The Christchurch Rotary Club has been learning how its generosity has helped improve life in an impoverished village in South India.
David Todd and his wife Maureen, from the charity Reaching the Unreached (RTU), delivered an inspiring talk to Rotarians and showed a moving video about how life is improving in one small village in the state of Tamil Nadu.
The club, working with the Primrose Trust, has helped to fund the building of a small basic house for villagers. Alongside the wider work of RTU to build a school, clinic, hostel, hospice and other small dwellings in the village, the lives of some of the most disadvantaged and poorest people in southern India are gradually being improved.
RTU was set up in 1974 by the late James Kimpton who was a former teacher at St Peter’s School in Bournemouth.
David Todd is a former headteacher of St Peter’s and travelled out to Tamil Nadu to see for himself how funding is making a difference.
RTU aims to empower the most marginalised people in South India by providing housing, food and water, healthcare, sanitation and other support. David’s video showed how funding is helping to change the lives of children, families and those suffering from serious illness.
Kelvin Medley-Jones, a former pupil of St Peter’s School who, with his wife Pippa, founded the Primrose Trust, gave a vote of thanks.