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VeAhavta March 2009 Enewsletter

Grace Review
Grace Responds to Crisis in Sri Lanka
With help from generous donors and friends, the staff at Grace Care Center has been able to provide direct assistance to the latest survivors of the civil war in Sri Lanka. The war may be winding down, but it certainly is not over. Learn More

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Children of Grace
Children of Grace
Meet: M. Kavitha
Date of Birth: July 12, 1991
Kavitha lost her father to the war while still an infant, and her mother to illness in 2001. An aunt brought her to Grace Home in 2003, and her few remaining family members were last known to be in Mullaitivu, the district north of Trincomalee that has been the recent battleground in the civil war. Learn More
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Profile in Dignity
Profile in Dignity
Meet: Poonaiya Muthulingam
Mr. Kitnan was unable to continue working as a farmer, due to heart disease and asthma, when he joined the Mercy Home family. No longer married, he and his children left Batticaloa after the 2006 combat actions in Muthur, south of the bay from Trincomalee. Learn More
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News in Review

 

Dinner to launch ‘Grace’ book / Evening to raise funds for friends
Four years ago, Sri Lanka was a frequent topic for many in southeast Michigan. In the Ann Arbor Area, Dr. Naresh Gunaratnam and the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital community planned a tsunami-inspired relief mission that, in February 2005, sent doctors, nurses and others to the Grace Care Center orphanage in Trincomalee. Learn More

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Tragedy hits close to Grace Home
Included in the tragedies of last month’s battles in the northeastern Mullaitivu district was a personal loss for Rev. J. Gnanapragasam, Grace Care Center manager. While “Rev. Gnana,” as he’s known to Grace visitors, was at Trincomalee General Hospital helping those wounded in the battles, his brother and sister in law were among the civilians who were killed in the conflict zone, about 40 miles north of Trinco. Learn More
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