On this Independence Day, we need to reflect on the question: What is Independence? This was a question posed by our founder Dr Baskaran Pillai. Our girls are learning the importance of independent thinking and how to live independently of the poverty cycle. Just as India became freedom fighters...
5 news girls were welcomed into the Girlstown family for the school year of 2010-2011. From left to right, we are happy to introduce Anjugam in 6th standard (grade), Deepa in 8th standard, Meena in 8th standard, Karthiga in 6th standard, and Nandhini 11th standard. Their new sisters helped them...
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Last Sunday, July 25th, our boys and girls were part of a bi-annual Medical Camp co-sponsored by our partners in our first HoPE Town India, the Rotary Club of Madras. The kids were given ENT check ups and treated to a fun interactive session with a local Physio Therapist on general health care....
Dr. Karthik is a local Physio Therapist who engrossed our kids at the Medical Camp held this last Sunday at Boystown. He spoke to our girls and boys as well as their family members and members of the community who were also invited to attend this free bi-annual camp put on by our partners the...
Last year, many of you donated generously and heartfully for our first Hope Town in Manila. Our GK Tripura Hope Town was just completed a few weeks ago. Thirty families are now living a new life of Hope in Hope Town Manila. Just imagine their feeling everyday when they wake up to a beautiful new...
Today I watched Disney’s Aladdin with the girls. Thank you Jaya for bringing the DVD from CA. They understood most of it- some of Robin Williams’ ad-libs got by them but for the most part it was wonderful to watch them watch the movie which at one level is the story of a...
Mind-Sound Technology is our core enhanced education programs taught at Girlstown, the 2 Boystowns, and to many other children in India and other parts of the world. We were blessed in Chennai with the visit of George Stass, an American musician who has written songs and tripura music for MST. ...
April 10th (ya a bit late with the post!) we took the girls and caretakers to ‘DizzeeWorld” and amusement park near Chennai. I watched them enjoy being terrified and then overcome their fear by hopping on the ‘scrambler’, the ferris wheel and even the small roller...
This lovely lady lives near Girlstown in Chennai (Madambakkam) and does volunteer teaching of spoken English and computer basics for our girls. Her husband is a banker and her daughter is in 12th standard which is a very critical year in a young student’s life as the important grades are...
At age 20, Sunny is a student in the second year of university studying Bio-informatics. His career objective is to bring down the cost of drug discovery. He volunteers at the Selaiyur Boystown. In his own words: “I am very excited about the new MST. Its a delight to teach...
