AMEN TRUST (Registered charitable trust 30/13K IV, 2004, A.P. India), Nallamadu Village, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, South India
ManASVI
Evangeline, Ashok and their children outside the new Amen Trust orphanage building
Evangeline and Ashok Kareedi are a young Evangelist Christian couple who met in 2002 as volunteers for Prima Jyoti, a secular organization working and fund raising to relieve the plight of the rural poor in the West Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh, South India. Evangeline (Founder) is a graduate in Commerce and Ashok (Charity Manager) is a graduate Paramedic working full time at a local Government hospital. In 2004 with the encouragement of their fathers, both Pastors of their churches, the couple registered Amen Trust with the aim of raising money internationally for an orphanage. The orphanage is now built on 4 acres of farmland in the village of Nallamadu and is the charity’s base. There is a three phase electricity supply to the site and a new bore well for a reliable supply of clean water. Evangeline and Ashok are pictured above at the orphanage building with their own two children Christy and John Paul.
Nallamudu is a typical small village in a remote area of many similar villages. Roads and communications are poor. The area is wholly agricultural with some fish farming and processing industries for rice, sugar, and dairy products. Incomes are low, unemployment common, and many villagers are very poor. A small proportion of the population are tribal people. The climate is tropical and extremely hot and wet during the monsoon. This is an area where young children develop a fever and die without ever seeing a doctor. The combined horrors of typhoid, TB, and polio are still a threat in these remote and isolated villages. Lives are lost here for the want of relatively small amounts of money. Medical aid is badly needed
Amen Trust are seeking long term partners who will join them to fund the care of up to 40 children they have identified in surrounding villages as in desperate need of care (annual cost £7,500). This project may interest church groups on the Island who wish to be involved with fellow Christians in the rescue of very needy rural children in South India. Please contact ManASVI for further information.
Amen Trust welcome visitors who are interested in their work and can arrange short term volunteering. Enquiries may be made to ManASVI initially. Volunteers will pay all travelling and accommodation costs.