For the last eight years, the Barnabas Almsgiving Fund has helped meet the needs of a loosely knit community of about seventy Catholics in southern India. (See a five-minute video history of this project.)  Our highest priority has been to pay for the educational needs of the children, since this is the best means to both form them in Christian faith and enable them to escape from generational poverty. In serving this community, we are blessed to have the collaboration of Sr. Anne Antony and a devout laywoman, Kala Kelley.

The total annual cost of tuition for primary and secondary Catholic education and university studies for the fifty students we serve is normally about $20,000 per year. But this year it will cost more due to the necessity of acquiring laptops or tablets so students can do their studies online amid Covid 19. (Covid cases are numerous among India’s urban poor.)

In previous years one generous couple paid a large share of the tuition expenses; this year they are not able to do so. Nevertheless, God has helped us. Beginning with a $6,000 gift in February, we have received about $15,000 for children’s tuition, leaving a shortfall of about $10,000 in tuition bills and money for computers.

Please pray that the entire need will be met very soon, and give whatever you are able. We have so much, and they have so little! And the Lord knows how to repay generously! “Whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully…. God loves a cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9:6, 7).

You can make a tax-deductible gift through the Barnabas Almsgiving Fund. Thanks for whatever you are able to do!