This month’s service project brings an elderly couple a long lost holiday joy. Tripura’s Children Give Back Thanks to you, HLC children are learning to give back. Grateful for what they have received, the children are extending your compassionate acts of giving. Thrilled...
The Key to Turn Struggle to Success The resilience of the human spirit lives in the ability to turn struggle into success. While it might be challenging to adopt a positive perspective when life feels difficult – this one choice could be the key to achieving extraordinary goals. A...
Nagaraj has something on his mind- food for himself and his family. While he doesn’t know it, hunger may be changing the way Nagaraj’s brain develops. Children like Nagaraj are at a serious disadvantage for learning and high school graduation. Here’s why. Behavior Modification...
Another successful school year in India is coming to and end. Every year, Hope students make drastic changes in their lives after joining our Hope Learning Centers. As usual, our trainings were amazing. Our children displayed determination and focus while spending after school hours...
Gopika is an eighth grader at a local government school. She is the only daughter to farmer parents who work small plots of land every day. Even though they do not earn a lot of money, Gopika takes pride in her family. Since joining a Hope Learning Center, Gopika has also learned to take...
Tripura Foundation began with the mission of feeding the poor. Our founder, Dr. Baskaran Pillai believes that the greatest thing each of us can do is to serve a meal to someone who is hungry. He founded Tripura Foundation U.S.A. in 1989. In 1999, dedicated volunteers prepared and delivered...
On February 1, children at Hope Learning Centers in Coimbatore (Pachapalayam, center, RG Pudhur and Veeriyampalayam) prepared and served a variety of food delicacies to elderly and disabled individuals at Anugraha Ashram in honor of Dr. Baskaran Pillai’s birthday (the Founder of...
We have shared this story before but now wish to share it again because it is a good one about courage. Courage is at the center of the word “encouragement.” A courageous person does not lack fear, but moves ahead despite its existence. Within out Hope Learning Centers, educators often...
On Earth Day 2016, members of 120 nations signed the Paris Agreement as a united climate protection treaty. Even though the United States recently withdrew from this important collaboration, there is still plenty of Hope/ Heaven on Planet Earth because students at Hope Learning Centers in India...
Dinesh attends Guruvarajpet High School and has been a student at our Hope Learning Center for the past four years. Before joining the Hope Center, Dinesh often forgot what he learned and therefore did not do well on exams. He would then become frustrated and pick quarrels with other students,...
Most of us usually think of a forest as a group of trees, but it is a complex, living community. Beneath the forest canopy dwell interdependent populations of plants and animals, while the soil that forms the forest floor contains a large variety of invertebrates, bacteria and fungi which play...
Ragavi and Ragini came to our Hope Learning Center in Eari in need of stability, friendship and guidance. Now they are best friends who make beautiful flower garlands, birds and animals out of colored paper. They have brought much joy to others in their families and village by hanging their...
