Newly Weds Give Hope & Health to Total Strangers
Newly Weds Give Hope & Health to Total Strangers Why helping across the globe DOES make a difference. By Sunyata Choyce Every year my small NGO Project COLORS chooses a few families to assist when they are in desperate need of relief due to unpredictable circumstances. Meet Sulochana’s family in Betticaola, Sri Lanka. The head of the house hold, Sulochana, has been slowly going blind and needed corrective surgery. Her teenage son was diagnosed with Leukemia and needed special care and transport to go Colombo once a month, over a 12 hour drive! Five other family members including an almost blind 90 year old grandmother live in a tin roof home made of mud and sticks over a floor of sand. When I saw the grandmother, I was saddend at her state. She was sitting in a dark room in the corner on loose old boards which were meant to be a bed. She was shocked at first at my presence in her home, but soon gave me a big toothless grin excited to have a