Vizianagaram

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Tribal Women Care India 

Tribal Women Care India Helping tribal girls become literate reduces infant mortality rates. New Hope Rural Community Trust UK has been involved in rural women’s rights and development for more than a decade. Tribal Women Care India: Part of the work that New Hope Rural Community Trust, UK supports is to encourage women in poverty line communities to become literate. We know this will change Infant Mortality Rate. […]

Trustees About New Hope India

Trustees About New Hope India, Elizabeth and Eileen following their visit to New Hope in July 2014. After a long and eventful journey, having had to change aircraft due to engine failure, Eileen and her granddaughter Ellen, and Elizabeth and her granddaughter Amy arrived safely at New Hope Children’s Village in Kothavalsa to receive a magnificent welcome from the children and staff, most of whom were […]

Trustees Visit India

Trustees Visit India, In July two Trustees of New Hope Rural Community Trust visited the New Hope India projects. Eileen Thorpe has been a long time Trustee and make several visits and been keenly interested in the challenged children at Namaste House in Muniguda. Her career experience as a teacher has been a great help to the children. Elizabeth Toon has been several times to our […]

News Letter Summer 2014

News Letter Summer 2014, Dear Friends, Welcome to our summer newsletter! Thank you to Julia and the London team for your amazing fundraising! Thanks to all our amazing fund raisers! Looking out onto a warm sunny day in England as I write this, its hard to believe we were deluged by rain during the winter, with flooding that caused loss of life and devastated people’s homes […]

Time for Compassion

Time for Compassion, In medieval times, leprosy was so prevalent across Western Europe that between the 12th- 14th centuries, several hundred leper hospitals or ‘lazard houses’ were built throughout England. Time for Compassion, ittle was understood about Leprosy or how it was spread, but its physical manifestations led to widespread fear and stigma. Time for Compassion: Lepers were rejected by their communities- outcast from their homes and families. […]

Volunteers Fighting Leprosy

Volunteers Fighting Leprosy, Georgie Ellis and James Bratbee, two students from Richard Taunton’s College have recently linked up with New Hope Rural Community Trust (NHRCT) as volunteers.  They plan to spend their Gap Year (2014 – 15) working with New Hope in India, teaching the community’s children.   The pair will be organizing events over the next two years to fund their air fares and expenses, continuing  the charity’s […]