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| For $100 you feed all the orphan children for a week… for $300 you sponsor a girl for a year… for $1,000 you send a girl on to a year of higher education…we need your help…. choose your level of giving. (more) |
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| Homes of Hope India-US encourages the support of foundations, corporations, civic and religious groups. Our accomplishments demonstrate the dramatic growth and breadth of our work with the poor in South India. |
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| Our needs range from the structural (reforming and resourcing our 18 schools) to the very specific (digging a well). Volunteers to India are welcomed. |
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We have declared the three South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka and Andra Pradesh the HopeZone. There, in the 32 HopeCentres, administered by the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco that we support, thousands of orphan girls and poor young women are cared for and educated. Otherwise, they would face a life of grinding poverty. We support orphanages, schools, junior and technical colleges, hostels for working young women, and boarding homes for poor village children.
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What is the HopeZone?
What has happened
in the HopeZone
thus far?
What is a HopeCentre?
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The needs in developing countries like India are many. The HopeZone is our way of narrowing the focus to a specific area of India and concentrating our efforts there. The HopeZone comprises the three South Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka and Andra Pradesh, in which there are millions of girls and young women whose life of poverty will not be broken without intervention.
The 32 sites within the HopeZone, called HopeCentres, have been in existence from five to thirty years, and have an excellent reputation in their work with the poor. But, they are terribly under-resourced. We want to bring needed resources to bear so that the HopeCentres can provide the highest quality of care and education and reach still more children and young women.
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In less than four years, we have undertaken major projects, building our first orphanage in Kochi, supplying solar powered water purification, and installing biofuel and water harvesting facilities in other locations. We have provided scholarships for grade and high school students and sent dozens of girls on to higher education. We have purchased and installed a language lab, provided computers, diesel generators, a backup battery system, cows, wells, and a wide variety of other needed items. We have built playgrounds and playing fields. We have supplied medicines and vitamins and funds for medical procedures. We have shipped over 150,000 books to create eighteen libraries.
We look for the most pressing needs as identified in our 32 HopeCentres and try to meet them. Whatever is needed, we try to find it, or raise funds to purchase it. Individuals, groups and churches have taken on projects, ranging from creating a marching band to building a shelter from the sun to providing a college scholarship.
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There are 32 HopeCentres located throughout Kerala, Karnataka and Andra Pradesh. These are orphanages, schools (ranging from pre-K to junior and technical colleges), hostels for working young women, and boarding homes for children from outlying villages who would otherwise not be able to attend school. These HopeCentres are administered by the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, a Catholic order of nuns whose mission is to care for poor girls and young women. There are 200 nuns in this, the Bangalore Province. They are trained as administrators, teachers, counselors and nurses.
Each HopeCentre is not only a physical location – providing education, counseling, emergency support, empowerment training, microloan-lending and housing for thousands of poor children – but the centre of an extensive outreach into the neighborhood and surrounding villages.
Our primary focus is girls and young women, aged 4-21 – the poor, orphaned, marginalized, abused, abandoned and victims of sex trafficking – and by extension, if present, their poor families. We serve all in need, regardless of religious tradition or background. Our aim is to break the cycle of poverty, transforming the lives of these, the poorest of the poor, whose past lives have seen horrible suffering and deprivation.
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