The Dornakal Fund for the Needy is managed by three trustees in UK
Carol Linfield grew up in North India where her parents were missionaries. She moved back to England with them at the age of seven. As an adult Carol settled in the West Midlands and has been a member of St Philips Church, Dorridge for over forty years. She was on their Mission Beyond the Parish committee, is on the PCC, a lay reader and Chaplain at Birmingham Cathedral. Carol has two grown up children and four grandchildren and has worked as a nurse for the NHS and in nursing homes. As a mature adult Carol went to Greenbelt, a Christian Arts festival and there she signed up with USPG (United Society Partners in the Gospel) for a six month placement teaching English in Tamil Nadu, India. Whilst on placement in 2013 Carol visited Dornakal, where she met Kantha and Anil along with some of the beneficiaries of the Fund. She returned there again for a visit in 2017.
Janet Powell was married to Norman for forty five years. Norman was treasurer of the Dornakal Fund for the Needy for many years before his death in 2022. Janet grew up in Yardley Wood and lived with Norman in Bentley Heath all their married life, they have three grown up children and four grandchildren. Janet worked as a CAD operator, attended St. James Church Bentley Heath for over thirty years and was on St. Philips and St. James’ Mission beyond the Parish Committee. Janet currently runs Totstop a volunteer based toddler group at St James Church, Bentley Heath, she is a member of Dorridge Methodist church and is on their church council; she is also a volunteer at the churches together café in Bentley Heath community centre.
Gemma Mason is the daughter of Norman and Janet Powell. She grew up in Bentley Heath and was a member of St. James Church congregation for twenty years. Gemma was on the Mission beyond the Parish Committee for St. Philips and St. James Churches for 6 years which is where she first became aware of Dornakal Fund for the Needy. Gemma is now a member of Sutton Coldfield Baptist Church.
Gemma moved to Erdington when she married Andy in 2007. They have a daughter but sadly Gemma is now widowed. She has worked for the NHS as an Allied Health Professional in Birmingham Hospitals for over twenty years.
And in India the Fund is administered and dispersed by Miss Kantha and Anil Krupakar, with the support of the Church of South India Diocese of Dornakal.
Miss Kantha lives in her own house in the Cathedral Compound and is retired. She used to teach craft and needlework in the School for the Deaf within the compound. As a child Kantha had polio and is now able to get around her home with the help of crutches, and a wheelchair when she goes out. Kantha is now supported in her administration of the Fund by her nephew, Mr Anil Krupakar,
“I am G Anil Krupaker from Dornakal. I am the nephew of Miss G. Kantha. I am blessed with two sons elder is Paul and younger is Joel. My wife’s name is Priyadarshini and she is working as a school librarian in a government residential school. I am working as a Inclusive Education resource person for the children with special needs. By the grace of God I am helping in this widows project with my aunty Miss G. Kantha and I knew Mrs Ross Ammagaru. I am very much happy to help in this widows project. I have been helping this project from so many years. And I am very much grateful to God Almighty for giving me this great opportunity to work with my aunty for the poor and needy and I am very much thankful to you all for your love and great concern for me also. Pray for me and my family and pray for me for God’s guidance to me to work more efficiently in this widows project for His Glory. “
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