their full potential.

Wheel of Hope has provided cricket bats, stumps and balls but we hope to be able to do much more.

The Alex Cole Memorial Football Club

Is another aspect of Wheel of Hope’s outreach policy. It has been created in love and sympathy for Alex Cole a young boy in England who was killed in a tragic incident. This boy, who had just entered his first year of Secondary School, is remembered through the formation of a football club in England. He loved this game so much and Wheel of Hope wanted to forge links of sympathy and understanding with the family of Alex knowing that in his name so much good is being done in India through providing pleasure and sporting activity to those who would otherwise be unable to experience this.

Sure boys can kick something round and call it football, but it is not quite the same thing as being part of an organisation.

Today both the cricket and football matches are being played in the coconut grove where the original club was formed six years ago. This is not only to honour what is in reality a very special place but to show people the lack of facilities experienced by the vast majority of Indian children.

Again we appeal for help by any organisation who would like to sponsor.

Here is a photograph of the inaugural match of the Wheel of Hope Alex Cole Memorial Football Club played on 26th November 2006.

(Top-left) | Man of the match for tackling a much older boy proudly holds the cup.

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