HopeBuilders India - Ashirvad Kanti

HopeBuilders have recently established a partnership with an organisation called ‘Ashirvad Kanti’, who work in the slums of Nagpur, India. The name means ‘thanksgiving’, and it is out of thanks to God for His amazing love and grace that Ashirvad Kanti seek to help those who are trapped in poverty. Currently, the project operates a pre-school program for children living in the slums of Nagpur, provides housing and care to a number of children from distressed backgrounds and offers technical training. Health services are also made available by the project, through a medical van with volunteer doctors who visit slum areas twice per week.

In the future, Ashrivad Kanti together with HopeBuilders have a vision to build a school on purchased land in Nagpur, with accommodation facilities for under privileged children, where they will receive an English education. For children in India, an English education is a critical element in providing opportunities for strategic jobs that can influence local communities. Part of this vision will be to fund the purchase of teaching resources, and the employment of staff at the facility.

Ashirvad Kanti have been at work in Nagpur for fifteen years and have made many inroads in breaking the cycle of poverty – providing health care, education and restoring dignity – vital keys to enable the children and families they work with to be released from poverty.  The partnership with HopeBuilders will allow Ashirvad Kanti to expand and extend the work already being done to a much larger and broader scale, particularly through the provision of the school and training facility. HopeBuilders are excited with this partnership and with what has already been achieved and what will be achieved in the future.

For more information on the work of Ashirvad Kanti and this project please contact us: info@hopebuilders.org.au