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Mar 17 2009 By Samantha Booth WHEN Scots nurse Gillie Davidson set up Scottish Love in Action 10 years ago, her dream was to help some of India's orphans escape the kind of destitution portrayed in Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire. Children orphaned to Aids, murder or suicide and who had been forced into prostitution, begging and life on the streets. Or youngsters born into the lowest social caste and who faced a life of abuse and prejudice. The 63-year-old, from Edinburgh, knew that if she provided food, clothes, shelter and an education their lives would be changed beyond measure. What she could never have imagined was that 10 years later not only would her tiny operation be funding the care and schooling of hundreds of children, but that five of them would be starting new lives at university. Gillie said: "These... [read full story]
It is difficult and expensive to travel to Jaffna (Photos: Ananda Jayasekara) It has been six months since the end of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka, but normality has yet to return to the Tamil cultural heartland of Jaffna,...
