The Hope Foundation is dedicated to promoting the protection of street and slum children in Kolkata and the most underprivileged in India. HOPE works to effect immediate and lasting change in their lives.
By extending support to children and their communities via 60 on the ground projects, HOPE provides sustainable holistic solutions to protection and development. By providing healthcare, counselling and education, HOPE ensures children in its care enter adulthood equipped with the tools and support they need to live healthy and happy lives.
To date HOPE has helped over 2.7 million people.
The Hope Foundation rescues thousands of children from the streets and slums of Kolkata, helping to improve their quality of life and give them a better future.
Funding over 60 projects HOPE reaches out to the most forgotten and vulnerable.
Thank you to everyone who attended and supported our recent event in New York, A Taste of HOPE. It was an incredible event! We really appreciated all of the help and the big welcome for HOPE in the USA. Here are a selection of photos from the evening.
DetailsAhead of the ICC 2019 Cricket World Cup, 10 teams of street girls and boys from across the world have an amazing opportunity to go to London to compete in their own Cricket World Cup event (SCCWC), from 30th April to 7th May. The Hope Foundation has been invited to bring a team of street…
DetailsPlanning on running the VHI Women’s Mini Marathon on June 2nd? If so why not consider running in aid of HOPE!
The VHI Women’s Mini Marathon, an annual 10k charity road race, occurs each June bank holiday weekend in Dublin and is the largest Women’s event of its kind in the world.
DetailsOur projects in Kolkata have benefitted immensely from the sales of thousands of Butlers HOPE bars since we started the relationship with Butlers Chocolates in 2003 and we want to thank, most sincerely, all of you who have sold the bars on our behalf over this time. We have not increased the price of the…
DetailsHOPE U CAN PAINT promises the journey of a life time as participants will visit HOPE projects in Kolkata and as a team help paint some of the children’s crèches and homes.
DetailsWe were very happy to be featured in the Telegraph in India recently following a visit by the Irish students in Kolkata to Future Campus school.
DetailsWe are delighted to announce a Yoga for HOPE Re-union Day will take place on Sunday 31st March in the Citywest Hotel, Dublin! The event will be hosted by yoga teacher and dedicated supporter of The Hope Foundation Mella Murphy, who founded the Yoga for HOPE trip in 2009
DetailsWe are delighted to announce our upcoming New York event, A Taste of HOPE, which takes place on February 27th 2019. This will be cross-cultural evening of great live entertainment and wonderful food and drink from Ireland and India. The venue is the beautiful American Irish Historical Society building on 5th Avenue.
DetailsNow in its 16th year, this event will take place on Friday 17th May and will start at 12 midday with a prosecco reception at 12pm. This will be followed by a 3 course lunch, a special celebrity guest appearance.
DetailsHike for HOPE was established in 2019 to celebrate HOPE’s 20-year anniversary and is run in partnership with Namaste Nomad. Namaste Nomad are a Donegal based company specialising in hiking/walking tours in Himalayas and locations across Europe.
Details“Christmas Spirit is more powerful than you could ever imagine. People need Christmas to remind themselves how good they can be” – Charles Dickens
During the season of hope, as Dickens called it, we have a beautiful heartwarming story to tell you which embodies Christmas Spirit like no other.
Details2018 Rose of Tralee Kirsten Mate Maher spent a week visiting our projects in Kolkata. Here Kirsten talks about her experience and appeals for your ongoing support.
DetailsThe Schools Immersion Programme is an amazing accomplishment and I’m proud that our school has had the opportunity to get involved. The HOPE Staff provide a detailed overview of the project from the off, and students are given a clear fundraising aim. The sum is substantial but achievable. Organisational and entrepreneurial skills are developed quickly, but the true winners are the Junior Students being plied with cake, quizzes and sports tournaments!
Immediately on arrival in India the students are greeted with a garland of marigolds and immersed into Kolkata. A diverse team of HOPE leaders support the students, encouraging questioning to develop a deep understanding of the complex cultural and economic society in India. The students expect to see poverty and sadness. The poverty is certainly there, on an unimaginable scale, but what is unexpected is the level of joy and happiness found in the children’s homes. The Immersion Programme has become an integral part of our TY Year, and for all the students involved it has been a most positive and rewarding experience.
I heard of HOPE through a girl who previously went and was inspired by her experience. I chose to sign up because I felt like it was time to give back to those in need. I’m 16 years of age and to think I travelled to Kolkata, India! I got to know a different culture, met the children HOPE work with, made loads of new friends and had THE BEST EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE. It is not something everyone can say they’ve done at such a young age. I’m glad and grateful I had the opportunity to be part of this AMAZING EXPERIENCE. HOPE has been life changing for me, and many others too.
Helping One Person Every day is my new motto. HOPE has changed me for the better – I’m more determined now to appreciate life, as good as I have it and to be glad of such wonderful things in this world.
