July 2012
Take responsibility for the things you do as well as for the things you failed to do! It has not rained for months in the mountains around the children’s village Mahagedara. There are bush fires all over which destroy a mayor part of the refuge areas for wild animals such as elephants or mountain hares. Has the mother been killed by hunters or stray dogs or has she died in the flames? In any case, without help the hare baby would not survive a single day – even with the greatest possible care the chances are not good. Anusha feeds the baby with drops of milk. In August she celebrates her 17th birthday, and her greatest wish is to celebrate it with her new fosterling.
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March 2012
Those who have lived with all their heart several months in Little Smile with and for children have learnt something very important:
There is one thing that increases the more you give away from it – love!
And those lucky enough to work in the Wisdom house with the little girls, experience how good it is that there is a place of smile somewhere in the jungle of Sri Lanka’s mountains.
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January 2012
15 days after the New Years Eve has been celebrated all over the world, the Hindus pay homage to the sun on Thai Pongal. Then one day later livestock, first of all the cows, are the center of worship. Throughout the year they serve humans, give their power and milk. On Mattu Pongal they are adorned, fed with sweet rice and blesse
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d. On the Little Smile farm in Dikkapitia too, the animals were especially pampered on January 16th. Here, Michael Kreitmeir himself fed the cows with honey rice. Thus the children in the village as well as the workers from the farm experience living traditions and the deeper sense of festivals of all different religions.
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December 2011
At Christmas we wanted to bring joy to those who live in darkness.
Even 16 months after Michael Kreitmeir was in prison, he did not forget the prisoners in Monaragala. Therefore the children from Little Smile celebrated Christmas with the prisoners. The Christmas meal was prepared at the farm - for those forgotten, there are no presents. But as the children begin to sing and dance, those imprisoned are able to forget for a moment the walls and bars around them and in that moment, Christmas becomes real.
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November 2011
Tears and the fear of tomorrow – with 33 years this woman is standing at her husband’s coffin. She has 5 children, the youngest not yet one year old. As a widow she will fall to the bottom of the social ladder, although she is completely destitute already. Especially in rural areas, and there particularly among the Tamils living in the mountains, alcohol abuse is the most frequent cause of death. Many of the men die before they reach the age of 40. And mostly they leave far younger women behind with children who have hardly no perspective.
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