One of my favorite things to hear about is children helping others. There’s something just so inspiring about it! So, naturally, I’m excited to share a very special new initiative that Tripura Foundation is launching, called Project SAVE. And what better way to introduce it than to show you the...
A Hope Center is made up of students, like Jeevetha. She is from the village Puducherrymedu, which is north of Chennai and has 120 houses. It is very dry, so agriculture is entirely dependent on rains. Jeevetha is in 9th grade. Every day, she and 50 other children from her village used to...
OUR OFFICIAL LAUNCH! “A Bright Future For The World’s Children” What if you could actually help a child to change his/her destiny? Our Hope Learning Centers are opening this month in India – 4 have opened already and 3 are opening at the end of month, serving a total of 245 children!...
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...
‘Brotherly Love’ was the message we had for the kids of Tripura yesterday. We visited Girlstown in Madambakkam, the Boystown in Selaiyur and then traveled to the other side of Chennai to Gumudipundi Boystown. It was an all day love and cake fest! The annual day is thought of for...
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...
Mind-Sound Technology is our core enhanced education programs taught at Girlstown, the 2 Boystowns, and to many other children in India and other parts of the world. We were blessed in Chennai with the visit of George Stass, an American musician who has written songs and tripura music for MST. ...
April 10th (ya a bit late with the post!) we took the girls and caretakers to ‘DizzeeWorld” and amusement park near Chennai. I watched them enjoy being terrified and then overcome their fear by hopping on the ‘scrambler’, the ferris wheel and even the small roller...