Name: Chamali Yamuna Madiwanthi

Birthday: April 28, 1988

Age:  16

Grade: 11

Chamali’s father is dead and her mother, who is very poor, could no longer care for her. Chamali came to the orphanage in 2000. She loves reading newspapers and writing poems. Her favorite subject at school is math. She is very talkative and loud.  She is the loudest in the orphanage. When she talks, everyone in the village knows what she is going to do. “Being at Yasodara is like a heaven to me.”