- With a little help from Our Friends...
- Things are looking up at the Bethany Children’s Home! We recently arranged for all of the children to have free dental checkups and work, and our next project is to help them all get eye checkups and glasses, if needed.
- Excursions for Underprivileged Children
- Kids’ Days Out
The Family India organizes regular excursions for children from disadvantaged backgrounds to places of educational and historical interest.
- School for Slum Children
- The Family India runs a preparatory school for slum children between three to six years of age in Southern India. Besides receiving a good preschool education, these children also receive nutritious midday meals.
- Training Programmes for Prison Staff
- According to internet statistics, prison staff and administration have the third most stressful jobs in the world. In order to provide them with the psychological and emotional tools needed to keep stress at bay in their lives, we conduct regular seminars on stress management for prison staff.
- Organic Desalination
- We have facilitated the desalinating of 60 acres of agricultural land in Kandakaddu in Cuddalore District. This land was rendered useless by the flooding of tsunami salt water. The desalination process was a completely organic process.
- School Renovation and Village Rebuilding
- The Family India, with the help of several donor agencies was able to provide 59 new houses to the residents of a tsunami-affected village in Tamil Nadu called Ponanthittu. Each of these houses has a living room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and staircase leading up to the terrace.
- Providing Tools to Boat Workers
- Not only did the tsunami ravage the lives of the fishermen, it also hit the lives of those who earn a living by providing services to the fishing industry. The Family India has been helping these allied workers by making it possible for them to be self-reliant once again.
- The “Tools for Schools” Sponsorship Programme
- We have co-produced and put together a library of unique character-building materials for school children called Tools for Schools.
- Initiatives for Junior School Children
- Our young people conduct unique, interactive, and high-impact music and theatre programmes highlighting values that we would all like to see in children.
- Character Education for Teenagers
- Tomorrow’s world will be as morally sound as the children of today make it in the future. We therefore endeavour to provide them with the input that they need to help them become good human beings.
We have seen that students will learn best the subjects that they enjoy the most.
- “Deaf Way” Project Update
- Helen Keller Awards: In an effort to encourage children from all the schools for the deaf in Delhi to do better academically, we instituted the Helen Keller Student Award. This annual award is the first of its kind and a significant morale booster to the deserving.
- "A Wave of Happiness"
- The Family India organized Khushiyon ki Bahaar (A Wave of Happiness), a special Children’s Day fair for 2,800 underprivileged children from the National Capital Region. The kids had a wonderful time! They ate a delicious lunch, danced, sang, played games, won prizes, and had snacks and cold drinks.
- Tsunami Relief Project Reaches a Milestone
- A fishing village about 20 km (13 mi) south of where we live was severely damaged by the Asian tsunami of December 2004, and 53 families lost their homes.
