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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Celebrating Success: an encouraging roundup of summer updates from our programs
As we transition into the fall season, we wanted to share an encouraging roundup of summer updates from our programs…. Uganda We’re gearing up for our biggest 3rd semester ever at our Uganda boarding high school and rural primary school with 1,038 students! We now have close to 400 orphans in full-time residential care between […]
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Together, we are breaking the cycle of trafficking and poverty: back-to-school fully funded for our India and Philippines students
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, coupled with a little support from our emergency fund, we were able to fully fund our India and Philippines back to school needs for the 2024-25 school year. This included 23 college scholarships for our graduated India orphans for the entire school year! We just received some photos […]
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Then and now: see the transformation of girls in our India program from orphans to college students
Do you miss old-school photo albums? It’s so easy to go to the bookshelf, pick one up and instantly go back in time. In our digitized age, it’s become more difficult to organize our thousands of photos and we often lose track of old photos stored on various backup drives if we haven’t printed them. […]
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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 […]