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.

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.

Learning English is not a big deal to our girls at the Hope House

Radhika – a 12^th grader now, was referred to us by the local hospital’s Social Worker because she couldn’t bear to see the plight of her struggles.  She was working to support the family with a sickly mother when she was supposed to be going to school. 

Leadership Development Program

LDP stands for 'Leadership Development Program' which is offered in-house at the Hope House for those that completes 10th grade successfully.  It is a six months long program where a student is required to complete several modules namely Computer Skills, Typing Skills, Communication Skills and Organizational Skills.

2015 – A year of ‘Arts & Science

Each New Year, at the Hope House, we pick a theme and stick to it for the entire year.  It was to “Learn to communicate in English” in 2013 and to “learn about vocations” in 2014 and we chose 2015 to be a year to learn more about ‘Arts & Science”.

"Voice of Hope" - Newsletter of the Hope House (November, 2014)

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