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THROUGH THE LENS
Mission Projects and events at St. Andrew's
Helping Hands Mission work
Joubert Gnanamuttu has taken over from Maureen Gennard as
co-ordinator for the Helping Hands programme, once Maureen
migrated to the UK last October to join her husband.
Joubert is enjoying his new role as it keeps him occupied during
his retirement and he sees it as a privilege to be working with
the community which is less fortunate. He thanks God to have
the opportunity to do this.
Joubert spends time visiting the Helping Hands families in their
homes to get a rst hand view of the challenging conditions in
which they live, to gain a better assessment of the families'
needs.
We do not have unlimited funds at the Church but he hopes to
nd the means to help families with more dry rations and attend
to their health issues, subsidising medical bills. He would like to
organise help for them to travel to the hospital because most
are not strong enough to take public transport and the cost of a
3Wheeler is too high. Many families struggle to manage their
own situation but they are also burdened with help and care of
parents and elderly relations.
There is much work to do.
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