A Hope Center is made up of students, like Jeevetha. She is from the village Puducherrymedu, which is north of Chennai and has 120 houses. It is very dry, so agriculture is entirely dependent on rains. Jeevetha is in 9th grade. Every day, she and 50 other children from her village used to...
Sarala came to Girlstown when we started in 2005. Her single-income family of six relied solely on her father’s ‘cooly’ or day-labourer income of 1000 Rupees per month (approximately $20 US). Sarala’s chances of being freed from the cycle of poverty were slim, especially being a girl and the...