Tsunami and Solempattai, Tamil Nadu

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A member of the public has asked for help in locating a Catholic

orphanage in Tamil Nadu where she sponsors a boy. She is very concerned

to know if he has been injured or killed by the tsunami. The orphanage

is supposedly in Solempattai, TN, but she sends her donations and

letters to Angelo Project, Sacred Heart Foundation, with an address in

St. Thomas Mount, Chennai. She is not sure whether the orphanage is

there or the letters are forwarded to someplace else in the state. I

have been unable to find any town or village named Solempattai in the

sources available to me. She is sure about the spelling. The American

foundation that makes the connection between orphans and individual

sponsors is still closed for the Christmas holiday. Does anyone know

anything about Solempattai, Tamil Nadu? Is it a neighborhood in

Mylapore or elsewhere in Chennai?

 

I have already checked the Indian Christian Directory with no success,

searched on every search engine, sent an email to the Archbishop of

Madras, etc.

 

I'd be most grateful for any help. Please feel free to forward as

appropriate.

 

 

Thanks,

 

Allen Thrasher

 

 

Allen W. Thrasher, Ph.D.

Senior Reference Librarian

Southern Asia Section

Asian Division

Library of Congress

Jefferson Building 150

101 Independence Ave., S.E.

Washington, DC 20540-4810

tel. 202-707-3732

fax 202-707-1724

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