It has been a busy time at Hope Gardens with many children taking their end of year or university exams. Our tutors are busy supporting children with revision at our after school clubs and helping year 12 students as they make plan for their careers. To find our more about our sponsored students please click here and read the latest report.
Thank you and Merry Christmas
2021 has been a year on which we look back with great thanksgiving and we thank God for the generosity of our supporters and the commitment of our partners in South India.
Here are some highlights from the past year:
Sustainability: We’ve increased the sustainability of our projects with the purchase of another paddy field, which together with the existing paddy will produce the vast majority of food needed for our projects.
Our Covid response: thanks to your support this has been amazing : approximately 18,000 individuals have been blessed with Hope Gardens food parcels, hygiene equipment and PPE since March.
Healthcare: Our Medical teams have worked alongside government officials and police in support of the national vaccination rollout.
Education: We have focused on educational continuity - school fees have been paid, online learning enabled and additional tutoring given as well as our after school programmes expanded.
Every blessing for 2022
The Hope Gardens team
Our after school clubs are open!
The education gap caused by the pandemic is being healed at our after school programmes everyday. Year 9-12 children are benefitting from vital tutoring & 1-2-1 support after school.
State government restrictions are such that schools and our after school clubs are only open for these years 9-12 as there are important exams in years 10 and 12 for the children to prepare for.
Our tutors have stepped up to fill in the gaps in the children’s education, support those who have become disengaged with learning and given specific guidance to those taking 10th and 12th standard national exams.
In KR Thoppur Shanti has also been helping children in Kindergarten as well as they start out on their important learning journey. We are so grateful for our tutors and their flexibility in meeting the needs of their students.
To add some variety to their studies in CumbumMettu (in addition to the daily cricket practice) also on offer are fun sewing lessons.
All this is possible because of your #generosity at Christmas! Thank you!
New After school programme opens
We are delighted that our first after school programme has opened in Kerala!
We are so grateful for the foresight of Robin and his team for seeing the need and starting a new programme for the local children. The children will be tutored, play games, make new friends and be fed after school each day. This village is up in the Keralan hills surrounded by tea and spice plantations.
As is the case with many of these villages the parents work late into the night on the plantations and the children are often left to fend for themselves.
Isn’t it fantastic that the children now have such a fun and safe place to be!
Huge thanks to all of our Hope for Children supporters - you are transforming lives.
