Children of Belarus

Children in Nigeria

Cebu City, Philippines

Mainya has been with the Metta Centre Nepal for 12 years and now her hard work and endeavour has been rewarded with a government scholarship to study medicine in China.

Bruna Brazil sings for peace

Our "Archie"

Saba and Hana send their best wishes and drawings to everone from England.

Kurbie from Philippines says hello to all her new friends.

Photographs show Kurbie with mummy - and a very unusual distinction - Kurbie is the youngest of 4 generations of family in A Ray of Hope.

Vee and his fish say hello from India

Lucy helps a sick calf. Northern Ireland

From Japan

From Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima, Japan

Rhea, India

Rhea , India has been volunteering her time in several social initiatives in her colony since the last 4 years.

This month, decided she wanted to bring some smiles on little faces.... She, along with her classmate Sunayna, organized a very interesting "straw game" for disadvantaged children at Henny Penny Library #1. The children were split into teams of 2 - a boy and a girl in each team. The boys had to weave as many straws as they could in the girl's hair in 1 minute... It was the most entertaining minute for all the participants. 2 team prizes were given away - a set of 2 story books for each of the 4 winners.

The biggest reward was 50 smiling faces :)

From "Lady" India

             Why?

Wherever I go asking for donation, people ask me why I would “waste” my time doing this and why I don’t go, sit at home and study, frankly I’d rather spend my time doing this because it not only helps me feel like a better person but it makes people happy, inspires other children to be doing the same thing and what not, some people think I do this so that it looks good on my college application, some think it’s because I want fame, and some think my parents force me to be doing this, to be true I don’t think any of us kids doing this least care about a college degree or fame, it makes us happy and so we do it. A few weeks ago me and my friend were really bored, we had nothing to do and so we took out a sheet, scribbled a few things on and wrote why we wanted people to donate to poor children, we thought about handing out flyers but we almost forgot that we had to be the change we want to see in people, and so we set out and collected donation from the apartments we live in, we had collected enough money to feed about 20 children, seeing their faces after they are given such a small thing like biscuits is something that cannot be expressed by words, cookies, we can eat those every day, but 1 pack of them can make a child’s day,  their joyous faces lighten up your mood for days, it makes me wonder that I want an i-phone, a new T.V but all they want are normal everyday things like toothbrushes, books, toffees, towels, soap, etc. If this is all they want why do we need more? We are all human, none of us have super-ultimate needs, then why can’t we be happy in what we have, we are lucky enough to have it, and you will realise that once you see the look on the little kids faces full of joy when they receive a piece of candy.  Most of my friends were not too excited but since my mom does this and my dad is very generous with everyone who asks for his help, I think they have passed on the same emotions to me. When we were done distributing cookies and biscuits me and my friends could not wait to do this again. Last year we actually put up a stall for selling cupcakes and cookies, all the money that we got was given to Arnimaal so that they could buy books and games for more children. This tells you that we kids don’t “waste” our time doing this, we use this time to make people happy, make ourselves better people, and of course spread the message, so next time you see a kid standing at your door step asking for donation, DO NOT THINK TWICE! Just do it, trust me.

-Eshaa

Bruna from Brazil sends her love and best wishes

Katie and Cassie, TJ and Henny, Kevin and Murphy say hello from Northern Ireland.

Edward from Estonia

 My name is Edward and I live in Estonia and I send  greetings to the children all over the world.

I wish that there could be peace and that every child could have a home.

 

Quaver says "Woof Woof" from Ireland

Henny Penny, India

Lucy and assistant "Elli"

Daniel, David and Deborah - England

Hello from Daniel, David and Deborah to all the members of A Mini Ray of Hope - we will help mummy to help the children in Nigeria.

Chitty and Children Northern Ireland Drive the Message Forward.

Young students from India spread the peace message.