Our crew has got the rhythm down now for shopping, chopping, cooking, packing and distributing the hot nutritious meals that HoPE on Wheels delivers weekly to Chennai’s less fortunate. There are many slums or pockets of hutments that are erected in any space available in residential,...
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This Saturday, March 26th, was the Wrap Up Outing for our girls. The 12th Standard examinations have completed and those girls will be heading back to their families in their native places for the summer holidays. The girls in the other standards still have examinations to write over the next 2...
Sunny has been teaching Mind Sound Technology to the boys at the Boystown in Selaiyur for about 1.5 years now. He shared with me last week that it wasn’t until he volunteered here that he knew passion. To spend time with the boys, to teach them such a valuable practice and too see them...
“I had an unforgettable experience while participating in our Briyani for the Hungry initiative in Goa. One auspicious night, we were delivering the hot meals late in the evening to the destitute along the road, as we drove through villages. The moon bathed the heart-rending images of the...
December 2010 Year End Edition: We Built HoPE With Each Brick… With Each Sound… With Each Morsel… With Each Donation… With Each Loving Gesture… We had an amazing year…all thanks to YOU! 2010 was an incredible year for Tripura Foundation. Thanks to your generous...
Dr Pillai (aka: Baba), the founder of Tripura Foundation, has always put foremost priority on the alleviation of poverty / on feeding the poor and that is why He set up the Tripura Foundation (www.tripurafoundation.org/). When He was in Goa, Dr Pillai came up with the revolutionary “Briyani for...
Both the girls at Girlstown and the boys at Boystown were given new sandals and umbrellas to prepare for the upcoming rainy season. Both items were generously sponsored by AstroVed, a company who donates financially, supports with ‘in-kind’ donations and whose employees volunteer in...
On this Independence Day, we need to reflect on the question: What is Independence? This was a question posed by our founder Dr Baskaran Pillai. Our girls are learning the importance of independent thinking and how to live independently of the poverty cycle. Just as India became freedom fighters...
5 news girls were welcomed into the Girlstown family for the school year of 2010-2011. From left to right, we are happy to introduce Anjugam in 6th standard (grade), Deepa in 8th standard, Meena in 8th standard, Karthiga in 6th standard, and Nandhini 11th standard. Their new sisters helped them...
Last Sunday, July 25th, our boys and girls were part of a bi-annual Medical Camp co-sponsored by our partners in our first HoPE Town India, the Rotary Club of Madras. The kids were given ENT check ups and treated to a fun interactive session with a local Physio Therapist on general health care....
Last year, many of you donated generously and heartfully for our first HoPE Town in Manila. Our GK Tripura HoPE Town was just completed a few weeks ago. Thirty families are now living a new life of HoPE in HoPE Town Manila. Just imagine their feeling everyday when they wake up to a beautiful new...
Today I watched Disney’s Aladdin with the girls. Thank you Jaya for bringing the DVD from CA. They understood most of it- some of Robin Williams’ ad-libs got by them but for the most part it was wonderful to watch them watch the movie which at one level is the story of a...
