Last night, February 4th, another prominent non-profit organization in Chennai, The Banyan, held its annual fund raising event and donor thank you.  A lovely well wisher and supporter of Tripura and Girlstown gifted seats for the performance to the girls and the caretakers. This year the event was a play/dance entitled Flame of the Forrest [...]

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May 2011
In This Mother’s Day Edition:

HoPE Initiatives Expanding
*”HoPE on Wheels” Updates
* ALL NEW “HoPE Learning Centers”
Help to Continue the Expansion
Global Donations – Tax Exemptions

We Build HoPE
With Each Brick… [...]

Our crew has got the rhythm down now for shopping, chopping, cooking, packing and distributing the hot nutritious meals that HoPE on Wheels delivers weekly to Chennai’s less fortunate.  There are many slums or pockets of hutments that are erected in any space available in residential, commercial or industrial sectors in the city.
We don’t forget [...]

This Saturday, March 26th,  was the Wrap Up Outing for our girls.  The 12th Standard examinations have completed and those girls will be heading back to their families in their native places for the summer holidays.  The girls in the other standards still have examinations to write over the next 2 weeks however we had [...]

Sunny has been teaching Mind Sound Technology to the boys at the Boystown in Selaiyur for about 1.5 years now.  He shared with me last week that it wasn’t until he volunteered here that he knew passion.  To spend time with the boys, to teach them such a valuable practice and too see them thrive [...]

“I had an unforgettable experience while participating in our Briyani for the Hungry initiative in Goa.  One auspicious night, we were delivering the hot meals late in the evening to the destitute along the road, as we drove through villages.  The moon bathed the heart-rending images of the destitute as they prepared for a night’s [...]

December 2010
Year End Edition:

We Built HoPE
With Each Brick…
With Each Sound…
With Each Morsel…
With Each Donation…
With Each Loving Gesture…

We had an amazing year…all thanks to YOU!

2010 was an incredible year for Tripura Foundation. Thanks to your generous contributions, we helped thousands of deserving individuals with our programs. [...]

Dr Pillai (aka:  Baba), the founder of Tripura Foundation,  has always put foremost priority on the alleviation of poverty / on feeding the poor and that is why He set up the Tripura Foundation (www.tripurafoundation.org/).
When He was in Goa, Dr Pillai came up with the revolutionary “Briyani for the Hungry” Food Project to [...]

Both the girls at Girlstown and the boys at Boystown were given new sandals and umbrellas to prepare for the upcoming rainy season.
Both items were generously sponsored by AstroVed, a company who donates financially, supports with ‘in-kind’ donations and whose employees volunteer in several different capacities to our charity projects.
The kids thought that their brand [...]

On this Independence Day, we need to reflect on the question: What is Independence?
This was a question posed by our founder Dr Baskaran Pillai.
Our girls are learning the importance of independent thinking and how to live independently of the poverty cycle.  Just as India became freedom fighters lived to help Indians to free from British [...]