Official Unveiling Chennai India 24th August 2025

We are very pleased to get these photographs of the new permanent location for the stone, from our partners in Chennai India, after its relocation to the YMCA College of Physical Education, Chennai.

Thanks to Dr. Paul Sander for supplying them, he has been our point of contact at the Karunalaya Social Service Society in Chennai, and who we worked so closely with originally.

Here is a link to a video of the ceremonial event, which features Shalini Medepalli, the British Deputy Head of Mission in Chennai, she represents the UK in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. She is a graduate of Cambridge University, and talks about walking across Parkers Piece during her time there.

Here is a link to the official press release for the day.

And here is a link to Paul reading those rules in Tamil that we recorded back in 2017 at a Streetchild United conference, where we met up with our worldwide partners.

The photographs show Shalini Medepalli with local dignitaries, a newspaper article about the stone, and Dr. Paul Sander’s wife Bayiyam with children from the Karunalaya NGO. The girls featured are all football players.