Selva Kumar was three years old when his parents discovered he had a medical condition. He suffers from partial paralysis. After learning of his condition, his parents abandoned him when he was four years old. They left him in the care of his 70-year-old grandmother. He and his grandmother had...
Hemalatha of Velur, India, is a widow and mother of two children. When Hemalatha married Sugumar, she was barely 22 years of age. Her husband was working as a daily wager in an industrial motor manufacturing company. After six months of marriage, her husband became ill. When she took him to the...
Through our Million Meals of Hope initiative, we have become a vital umbrella organization with a national commitment to feed the hungry. To strategically consolidate efforts, we partner with food banks that have local community reach. One of our partner food banks, City Harvest of New York City,...
Tripura Foundation’s Hope Learning Center students continue to impress and amaze all those around them with their heroic and brave acts of compassion, love and selflessness. Take, for example, Rakesh, a ninth standard student at our Murukkampattu Hope Learning Center. In the short video clip...
Dr. Pillai’s birthday is on February 1, and he has a very personal birthday wish, a monumental vision for a new world. This vision includes a special kind of education that can teach children to help others and give back to people in need around them, thus creating a new world where compassion...
As 2014 comes to a close, we here at Tripura Foundation want to wish you a happy, peaceful, prosperous and blessed new year! We’d also like to thank you and let you know how much we truly appreciate your support throughout the past year to help us move closer to making Heaven on Planet Earth...
I just love to hear stories from Ambassadors of HoPE who visit our HoPE Centers around the world. I hope to make my own visit when the time is right! One such recent story comes from our Jai Radha (Gina Guerrieri) and I’d like to share it here with you today: “Recently I had the honor of visiting...
One of my favorite things to hear about is children helping others. There’s something just so inspiring about it! So, naturally, I’m excited to share a very special new initiative that Tripura Foundation is launching, called Project SAVE. And what better way to introduce it than to show you the...
Dr. Pillai has spoken extensively on the subject of selfless service. In fact, he dedicates his entire life to acts of selfless services – what a shining example we can all live by! He says, “When you are selfish, you have boundaries. When you are Selfless, the boundaries are broken and you...
Happy Thanksgiving! “Let us show our thanks by remembering those whose suffering is greater than our own. When we eat, let us remember the people who do not have enough to eat.” – Dr. Pillai The sad fact is that food is a luxury a lot of us take for granted, but there are those who...
Hello everyone! I’m Chandra Sullivan, and I’ve been given the opportunity to write regular blog posts for the HoPE Post blog, alongside managing the Tripura Foundation Builds HoPE and Pillai Center Facebook pages. My aim in maintaining the HoPE Post blog is to make it lively, informative,...
Recently, a small group of Dr Pillai students were blessed to attend a Tripura Foundation charity fundraiser on the island of Rameshwaram, Dr. Pillai’s birthplace, and also the greatest karma busting vortex on the earth plane. The trip was also like a mini-Ambassadors of HopeTrip because...