Photo: Orphan girls rescued from child labor situations are well on their way to recovery at our girls home. Yesterday our India team hosted a public seminar to explain the legal rights of minor girls and to heighten awareness of the illegal and dangerous nature of child marriage. Motivated by extreme cultural pressures, relatives of
Photo: A young girl enrolled in our program is now out of child labor, being equipped with an education that will take her far. Good news! After a 4-year wait—yes, 4 years—we finally got our electricity connection at the Children’s Hope Center in the slums of Hyderabad. All this time we’ve been running on lanterns
Photo: Students rescued from child labor enjoying the newly improved computer lab and classroom space. In one of the world’s most populous and fastest-growing cities—Hyderabad, India—there’s a slum colony situated on the edge of one of the city’s major landfills. In this colony made up of make-shift homes pieced together from discarded vinyl ad banners,
Photo: A reason to be joyful! Girls rescued from a life of child labor in the slums are being equipped for a life of hope—at our Children’s Hope Center in Hyderabad. As a lesser-known but massive city with a population of almost 8 million, the South Indian metropolis of Hyderabad faces extreme infrastructure and poverty
Photo: Girls who were once orphans trapped in child labor, now free, safe and full of hope at our India Girls Home. This summer we had announced that, due to increased enrollment at our Girls Home, we needed to expand our facilities and improve security. Slowly but surely over the course of the last few
Photo: Once trapped in lives of child labor with little hope, now rescued, safe and thriving at our India Girls Home. Problem: Almost 50% of arranged marriages in India involve girls under the age of 18. Motivated by extreme cultural pressures, relatives of our Indian orphan girls try to claim legal rights to withdraw the
Photo: These orphan girls recently rescued from child labor situations are now safe, and well on their way to recovery at our India girls home. For nearly 20 years now, our India orphan care program has been rescuing orphan girls from human trafficking and child labor situations, rehabilitating them in a safe environment provided by
