Christmas Gifts

We annually provide study material as Christmas presents for more than 800 – 1000 poor children and widows.

In December 2022, we sent more than £2,150 worth of Christmas presents to the poor
& needy in Batticaloa, Pita Kotte, Dehiwela and Trichy. Rev Karunanithi, Rev Kathireson
and Br Stephen coordinated these projects for Bridge of Love. Jonathan & Lydia Joseph
initiated and coordinated a £150 worth Homeless Christmas project, providing hygiene
essentials, bedding and lunch packets to the homeless people living in the streets
/roadside in the suburbs of Chennai

In December 2021, we sent more than £2,712 worth of Christmas presents to the poor & needy in Batticaloa, Pita Kotte, Dehiwela and Trichy. Rev Karunanithi, Rev Kathireson and Br Stephen coordinated these projects for Bridge of Love.

In December 2020, we sent more than £3,432 worth of Christmas presents to the poor & needy in Jaffna, Batticaloa, Mannar, Pita Kotte, Dehiwela and Trichy. Jaffna Ashram leader, Rev Karunanithi, Rev Kathireson and Br Stephen coordinated these projects for Bridge of Love.

In December 2019, we sent more than £2,950 worth Christmas presents to more than 950 children, 54 widows and 10 disabled in Batticaloa, Valaichchennai, Mullaitheevu, Puthukkudiyirrupu, Pitakotte and Trichy. Rev Karunanithi, Bro Yoganathan, Rev Suresh Paul, Rev Kathireson, and Jayakumar coordinated these projects for Bridge of Love.

Water Supply

In 2022, Bro Jesuthasan donated £850 for the construction of a tube well in the Vavuniya and coordinated this project as well.

Bro Jesuthasan organised, coordinated and donated £500 for the construction of a tube well in in Kallaru, Kilinochchi in 2021.

2016 – Well Construction in Batticaloa for £1,046

Heavy rains caused flooding across Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka in November 2013. The resettled people of Puthukkudiyirrupu who were living in the half-cleared jungles in Thimbili and Aaththupilavu villages were very badly affected by these floods. In addition to very limited access to basic necessities, snakes were a day to day problem as well. Broken bridges caused a critical transportation problem as the villagers were unable to do their day to day work. Children could not go to school and the bread winner of each family was unable to go to work during this time. Bridge of Love sent more than £2500 for the flood and war relief projects carried out by the Hope Centre. With this donation, the Centre was able to reconstruct the broken bridges and construct a tube well and provided flood relief to the affected people. Over 100 families benefited through this project.

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Jun 2009  – Vavuniya Hospital

We donated 20 lt bottled drinking water and dispensers to the surgical, women’s, children’s, mental health, ICU, operating theatre etc. averaging Rs 100,000/- per mensem.