Santa PAWS is coming to town!
We are delighted to launch our unique ‘Christmas Crackers From Our Family to Yours’ campaign, promising to give something back to their supporters this coming season!
Dominican College Galway TY Students Sell Butlers Chocolate Bars for HOPE
HOPE is delighted that Dominican College Galway, Transition Year students Hannah Feeney, Luisea Flaherty and Ellen Monaghan took the lead on selling Bulters chocolate bars in their school this month for HOPE.
HOPE Vaccination Programme Begins
HOPE Hospital have received the first lot of Covishield vaccines and are starting to vaccinate below poverty line card holders as well as the street and slum population.
Bhagar Sponsorship Programme Update
In this video update our colleague Santasil interviews our Education Sponsorship Programme Co-ordinator, Gautam, about how the Bhagar programme grew from just 44 children 5 years ago, to over 300 children now receiving sponsorship.
Eye Clinics Resume
Our Blindness Eradication Programme, sponsored by Specsavers Ireland, has resumed in West Bengal after being temporarily suspended during lockdown.
Cyclone Yaas Emergency Response
On 25th May Cyclone Yaas devastated the coastal area of West Bengal, south east of Kolkata. Over a thousand villages were completely submerged.
New Satellite Health Facility Opens
As a result of the incredible response to our emergency appeal, and the acute need for beds for patients increasing by the day, we have today, 14th May, opened a Satellite Health Facility.
Food Distribution Begins
We have now extended our COVID emergency response to feeding those affected by the crisis in the street and slum communities.
Kolkata is now in partial lock-down. Daily laborers, migrant workers, and their families are running out of food. We need to reach these families and hand out food packs.
Update from the ground in Kolkata
We have been completely overwhelmed by the staggering generosity of the Irish people in the past few weeks. As a result of such a huge outpouring we now have enough funds for equipment and PPE but we are still raising funds for the ongoing running costs for the hospital, as we expect to be treating COVID patients for some time to come.
HOPE Hospital Reopens COVID Ward as Cases Surge
India recently surpassed Brazil to become the world’s second worst-hit country in the COVID-19 pandemic. A second wave of infection is currently sweeping through the country and is considerably more infectious, and deadly, than the first. It is getting worse day by day.