Dear Friends,

Greetings from People's Watch!

SANGAMAM is a summer camp for the children who almost lost their childhood. This is being organized by People’s Watch; one of the pioneer Human Rights organization in India, supported by a large family of committed people from the arena of Human Rights.

In our attempt to achieve holistic welfare of the people we work with, every summer it is our endeavor to organize a summer camp for the children of the victims of human rights violations or child victims themselves with whom we have already come into contact or within whom we have established links in the course of the year. These children are not children that one would come across everyday; they are children who have been forced to grow up overnight, missing out on their childhood that so many of us cherished.

SANGAMAM, was first organized in the year 2000 with just 20 children. The number of children grew every year, challenging us to initiative better activities that needed much more planning and resources.

This year we are expecting about 500 children from all around Tamilnadu to take part in re-discovering their childhood at SANGAMAM 09.

SANGAMAM 09 will be held on 9^th to 17^th of May 2009 at Mahatma School, Alagarkovil, Madurai. The total cost for the camp is Rs. 7, 50,000 which is roughly Rs 1,500 per child.

We hope you will join us in this endeavor to celebrate the individual and the re – birth of childhood at SANGAMAM by making generous contributions. We would like to insist that your contribution can be both in kind and in cash. For your convenience, you can also draft a cheque / Demand draft favouring Centre for Promotion of Social Concerns, Madurai

Thanking you

Yours sincerely,

(Henri Tiphagne)

Executive Director

We expect your hands to touch each child and say we are there for you.

(For further information, please contact)

Ms. Veena Shankar, Director, F & A, People's Watch

E-mail: veena@pwtn.org, Mobile Number: +919994368570