Growth 1993 – 2024
We first partnered with our India native team in 1993 when we started conducting relief outreach to children in an urban slum colony. Today, our India programs serve local at-risk minority children and women through the following programs:
ORPHAN CARE AND EDUCATION
Our programs in South India serve vulnerable children such as orphans, trafficking survivors, and child labor victims through foster care, primary & secondary school education support, and college scholarships.
CHILDREN’S HOPE CENTERS
Our five Children’s Hope Centers in operation throughout the region where we serve provide after-school tutoring, fresh-cooked meals and snacks, and fun recreation time to at-risk minority children. The Centers also serve as food distribution points for our foster care families to make sure that they are supported with the nutrition needed for their foster child.
ON-CAMPUS TRADE SCHOOL
In 2023, we opened our India trade school on our main campus. The trade school offers certified skill coursework in trades such as tailoring to young women who are either recovering from human trafficking or else are at high risk of being trafficked.
FARMLAND ENTERPRISE
Our India farmland started as a water buffalo dairy farm— that’s why we have a water buffalo in our logo! However, today the farmland focuses on a seasonal lentil harvest, a vegetable garden and small-scale banana grove. The entirety of our farmland enterprise has empowered our native team with more funding from surplus crops sold at market, a stronger sense of ownership in their work, and delicious and organic ingredients for our children’s and staff’s meals. This helps to ensure that the children we serve are getting the nutrition they deserve.
COMING SOON… INDIA TECHNICAL COLLEGE
We are in the process of constructing a technical college which will generate funds for our India programs through local high school graduates paying to attend, while also providing scholarship seats for our at-risk students who need assistance in obtaining a higher education.
Read recent stories of impact from our India programs:
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On a typical day in our programs, many “overnight” successes revealed from Uganda to the Philippines
The concept of time zones is fascinating, wondering what is going on in any part of the world at a given time. When we’re waking up, is Beijing getting ready for bed? What happened in Rome while we were sleeping? For our recent gala, our team pulled up some stats to talk about what happens […]
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8th Annual “A Taste of Hope” Gala Celebrates 31 Years of Lives Changed by Your Generosity
We were so very encouraged by our 8th annual “A Taste of Hope” gala held on April 18th. What an amazing celebration of 31 years of rescued lives and of your generosity in action. God miraculously provided over $105,000— exceeding the amount raised at our 2023 gala! A huge thank you if you were involved […]
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You’re making a difference: see the fruits of your generosity in these recent 15 photos from our programs
In our fast-paced world of constant media bombardment and email inboxes on overload, it’s hard to know where to strike the balance between long-form reports and more visual digests. So today, to change things up a bit, we bring you a photo-report consisting of very recent shots from our programs! We hope you’ll enjoy seeing […]
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Celebrating the incredible impact you’ve made for women and children this year with our top ten field-submitted photos of 2023
As is our tradition, we’re closing out the year by sharing our favorite field-submitted photos we feel summarize the spirit of what we’ve achieved together with your support over the past 12 months. Let’s take a look! 10. We start our countdown to our favorite field-submitted photo of 2023 with this wonderful image depicting your […]
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2023 Impact Report highlights over 1 million meals served, more than 1,500 women and children receive rehabilitation, nutrition, education
Today we are happy to reflect on this past year and share with you what we’ve achieved together— 2023 has been a year of growth and success, while we’ve also continued to battle many challenges abroad due to political instabilities. We were especially happy to welcome so many new friends into our community of support […]