News – Page 12 – Friends of Mithra

THE AUSTRALIAN CONNECTION

By Friends of MithraJanuary 04, 2017Comments Disabled

Throughout her many years in India Sr Mary Theodore never forgot her other home – Australia. She welcomed countless Australian visitors, including the Australian High Commissioner from Delhi and successive Australian Consuls in Chennai. Mrs Janette...

AN AFTERNOON AT HULA HOOP, ADELAIDE

Events

AN AFTERNOON AT HULA HOOP, ADELAIDE

By Friends of MithraDecember 14, 2016Comments Disabled

Sunday the 11th of December was the first real opportunity for the friends of MITHRA in Adelaide to get together and hear about the vision of Friends of Mithra. Around thirty people, who had all had a connection to MITHRA over the years, came together...

Champagne Afternoon Tea

Events, Fundraising

Champagne Afternoon Tea

By Friends of MithraNovember 29, 2016Comments Disabled

Friends of Mithra held a wonderful Champagne Afternoon Tea on Sunday 27th November at the apartment of Andy Greig and Ingrid Ashby. Andy and Ingrid graciously opened their magnificent home to 80 friends who enjoyed lots of French champagne and delicious...

Marshalamni, Leelavathi and Shanthi – Essential service

Mithra

Marshalamni, Leelavathi and Shanthi – Essential service

By Friends of MithraNovember 21, 2016Comments Disabled

Three times a day – breakfast, lunch and dinner – one hundred and fifty Mithra residents head for the Dining Hall to be served a nutritious meal. Most of the meals are prepared and cooked in the attached kitchen by the cook and his wife. But...

M Subramanyam – Faithful service

Mithra

M Subramanyam – Faithful service

By Friends of MithraNovember 21, 2016Comments Disabled

If you ever wish to see the smiling face of Mithra, then M Subramanyam is it. No one at Mithra is more gracious or welcoming than Subramanyam. He came to Mithra in 1989. Sr Mary Theodore had taken a keen interest in developing the physical and intellectual...

Kondama – Doing small things with great love

Mithra

Kondama – Doing small things with great love

By Friends of MithraNovember 21, 2016Comments Disabled

Recently with Mother Teresa being declared a Saint by the Church, we recall her many pearls of wisdom. To encourage us to perform daily acts of kindness, Mother Teresa reminded us: “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with...

M Saravanakumar – Mithra’s Physiotherapist

Mithra

M Saravanakumar – Mithra’s Physiotherapist

By Friends of MithraNovember 21, 2016Comments Disabled

Mithra is very fortunate to have a Physiotherapist. It was always part of Sr Mary Theodore’s vision that the disabled children of the poor, deserved on-going professional therapy. She was appalled to discover that many physiotherapists in Madras who...

Hemalatha Chena – Mithra School Principal

Mithra

Hemalatha Chena – Mithra School Principal

By Friends of MithraNovember 21, 2016Comments Disabled

From the beginning in 1977, Sr Mary Theodore knew that physically and intellectually challenged children could live much better lives if they received help from the relevant professionals. Rehabilitation was Sister’s “buzz” word. She had discovered...

Incredibly sad news

Mithra

Incredibly sad news

By Friends of MithraOctober 23, 2016Comments Disabled

The incredibly sad news arrived today of the sudden death on Dinesh. D. – a beloved and special resident of Mithra. Dinesh was one of the most unassuming and least demanding children at Mithra. Confined to a wheelchair because of his debilitating muscular...

Principals from Australia & PNG

Guests

Principals from Australia & PNG

By Friends of MithraOctober 23, 2016Comments Disabled

Seven special guests from Australia and PNG visited Mithra at the end of September. These guests: Carmel Ellis, Ivan Banks, Jon Franzin, Peter Sindu, Peter Chapman, Michael Carroll and Damian Messer, – Principals of Edmund Rice Schools – spent...