The Kondakarla children’s home visit of 26 September 2021

The trust’s records hold one folder for the children’s home at Kondakarla: 15 photographs, all from one day, 26 September 2021.

Dates in this post are the dates in the file names of the photographs on the volunteers’ phones.

The day in the pictures

Volunteers and children sit together in a bright room. Several children are in wheelchairs and special seats. Baskets of bananas, oranges and bottles of juice stand on the floor, and volunteers have brought groceries as well. A girl in a blue dress looks at the camera. A volunteer helps a child with a meal. In one photograph, volunteers and staff stand in a group with the children for a record of the visit.

What a visit like this is for

A children’s home usually has more needs than money. Food, fruit and groceries are useful, but the children also need people who stay. The visit of 26 September 2021 is one of the earliest dated visits in the records, and later folders show that visits to children’s homes continued until July 2026.

Respect for the children

The trust does not publish the children’s names with their photographs. It asks the caretaker before taking pictures, and it removes a picture on request. Children in homes are not exhibits; the photographs exist to show donors that the gift reached the home.

How you can help a home like this

• Ask the caretaker what is needed: groceries, fruit, clothes, school things or a repair.
• Give through the caretaker so that every child receives something.
• Come back. A second visit means more than a large first one.

Read the children’s homes page for the other visits in the records. The trust number is 97036 30893 (call and PhonePe).