In the October of 1997 I went to church one Sunday like I did each and every other Sunday. However, this day was different, this day the speaker was a guest speaker who has come all the way from India. He spoke about how he grew up in an orphanage in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and shared that he himself had also started his own orphanage.  

To say I was riveted by his message would be an understatement, I knew that day that my life would never be the same. To cut a long story short and to spare you all the details, I became the Australian
Representative, a role which I continued for the next 10 years and one which I recently passed on to a third party so I could concentrate on All Things Indian.

In the October of 1997 I went to church one Sunday like I did each and every other Sunday. However, this day was different, this day the speaker was a guest speaker who has come all the way from
India. He spoke about how he grew up in an orphanage in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, and shared that he himself had also started his own orphanage.  
 
To say I was riveted by his message would be an understatement, I knew that day that my life would never be the same. To cut a long story short and to spare you all the details, I became the Australian
Representative, a role which I continued for the next 10 years and one which I recently passed on to a third party so I could concentrate on All Things Indian.
 
I had been the Australian Rep for around 3 years, with many emails going to and from both countries, needless to say when a supporter offered to pay my fare to visit the orphanage I was extremely excited about the prospect. I visited the first time in the March of 2000 and on that visit I was treated to the most amazing experience of my life. At that stage there were 400 children living in the care of the ICMC and the director shared with me many of the plans he had for the future.  
 
I have travelled there many times and my most recent journey in Oct 2007 was testament to the vision of this extraordinary man. The orphanage is now called home by over 2,000 children in their full time care, and now plans are underway to expand that number by an extra 1,000 children in village programmes.
 
I have always been on the look out for ways to increase the financial support for these children, to improve their quality of life and to save more children from the street from a life of poverty and destitution and for many a premature death.  
 
On the same trip last October I was privileged to visit Delhi and an amazing group of people living in this great city. During one evening we were guests at a house meeting and at the end of the meeting the host asked us if she could show us some of the items that they made in their small factory. I took one look at the goods and thought, “This is it, this is the exact thing that I have been looking for”. That evening All Things Indian was born.

I came home and tossed some ideas around with some friends and very quickly assembled the management team. This team is very excited about the future, about providing life where life does not exist, to provide food and shelter for unfortunate children, where food and shelter do not exist, to provide health care, where health care does not exist and to provide hope, where hope does not exist.

We are looking for people, good people! If you think that you are a person who could join with us in our endeavours we would love to talk to you.