Education & hope for 165 needy children in India

“Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.”
- Adam Johnson, The Orphan Master's Son

In our country there is significant difference in the lifestyle of the upper, middle and lower classes. The children born to these poverty stricken homes often do not have a decent chance at life with no opportunity of education or growth. We live in a free country and yet these children cannot freely choose or even afford the basic necessities of life. This is what birthed the idea of an institution like "New Home" where these children are not just given a new chance at education as well as personal and emotional growth, but also a new chance at life. 

Here are the few updates on what happened in the last quarter.

We are so glad that all of our children performed well in their exam and all of them got promoted to the next class. Despite many of their classes were being online, we were amazed to see this extraordinary performance from our Children. Gopal and Ganesh appeared for their 10th grade board exams. Both of them did well and they are pursuing their 1st PUC in Commerce now. 

Our Anand who is a speech and hearing impared boy who is studying in Jordan high school , a special school of speech and hearing impared children, has scored 80% in his 5th grade. He has improved drastically than how he was a few years ago. Thanks to our counselors and the warden who gave the special attention as and when Anand has required.

Though there are no covid deaths now, its very important to keep our children protected with authorised covid vaccines. We have completed the covid vaccination course for the eligible Children who are below 12 years.

Stress and Anger have become a part of human life. The world we are living in has changed drastically in many ways. Mental health has been a challenge in today's world. We have conducted a workshop to help the children with stress management and to help them come out of anger issues etc., 

Apart from this we had a WaSH program and the children got health and hygiene kits. We have conducted a summer camp in the month of may to engage the children with various life skills activities. 

A team of students from Singapore has conducted an interesting education cum fun program online and engaged our children during the summer holidays. 

We are glad to welcome 17 new girl children to our New Home. 

In the story of Reaching Hand, 2020-21 was a chapter of myriad milestones as well as learnings. We believe in learning from challenges instead of allowing them to deter us from our purpose of existence - to “Build, Care, Serve”. This belief has been moving us forward in the strife for justice and fairness. Reaching Hand reveres the community as “the heart” of the society and every action put forth by the organization aims to benefit the community and its members, whether through the umbrella programme “My Community” or programmes like “Govt school adoption”, “Youth skill development and placement”, “Women empowerment”, “Foster Care Home” and “School for the underprivileged” focusing on the effective members of the community. Therefore, when 2021 presented the second spell of COVID-19, most of our focus was channeled into relief and rehabilitation support to the community. As we look back at the impact we’ve created together, the lives we’ve touched and the smiles we’ve received along the way, on behalf of Reaching Hand, I would like to sound out our gratitude to our stakeholders who have backed us to aim higher and to achieve our ambitious goals. The collective efforts of our stakeholders - our children, youth, women, corporate partners, donors, government and our volunteers are truly appreciable. Ultimately, the board of governance - without which none of this would have materialized into being. At last, I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to all our dedicated staffs who worked hard in the midst of various challenges due to the pandemic, they even risked their lives and the families and cheerfully served the community.

• Annual Report 2021-22 (PDF)