Sri Lanka

We pray for our ‘50 miles’ January walking challenge, in support of the Kadella Centre in Sri Lanka, giving thanks for all those taking part. Please pray for: - deeper donor relationships through the 50 miles challenge - a successful start to our fundraising year - the team at the Kadella Centre, working with people affected by HIV/AIDS - HIV+ children benefitting from the feeding programme we fund - an end to discrimination and stigma for those affected by HIV/AIDS in Sri Lanka.

On the 25th December as we celebrate Christmas and see out the year, give thanks for God’s provision for our work. Please pray for: - God’s blessing on our faithful donors & supporters, giving thanks for their generosity - wisdom and encouragement for our international partners, many facing economic and political challenges. - wisdom, inspiration and encouragement for our staff, trustees, shops teams and volunteers, giving thanks for all they do for vulnerable children.

In the week before Christmas, praise God for Jesus! We remember children who experience - as He did - inadequate housing and poverty. Please pray for children like: • *Henry, living in a tumbledown shack on a patch of land liable to flooding in Kampala, with his mum, both of whom are HIV+, • twins *Percy and *Polly, living in a tiny shack in Kibera, Kenya, with their grandmother who makes and sells an illicit brew • displaced children in Myanmar and South Sudan • the children of Dehiwela beach slum in Sri Lanka.

Local partner Russell de Alwis is church relations and training coordinator at LEADS, an organisation in Sri Lanka which works with abused and traumatised children. Praise God for the time and effort Russell has invested in awareness-raising programmes for parents and children over the past year. Pray for children to be rescued from abuse as more people learn to recognise the signs of child abuse and speak up on their behalf.