The Hope House

The Hope House aims to nurture and empower marginalised children to become successful and responsible citizens. Mr Ruby Nakka, the founder, grew up Read more in a children's home in the united Andhra Pradesh for 12 years and it was his childhood desire to help children the the way he was helped. Mr. Nakka was living in the United States with his family that consisted of two adopted girls. It was his girls who reminded his family about the children in need of care and protection in India and also inspired him to forgo their well-paid jobs in the healthcare industry to relocate to India to start the Hope House. He in turn inspired two of his best friends (Manoah and Thomas) to join him in this endeavour. Currently, Hope House offers institutional and non-institutional services for the children. Hope House partners with the Government of India and other like-minded entities such as the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Christian Medical College (CMC), and Railway Children.

Vision: Nurturing children to become successful and responsible citizens. Mission: Our mission is to provide care and protection to the needy children by giving access to education, enabling participation and empowering them with information about their rights and responsibilities

1. We are partnering with the country's best healthcare institution (Christian Medical College, Vellore) to implement an adolescent health education program called "Project YUVA". This program was started at the Hope House but although we had the community awareness experties, we recognized that we do not have knowledge expertiese so we joined hands with this institution where we could supplement each other's strengths to take this program forward.

2. Starting unique adoption agency: We started an exclusive adoption agency where we only take in to care for adoptable chidlren with special needs. This is the first and the only one in the entire country and we are proud to have convinced the state Government to consider this, as it fulfills the fundamental principle of adoption.

3. Partnering with welwarts program of Germany: We partner with the BMZ (Federal Ministry) of Germany that promotes volunteerism throughout the world. We have been hosting volunteers for the past 8 years and this has been an immense contribution where the volunteers help us with work but they don't receive any remuneration.