Our girls are excelling

Considering our girls family dynamics and the challenges that they face on a daily basis, we celebrate each one of their successes however small they may be.  Here is a story of three girls that are studying vocational education offered by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai.

Our Valentines

Hope House has a tradition where the Director of the Hope House and his wife hosts the girls that are taking 10th and 12th-grade board exams on Valentine's Day

Child's miraculous transformation....in hours

As you may know by now that the Hope House (THH) has been working in Katpadi railway station to rescue vulnerable children since August 2016.  We average about 20+ number of children each month but one particular child's story was so touching that we thought you too might like to read it.

Celebrating the ‘Child of the Month’

Our newest child of the month was a surprise to many of our own girls because the change was so gradual and so steady that they missed seeing their own becoming so positive and strong.  We present you our newest child of the month – Lakshmi.

Logo of our Vocational Educational Institute

As you may have read that we have started a vocational educational institute called “Hope Institute of Vocational Education” or HIVE, now, in an effort to build a name recognition, we are releasing our logo.

Year end fun at the Hope House

Girls get a week off for Christmas and New Year.  We try to keep various fun activities to engage the girls.  Here is an account of what they did in those holidays:

New partnerships of the Hope House

Without the help of others – like you, Hope House would have closed its operations in the first year itself but we have survived for 12 long years in testament to the faithful giving of our individual/ institutional supporters.

Hope House volunteer in Germany

As we have reported earlier about our partnership with DIZ, Frnakfurt, Germany which works with weltwarts program of Government of Germany, we have been hosting German volunteers for the past two years and now it got even more exciting.

Hope House Champions of 2016

Each year, we celebrate the success of our 12^th graders and this year we have every reason to be proud of our champions.  As soon as their results came in the month of May, they all had embarked on a journey that they never attempted before.

Vocational Educational Institute at the Hope House

At the Hope House, when we teach our children to dream big, we mean every word of it and we try to set an example for them to learn from us.

New project of the Hope House - 'Railway Children'

In the month of April, 2016 we heard through a mutual friend that a funding organization called 'Railway Children' is looking for a partner organization to work in Katpadi railway station to rescue and rehabilitate run away children.

Rate & review the work of the Hope House

For any organization, there's nothing more important than to hear from their stakeholders of their opinion of the organization.  We too want to take this seriously to know what you think of us.  Here is how you can tell us:

Story of Saving an elderly woman by our own Radhika

It was 5:30 PM on April 5th and I was attending a short phone call and in that duration I had five missed calls from the same number. It is one of our 12th graders – Radhika (we fondly call her Rads) who finished her  exams on April 1st and had gone home for a short vacation to be with her mother.  I returned the call only to find myself in a bigger mess…….that’s what I thought at least.

Story of Saving an elderly woman by our own Radhika

It was 5:30 PM on April 5th and I was attending a short phone call and in that duration I had five missed calls from the same number. It is one of our 12th graders – Radhika (we fondly call her Rads) who finished her  exams on April 1st and had gone home for a short vacation to be with her mother.  I returned the call only to find myself in a bigger mess…….that’s what I thought at least.

Valentine's Day at the Hope House (not what you're thinking)

For the past four years, we have been observing and celebrating 'Valentine's Day' at the Hope House but not in the same way the world around us does it.  We do it on the same premise (expression of love) but in a different style and for a different purpose.  

Resource to join in "I am YUVA" campaign

'Project YUVA' - Project for the Youngsters to Understand and Verbalize Adolescents, is our newest program and under this program we want to reach out to as many youngsters as we possibly can to help them to learn about the reproductive health education.

Hope House picnic

Every year, Hope House girls go on picnics twice a year (at the beginning of the academic year and at the end).  These are to help the girls to relax and to learn something new in an informal way.  Where do you think we went this year?  Can you guess?

A new program at the Hope House to learn empathy and tolerance

Brain researchers say that one of the most important human emotions is 'empathy' and also this can be nurtured.  We have been trying to promote empathy among our girls in various ways but never did we have a dedicated program for this.  Not anymore...

How we teach English to the Hope House girls.....

Almost all of our girls when they join the Hope House, their understanding and knowledge of English is next to nil.  We know that we cannot allow them to continue to grow up with the same level of understanding because English is a subject in school and of course as we know it, it is a global language and it wouldn't be easy if they have to succeed without English.  

'Child of the Month' - Tamilselvi

Each month, we celebrate our girls good deeds and transformation by giving them a positive reinforcement through an award that we call it 'Child of the Month'.  For the month of January, we felt a 12th grader truly deserves this award and her name is Tamilselvi.

Girls go out of their way to save their pet dog's eye

In 2009, girls received a puppy as a Christmas gift from one of the Board of Trustees of the Hope House.  Girls named her 'candy'.  That Christmas, girls posed for Christmas photos with Candy.  They really started to take care of Candy like one of their own but something went wrong.....I mean terribly wrong.

Little social activists of the Hope House

Couple of months ago when one of our German volunteers requested that her Social Worker friend of her be allowed to come to do an internship at the Hope House, collectively we have agreed for Ms. Greta to come and then decided for her to develop each child's profiles as her assignment.