SunDewSolutions celebrated Daan Utsav by donating Pujor Jama, sports & fitness equipments, toiletries and first aid materials to our children in two of our protection homes.

Daan Utsav Press Meet 2016, organised by The Hope Foundation India, in association with the Hotel Hindustan International was a grand affair in town! Students from top schools addressed the audience on how they would celebrate the joy of giving week with their "needy friends". We also saw few representatives from corporate houses, sharing their joy at celebrating Daan Utsav, back at their work place.

Hope‟s flagship event this year - „Pujor Jama‟ for every child this Durga Puja has been a major success with the help of our valuable donors.

We also felicitated our supporters for helping us achieve our goal, being our CSR partners.

An IT giant celebrated Daan Utsav by doing Sandwich Seva for our younger lads at one

of our protection homes for boys.

South City International School donated "Pujor Jama" for

our needy friends!

Dynamic rotarians from Inner City Kolkata, headed by Smarajit Mitra, President; and Suman Chakraborty, Secretary donated new “Pujor Jama”, stationery, chocolates and food packets to our aspiring

learners!

Shri Shikshayatan School

planned a huge drive with the

help of their children to help us

with good amount of grocery for

the disadvantaged kids.

The PDP Group brought grocery and beautiful Durga Puja greeting cards for all the children in the home.

To help us achieve our vision “A world where it should never hurt to be a child”, kindly contribute! Contact us at - Tel: +91

33 24742904, +91 33 24546488; Email: info@hopechild.org. All donations to Hope Kolkata Foundation are eligible for 50%

tax exemption under sec 80G.

Newsletter: October – December 2016

West Bengal celebrated Child Protection Day at Rabindra Sadan on 10th June 2016. The theme of the occasion was "stop child labour, start education." State Minister for Women and Child Development and Social Welfare - Ms. Shashi Panja expressed that every child should be ensured of his/her rights. Hope was invited for the event and our children had put up a mesmerizing show!

Mrs. Sangeeta Bajoria, a patron of Hope since years, donated Pujor Jama for 61 girls at one of our homes for younger girls.

Birla High School gifted children of one of our boys home brand new clothes for Pujas and treated them to yummy snacks.

PRAN Litchi Drink - the

luscious lychee people

arranged exciting games,

yummy breakfast, delicious

lunch and distributed 60 packs

lichi drink and potato chips!

Calcutta International School

warmly welcomed our kids for Daan

Utsav. Along with Pujor Jama the

children performed two skits and

even arranged food packets for 73

kids.

Erevmax Technologies Pvt

Ltd, DLF Rajarhat donated a

full month's grocery to one

of our protection homes

this Daan Utsav.

Mount Litera Zee School, Maheshtala and Dhulagarh celebrated DaanUtsav big time this year. They donated not just Pujor Jama but also stationery, educational materials, snacks and toys, with unquestionably

praiseworthy enthusiasm.

A global financial services company organised a sit and draw competition for our girls at one of our protection homes and awarded the winners with attractive prizes. They donated Pujor Jama for 39 girls and treated all the staff and children to delicious snacks and drinks.

Modern High School donated 478 Pujor Jama and 100 pairs of new shoes for girls this Daan Utsav.

Future Campus School helped us make our flagship event Pujor Jama a big success by donating beautiful dresses for the

less fortunate

Mr. Anand Agarwal, another patron of Hope donated new dresses for girls of various protection homes.

Tridhara Sammilani Puja Committee, the club renowned for organising Durga Puja in the city, donated Pujor Jama for 75 kids of Hope and treated 59 kids and staff to a sumptuous lunch.

Lets Meet Tours organised

Puja Parikrama for our kids

and took them to Sovabazar

Raj Bari, Chatu Babu Latu

Babu, Rani Rashmani,

Nilmani Mitra Puja Bari

followed by awesome lunch

at Lalit Great Eastern.

Children participated in

fashion show and were

gifted new dresses, too.

Mahadevi Birla World

Academy donated Pujor

Jama and educational

materials.

To help us achieve our vision “A world where it should never hurt to be a child”, kindly contribute! Contact us at - Tel:

+91 33 24742904, +91 33 24546488; Email: info@hopechild.org. All donations to Hope Kolkata Foundation are eligible for

50% tax exemption under sec 80G.

Kolkata and football has always

been closely intertwined!

Leicester City Football Club

and Swilly Rovers Archives

extended their support, along

with HOPE volunteers Araf

Mohammed and Barry Mooney

for training our kids in football.

Our kids participated in

Streets of India: Kolkata's

biggest Fashion & Food

Festival. They learnt body

scrub making and got

some quick tips on

cleanliness and hygiene.

Oxford University Press India - world's

largest university press with the widest

global presence, is helping us with

educational materials – 20,000 text

books and stationery items for all our in-

house children this year. Their brilliant

team, headed by Mr Sanjoy Majumder,

Associate Director, School Education

(East & North) came down from Delhi to

meet our kids and exchange ideas on

importance of education in today's era.

Some lively visitors from Vital for Children, UK were in Kolkata – meeting and interacting with children, from one project to another exchanging smiles, and spending some quality time with our children.

IndiGo - in addition to being on 'time' with

their flights, also intends to spend their

valuable time for a good cause.

In 2016, we saw their amiable crew

members engaging with our children, 5

months in a row, motivating kids to

complete their education and helping us

with nutritional and educational support

as well as sports goods.

Everest Industries organised an "Ann Daan" drive in their office premises for a week. Their contribution helped to run a home, for a month, which caters to 50+ children.

Kathy Wong, Chief Energy Officer at Moeloco has donated #1000shoesforIndia, to be distributed amongst our needy friends. Until now we have reached out more than 800 children, gifting them a bundle of surprise couriered for them direct from Australia.

Brian Flanagan, founder, Bekind Ireland

took Hope kids to Breathing Earth,

welcoming the mild winter mornings, indeed

adding some memorable pages to our

children's daily diary.

Araf Mohammed, Khelo

Rugby and Jungle Crows

Foundation conducted

Rugby sessions for our

children who thoroughly

enjoyed interacting with

professionals and learning

a new sport.

To help us achieve our vision “A world where it should never hurt to be a child”, kindly contribute! Contact us at - Tel: +91

33 24742904, +91 33 24546488; Email: info@hopechild.org. All donations to Hope Kolkata Foundation are eligible for 50% tax

exemption under sec 80G.

Tom Mac Bean and David,

representing EDUCO, Ireland

visited our Life Skill Unit.

They had donated us the building in 2006, which today reaches out to 200 children, helping them inculcate values and train them to take up a vocation in future.

Our Life Skill Training Unit caters to Hope Cafe, tailoring classes, beauty parlor unit and computer training unit. Community children are trained in the field of their choice and are placed upon the completion of their course.

Trainees of Hope Kolkata Foundation - Café and Training Unit performed 'Heal the World' - a play based on the theme of the futility of war. It gave us immense pleasure to see the children perform in English, who considered it to be a difficult language until few days back.

Much thanks to their spoken English teacher, Sanjana Vakharia, who instilled the confidence in them. Founder Director, Maureen Forrest graced the occasion by her presence to motivate the kids.

Sukanya Chakrabarty from Oxford University Press India trained our special educators on "Inclusive Education - a gateway to effective learning".

Her teaching techniques along with excellent communication skills inspired our teachers to understand that the role of the teacher is to take the student to their self-learning phase.

Calcutta International School

initiated a Project Kindness for

Hope kids, where children were

taught any subject of their own

interest including dance, drama,

music, sports, art & craft, infact

anything under the sun! The idea

was to provide children an

opportunity to explore their talent.

Born 2 Help - a volunteer group

from organized 5 sessions on

Health & Hygiene so far with us -

2 in our protection homes and next

3 in Panchanantala, Dhakuria,

catering to 170 slum children. They

even donated toiletries to help

children practice what they learn

and also treated them to yummy

snacks.

Oyo - India's Largest

Branded Network of Hotels,

checked in at one of boys’

homes, to celebrate Diwali, in

the true spirit of the festival!

They gifted our children with

crackers, sport items, games

and chocolates bringing

beautiful glimmer in their eyes.

Oyo Kolkata team also

donated towards nutrition and

education of children.

Concentrix Kolkata visited one of our protection homes and donated stationeries to the girls. Here's a glimpse from the time spent and memories added.

ICICI Lombard conducted an

eye check-up for 130 children

and donated 15 pairs of specs

at one of our communities in

Howrah, as a part of their CSR

initiative. We try our best to

reach out to as many children as

possible with the help of such

kind corporate.

Quick Heal Technologies conducted their CSR activity at one of our protection homes. Children engaged in drawing, outdoor games, and were taught the importance of internet security. “I extend my heartiest appreciation towards Hope Foundation Kolkata for the service they have been providing to the society. Children are benefited with proper education, healthy food, nurturing shelter and hygiene." – Employee, Quick Heal Technologies team.

To help us achieve our vision “A world where it should never hurt to be a child”, kindly contribute! Contact us at - Tel: +91

33 24742904, +91 33 24546488; Email: info@hopechild.org. All donations to Hope Kolkata Foundation are eligible for 50% tax

exemption under sec 80G.

Our girls from Girl2B home were taken for the - first day, first show of a great biographical sports drama - Dangal by Aamir Khan official FC Kolkata!! They celebrated the release of the film - which shows the struggle and journey of world champion wrestlers - Babita Phogat and Geeta Phogat. The idea was to inspire girls to fight for themselves and realise their strengths. Post movie, happy girls were given gifts for Christmas and were treated to sumptuous lunch.

Three of our trainees at Hope

Kolkata Foundation - Café

and Training Unit got placed

at a newly opened South

Indian restaurant, Paranthe

Wali Galli by Bon Appétit,

The Cafe. Big thanks to Wild

Frontiers Adventure Travel,

for sponsoring their course.

On Dec 14th, we inaugurated The Hope

Skill Unit Chetla for the local youth with support from Concentrix India and The Hope Foundation. The unit would conduct computer training, interactive English and personality development classes catering to 30 children. We plan to reach out to 60 children in the coming quarter of the year. The container cum classroom set up would definitely lure our needy friends from the local slum community, to acquaint themselves with digital literacy, financial accounting and other vocational skills.

The Beauty Training Unit under Hope‟s Skill Unit at Panditiya celebrated completion of the 2

nd batch‟s

beauty training course.

Christmas brings the joy of

gifts and special cakes along

with itself! Employees of Titan

house celebrated the festival by

buying handicraft items from

the Hope Boutique. We sold

ample of our hand-made

products, as well as savouries

from our bakery at Hope

Kolkata Foundation - Cafe and

Training Unit at their office

premises.

To help us achieve our vision “A world where it should never hurt to be a child”, kindly contribute! Contact us at - Tel: +91

33 24742904, +91 33 24546488; Email: info@hopechild.org. All donations to Hope Kolkata Foundation are eligible for 50%

tax exemption under sec 80G.

Like every year, Christmas

celebrations took place in full

swing at all our protection

homes. Kids decorated their

homes with the help of their

care-givers and exchanged

good wishes. The Hotel

Hindusthan International

made it even more special by

treating all the kids with lip -

smacking biryani and sweets.

The Hope Foundation India

appealed to various

Corporate/Schools to donate

blankets for the needy this

winter. RGICL TAB Page

donated 64 blankets and also

spent some time with the kids

knowing about their stay and

education with us.

Winters call for picnics! All the kids of Hope Kolkata Foundation were taken for a day out.

Cream Centre Kolkata in

collaboration with Mind Body

Soul and Vyoma Innovus

celebrated 31st

Dec 2016

treating our boys to

sumptuous food alondside an

amazing magic show. We heart

their gesture!

To help us achieve our vision “A world where it should never hurt to be a child”, kindly contribute! Contact us at - Tel: +91

33 24742904, +91 33 24546488; Email: info@hopechild.org. All donations to Hope Kolkata Foundation are eligible for 50% tax

exemption under sec 80G.

The Tollygunge Club and The Hope Foundation India organised Golf for Hope - Edition II, on 18th

November

2016, supported by DARA Entertainment & Media, in Association with Dream Home Makers and Golftrade.net,

Co-Sponsored by QualSquad Infotech Pvt. Ltd., Luxury Partner - Audi Kolkata, Personal Care Partner - Fiama,

Sports Partner - Decathlon Howrah, and Felicitation Partner – Right Florist. 65+ golfers played for the cause and

joined us for a gala dinner post the tournament for the prize giving ceremony and a musical concert by

Vedatronics and the talented children of the Hope Foundation. The event took place in the most prestigious club

in the city - The Tollygunge Club. Arjuna Award Winner 2016, Mr. Sourav Kothari and the champion

golfer Siddhi Kapoor to tee-off the tournament, at the club. Along with these two phenomenal players we also had

few children from Basa. The event focused on sponsoring girl child education. The charity fundraiser was graced by

Maureen Forrest, Hon. Director, The Hope Foundation, Geeta Venkadakrishnan, Director, Hope Kolkata

Foundation, Loretto Kennedy, Sporano singer from Ireland, Indrajit Bhalotia, CEO, Golftrade.net, social activist

Shreya Pandey, Moubani Sorkar, actress, daughter of P.C.Sorcar, Abhishek Basu, Rohit Wadhwa and Kunjalik

Balwani, Audi, Mr. Jonathan Burke, Managing Director, Qualsquad Infotech Pvt. Ltd.

We thank all our supporters and sponsors!

The Hope Foundation celebrated their 17th Annual Cultural & Educational Programme, 2016 at Nazrul Mancha on 9th November 2016. It was a great opportunity for 3000 underprivileged children to come together and pay their heartfelt gratitude to St. Teresa with the theme – “Rhythm : The Spirit of Humanity”. Personalities gracing the Annual Day were Maureen Forrest, the Founder Director of The Hope Foundation, The Hope Foundation Ireland Board Members, Hope Yoga 2016 team, enthusiastic Hope supporters, Hope U Can Paint Team 2016 - Students & Staff from the Cork Life Centre & Terence Mc Sweeney College, Hope Himalayan Walkers Team led by Loretto Kennedy, Daveys Group, Hope Ambassador - Rose of Tralee - Ms Maggie Mc Eldowney, Mr Brian Flaganan, Mr Oliver Mcoy, Ms Anne Marie Murray, Asst. Overseas Director, Mrs Indrani Guha Brahma, Chairperson of Child Welfare Committee, Kolkata, West Bengal, Smt Ananya Chatterjee Chakraborti, Chairperson West Bengal Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Mr Supriyo Sarkar - Asst. Director Department of Social Welfare, Mr Manoj Dey - Social Welfare Officer, Department of Social Welfare and Ms. Manabi Bandopadhyay, Ex-Principal, Krishnanagar Women‟s College. We encouraged 300 of our beneficiaries who passed Class X, XII and Graduation, this year, by awarding them a certificate and wished them all the very best for their future endeavours. The day witnessed a wonderful amalgamation of music, drums and dance. It was a day filled with fun and frolic with almost 550 children performing in 14 different dance forms. We also presented a glance on our achievement in the last 17 years. This success would not have been possible without the support of donors, visitors, students, and volunteers; and most importantly 454 staff presently working with HOPE and thousands of ex-HOPE employees who have added value to the organisation.

To help us achieve our vision “A world where it should never hurt to be a child”, kindly contribute! Contact us at - Tel: +91

33 24742904, +91 33 24546488; Email: info@hopechild.org. All donations to Hope Kolkata Foundation are eligible for 50% tax

exemption under sec 80G.

Hope Kolkata Foundation‟s children were a part of Christmas celebration by Auris Hotel Kolkata. Her Highness Meeryung Hall sang Christmas carols and played games with the kids. Koneenica Bandyopadhyay was also there to encourage our children. Auris organised a lavish lunch for all followed by a surprise hamper from their bakery.

The Hope Foundation India was invited to be a part of this massive AMRI Walkathon where the motto was to “Walk for a healthier heart and awareness". Our children enjoyed the activity and one of them even spoke to The Telegraph Metro