Buds of Christ

The girls in rural areas are least encouraged towards education, especially in communities that are disadvantaged by caste and economic class. In addition, if the girls are from widow-headed households the opportunities for education are very limited. It is for such families, Buds of Christ is providing education support to orphan girls in rural areas. Encouraging education among rural girls means empowering widow mothers, realize the need for girl education, support the rural girls with life skills education to cope up with pressures and monetary support for educational materials and uniforms. The needs have been partially met through friends, partners and well-wishers of Buds of Christ. Over the last three years, Buds of Christ has been able to support orphan girls to continue education in schools and more than 20 girls have moved into higher education. Almost all of these girls are the first generation entry graduates. One such successful case of a rural girl out of the first ...

This year the   theme of the World AIDS day was Getting to Zero and we at Buds believe this can happen when the already affected people are also encouraged and motivated to live a positive life. Buds of Christ commemorated the 2015 world AIDS day in encouraging young adolescents in salem and smaller children in Tiruchengode along with care takers to be confident and live a life with hope and dignity. The uniqueness of this year programme was the young people living with HIV and affected by HIV of Buds of Christ (Buds Leaders) had planned and executed the event. The programme was conducted on 5th of Dec at Salem and 12th of Dec 2015 at Tiruchengode. In the salem group the 20   participants were mostly   young adolescents in the age group of 14 and above and at Tiruchengode, the 15 smaller children were in the age group of   5 and 12 years old. Both the programmes were organised at government Hospital ART centres. The programme included a choreo, skit, ...

" In my current circumstances it is impossible to study further, but it has been your support that is helping me personally to keep my dream alive" - Pavithra Pavithra is 17 year old doing her B.Com 1st year in an Arts and Science College. Her mother has not been in school and was widowed when Pavithra was just 5 years old. With no education, her mother has been working as a daily wage (coolie) worker in the agriculture fields and managing the needs of Pavithra and her brother. Pavithra's brother and her mother are affected by a chronic health condition and sometimes this affects her mother's earning. When Pavithra completed her 10th with Good grades, relatives from her family side wanted her to be married. Being a widow, though her opinions are not strongly accepted, but she stood firm and expressed interest of education her daughter until  graduation. On asking her mother how she was so firm in educating her daughter, she expressed " I know the pain...

The Buds leadership camp for 2015 was organised on the theme Awake, Arise and Shine at House of Peace, Yercuad from 26th to 30th of May 2015. The leadership camp is primarily organised in building future leaders from the families reached through Buds of Christ to reach out to young children and youth belonging to challenging circumstances. The camp outcome is to enable the youngsters to focus and encourage young people like them to live the future with hope and courage. The main aspects of the camp were on motivational sessions by external consultants, action songs, dance and reflective (personal and group) exercises that enabled the participants to be more involved in the learning. The First day themed AWAKE : The participants were guided in understanding their self worth through demonstrative sessions by Mr. Santharaj from Salem. The key learning the participants gained was each one has been born with potential that is masked by low self worth that is projected throug...