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 [...]

Welcome to the Tripura Foundation Newsletter: HoPE Post 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… With Each Sound… With Each Donation… Honor Your Mother Through Caring [...]

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 [...]

Mind-Sound Technology is our core enhanced education programs taught at Girlstown, the 2 Boystowns, and to many other children in India and other parts of the world.  We were blessed in Chennai with the visit of George Stass, an American musician who has written songs and music for  MST.  The kids love the new method [...]

This lovely lady lives near Girlstown in Chennai (Madambakkam) and does volunteer teaching of spoken English and computer basics for our girls. Her husband is a banker  and her daughter is in 12th standard which is a very critical year in a young student’s life as the important grades are needed in order to be [...]

At age 20, Sunny is a student in the second year of university studying Bio-informatics.  His career objective is to bring down the cost of drug discovery. He volunteers at the Selaiyur Boystown.  In his own words: “I am very excited about the new MST. Its a delight to teach the techniques to the boys as I get to [...]

Every year we can count on ‘Subu’ to volunteer to be “Christmas Tata” or Santa Claus at the Girlstown Christmas party.  Dressed up in the stuffed red costume and snow white beard, he appears with the sac of presents slung over his shoulder to delight the girls with his jolly joking and dancing.  Subu has [...]

I had the pleasure recently of volunteering at the Chennai Girlstown Program. The girls were INCREDIBLY JOYFUL AND FRIENDLY when I arrived, each one shaking my hand and introducing themselves to me in English. I am a Flamenco dancer so I decided it might be fun to do a Flamenco class with them. Well, the [...]

Volunteers and friends of Tripura go out regularly to feed the neighborhood street dogs, keep a look out for those in need of medical attention, and arrange ‘capture’ for those that need to go through the ABC or Animal Birth Control program.  One very special friend of TF is Brenda. Brenda is very humble about [...]

He is the “poster boy” of Boystown; becoming educated and grateful for the opportunities he now gives back as a volunteer both at the Selaiyur Boystown and the Gumundipoondi Boystown mentoring and teaching and supervising the MST program. As of 2009, Simiyon is 25 years old and finishing up his M Phil, after completing his [...]