CherryFive have selected a new charity to support in 2008, the Siloam Youth and Children's Aid Mission. Based in India, the charity's main aim is to provide Free Education to underprivileged children where their parents cannot afford to send them to school.

There is a high demand for such a qualitative school to serve the deserving children in and around this area. The Sycam group provide well educated, trained teachers and staff, and with their successes among the children, they are now seeking to expand the primary school to High School Level and include some Vocational Centres to give these children a good and confident future. For this, however, the school needs to buy more space and build more buildings to house the classes, but they will receive no government funding to do so.

It is not just children from poor homes that benefit from the school, but also orphans and neglected children housed in the Sycam Children's Home. Many of the children in the home come from Tsunami affected areas, and here Sycam can offer them shelter, and take care of their physical, medical, emotional and educational needs.

Sycam Ministries also runs a Children Care Centre, where about 100 children are given free tutoring for all the subjects they study, as well as a meal every evening from 5 to 7pm, 6 days a week. They will also receive any physical or medical care that they cannot get elsewhere. Again, Sycam offer all these services for free, and with so many children, with so many needs, they desperately need physical and financial support from anyone who can offer it.

Sycam do not restrict their aid to children, and serve local nomadic tribes, the blind community, those with leprosy and anyone else they can help in their community. They try to raise awareness through medical camps to help prevent easily curable diseases, and offer aid to those who are already sick.

CherryFive will help Sycam by sponsoring 10 children every month until their education is complete. If you would like more information on the charity or are interested in helping in any small way, please visit the charity's website at www. sycamministries.com