The HOPE House provided a PowerPoint presentation summarizing its activities from 2009, thanking supporters for their contributions that year. The presentation showed children receiving education, medical care, birthday gifts, trips, and more. It also highlighted renovations at a boys' home, including a kitchen garden, library, and gym. Photos illustrated the growth and development of the HOPE House children over the past year. The organization looked forward to continued support in 2010.
2. Dear friend of the HOPE House, As the year 2009 winds down to the wire, we look back to 2009 with enormous gratitude towards our Almighty and to you. We couldn’t say thank you enough in words so we prepared a PowerPoint presentation of the HOPE House in 2009, depicting all the activities we undertook. We hope you like seeing what your support has done in this past year to the most disadvantaged children in India. As always, we would love to hear from you and if we may ask, please do forward the PowerPoint link to all your friends to spread the message of our work. We take this opportunity to wish you in advance A HAPPY NEW YEAR - 2010
19. An Indian friend in the US visiting the HOPE House with her children. She brought loads of goodies for the girls
20. Girls participated in a competition called “Democracy” where the children graded other children. Here is a group of children demonstrating about the environmental protection.
21. Older girls joined the Junior Red Cross (JRC) club voluntarily at their school.
23. HOPE House has undertaken the co-management responsibility of Government children’s home for boys in Ranipet. In this picture boys are being recognized for their athletic excellence.
24. HOPE House has worked with the boys home to develop a kitchen garden. As we were planting the seeds First, we fenced the land to protect the kitchen garden from animals
25. Kitchen garden in the making Our American volunteer enjoying the moment in the kitchen garden A child from the boys home assumed the responsibility to be a leader of the kitchen garden
26. Full fledge garden where the boys grow beans, lady’s finger (okra), brinjal (egg plant) and tomatoes. Produce is used for the boys consumption.
27. Fruits of our labor at the kitchen garden Beans grown on the plants Lady’s finger (okra) grown on the plants
28. Boys home children and the staff are being taken on a picnic to the ‘Vellore Fort’
30. HOPE House has worked with the boys home to develop a library and the resource center This is the room before it is turned into a library and the resource center
31. Library and the resource center in progress HOPE House staff and the boys cataloging the books for the library
32. Library and the resource center in progress HOPE House volunteer getting the book shelves ready for the library
33. Library and the resource center Completed library with a table and chairs for the boys to sit
34. Library and the resource center Two desktop computers with internet connection and an LCD projector with a laptop to watch educational videos
35. HOPE House worked with the boys home to develop a gymnasium This is the room before it was developed into a gymnasium
36. Gymnasium at boys home This is the room after the gymnasium was developed