How do you make a lasting difference to the 250,000 street children of Kolkata?

By helping people to help themselves.

The slums and streets offer little protection and dangerous predators abuse these helpless children emotionally, physically, mentally, economically and sexually – as graphically portrayed in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. Hope works inside the slums and on the streets. We run projects that educate children who otherwise wouldn't have been able to keep up with school, provide healthcare to those turned away from state hospitals and offer skills training to
young people who have no other avenue to earn a living.

Our goal is to give children back their childhoods so they thrive and can graduate to adulthood with a good education, employable skills and a sense of self-worth.

In its first 10 years Hope has helped over 100,000 people. Most of the children we help are now in full time education. Some of the older ones have gone on to higher education, whilst others have found decent jobs including work to help others like them. Thousands more have had life-saving medical intervention.

Above all, Hope helps people to help themselves.

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