We’re here to raise awareness about, and funds for, street-connected children and vulnerable communities in Kolkata, India. Our objective is to raise funds to support them, through projects delivered directly by The Hope Kolkata Foundation. We’ve been active in the UK for over ten years and in the last five years alone sent £690,000 to India. We also currently have more than 450 children in Kolkata whose education and general healthcare needs are sponsored by UK donors.
We work closely with, and are supported by The Hope Foundation in Ireland. As the UK arm of the wider HOPE organisation, we share the common vision that “it should never hurt to be a child”. Providing the children in HOPE’s care with protection, healthcare, counselling and education helps them enter into adulthood equipped with the tools and support they need to live healthy and happy lives with better opportunities for their future.
If you are an existing Hope Foundation UK donor or sponsor, we are very grateful for you your support. If you are not and would like to help, please do contact us.
Our registered name is The Hope Foundation for Street Children. Our registered charity number is SC0338809 and we are a Scottish Guarantee Company, registered number SC335711.
The Hope Foundation rescues thousands of children from the streets and slums of Kolkata, helping to improve their quality of life and giving them a better future.
Funding over 60 projects HOPE reaches out to the most forgotten and vulnerable.
Reza Beyad, HOPE Ambassador and philanthropist, will engage in conversation with award winning TV and BBC Radio broadcaster and HOPE Ambassador, Andrea Catherwood; current Miss England and frontline NHS doctor, Kolkata born Bhasha Mukherjee; Shashi Tharoor, acclaimed author and member of the Indian Parliament, and from the frontline of HOPE’s Covid-19 response in India, Geeta Venkadakrishnan, HOPE Kolkata Director.
DetailsWe want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for joining us and creating our very own sangha to support ‘KEEP HOPE ALIVE’ via Zoom on Saturday 9th May. Our theme of ‘Connection’ reflected beautifully the sentiment of the day and linked our practice with our hearts and minds and all those in…
DetailsSince operations began around 6 weeks ago our Emergency Response Teams in Kolkata and surrounding rural areas have distributed food packs and daily provisions to over 12,000 families, which equates to approximately 60,000 individuals.
DetailsDue to all your generous donations more than 8,500 families have received supplies and managed to stay in quarantine to stop the spread of the virus. That is approximately 40,000 people who would otherwise have nothing to eat.
DetailsGeeta Venkadakrishnan, Director of HOPE Kolkata Foundation, our implementing partner in Kolkata, has sent us this heartbreaking and heartfelt observation from the frontline in Kolkata.
DetailsOur amazing team at HOPE Hospital continue their emergency response work on the ground in Kolkata. We urgently need to distribute food packs to families who now have no income due to the lockdown and we also need to provide them with basic protective supplies and equipment so that we can fight this terrible virus and slow the spread.
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