Contribution of a Missionary

A.K. Roba: The Diocese have started the Slum Hostel in the month of February 2009 with 24 slum children under the Durgapur Child Study Centre organized by Diocese Women Fellowship headed by Mrs. Rita Dutta, President of DWFCS. The very beginning of the Hostel Mrs. Lynn Coulthard, Missionary from Western North Carolina Diocese, U.S.A. had resided in the Missionary Flat of our Diocese in the same Hostel Building and looked after the children. She loves the children too much individually. She knows every child by their name. She also knows each necessity of all-102 children of the Centre. She visited the houses of the children and as per need of the family she fulfilled their requirements and helped. When the new admission started in the govt. school of the locality she was very much worried for admission some of the children. There is no birth certificate of these children. Day by day she went to the school and talked with the School Authority for their admission. As per the instruction of the School authority she prepared affidavit from the Civil Court. But the School authority again turned down the admission. I shall never forget when she expressed her wariness and about the admission of the children in front of us. We realized that day about her love, affection, kindness, worry for the Children and her Motherly attitude had over whelming to us. It is an example and lesson for us about her exam-plenary attitude and services as a human being. At last after long fight with the School Authority she got admitted the left-out children in the local govt. school two days before leaving India and was very much satisfied before leaving this countryShe started a Kitchen Garden to produce vegetables for the hostel children. The quantity of production was in low scale. But one-day before leaving India she donated a POWER TILLER (HAND TRACTOR) to cultivate the vegetables for the use of the hostel children. In this rainy season, now Diocese has started cultivation in large scale so that the children of the hostel will be benefited. We shall never forget her help through to the Diocese and her love and affection shown the good of the children..