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Dear all! I’m back from India and am happy to tell you about my stay with the widows. This time I felt the contrast between my 1st and 2nd home country very strongly: I left the darkness, cold, political uncertainty and war atmosphere in Germany at the beginning of January and arrived in warmth, joy, […]

Dear all! It is time again to wish you all a blessed Christmas and much peace, health, love and happiness in the New Year. All the staff in the USA, Germany and India and also our women, who experience a humane existence in the Om Shanthi Home through your kind donations, share in these good […]

Dear all! Thanks to your kind donations, the time has finally come: On 19.8.2024 early in the morning, Mother Earth was asked with a ceremony to give her blessing for the construction of our Om Shanthi computer room. The date for this “Bhumi Puja” was determined by priests. This puja was performed by our Manoharan, […]

Dear all! The response to our plan to build a classroom for our widow and village children in the garden of Om Shanthi Old Age Home (see my newsletter of March 24) has been unreservedly positive. Here again, in brief, is the great importance of computer education for the children of our young widows, not […]

After several weeks again this winter (late Jan. – Mar.) spending time living with our dear widows at the Old Age Home, Paulette and I have arrived home. As always, saying goodbye was difficult. Om Shanthi Old Age Home is becoming more and more a second home for us, and the women have become as […]

It’s that time again: The rice fields have been harvested and the ripe peanuts are growing on the still green fields. Plucked out of the ground in bunches, lying on the road, waiting for workers to separate the peanuts from the drying greenery – which will be used to feed the cows. With that, our imminent departure […]

After a very challenging pre-travel paperwork/ computerized protocol, Anna and I  arrived safely in India, mid-January with our 30 day visa, and other multiple required documentation due to Covid, in hand. Omicron is fairly quiet in Tiruvannamalai, though many here lost multiple family members and friends due to Delta.  At the time of our arrival, […]

  We are very happy to announce that our Om Shanthi Old Age Home was awarded as best Old Age Home in the district of Tamil Nadu. Rhada, Mary and Dyothi, residents of our home, had the honour to receive the award from the district officials. The event shows the excellent work done by Manoharan […]

The Pandemic continues We are deeply touched by your interest and compassion, which has been expressed by you since we saw pictures of the catastrophic Corona situation in North India on TV. Many of you have already ask for information about the situation in Tamil Nadu. We thank you very much for your deep concern […]

Curfew in and around our town Tiruvannamalai and the villages We hope you are fine at home during these auspicious times, where most of the world populationis curfewed more or less in order to fight the Corona-virus. In gratefulness to many people, who do services relentlessly in supermarkets, transporting food in lorries, hospitals, pharmacies, police, […]