RURAL HOPE FOUNDATION

Rural Hope Foundation’s mission is to end all forms of human poverty by addressing nutrition, health, education and training needs of people who are facing extreme hardships in rural areas.

We are providing support to rural communities and aiming to accomplish:
1. Under privileged children, pregnant women, senior citizens, and poor families have enough food.
2. Orphanages and old-age homes have enough food/groceries, clothes and health needs met
3. Student get quality education with all facilities at schools and turn into good citizens. Continue their education and not stop it due to lack of money for tuition fees.
4. Farmers and people in rural communities are performing at their best without any blindness or blurred vision due to cataracts
5. People who lost their legs in accidents will start leading normal life with support of artificial limbs.

Rural Hope Foundation working in many ways to make this happen:
- Identifying the people in need and prioritizing the projects
- Raising funds needed to support the projects
- Through strong volunteers on the ground, successfully execute the projects.

Rural Hope Foundation earned trust from it's past activities and have the following capabilities to do this:
1. Strong donor base to support the needy
2. Partnership with local organizations to identify the needy
3. Execute the projects with our dedicated volunteers

Completed the following activities:

1. Organized 23 eye camps. screened 7940 people and supported free cataract eye surgeries to 2932 rural poor people
2. Provided prosthetic legs to 9 kids and youth; 66 wooden legs, 11 artificial hands and a wheel chair
3. Supported boys orphanage (35 boys) for 4 years with 6 months groceries support, clothes and other needs.
4. Setup a playground at boys orphanage
5. Supported girls orphanage (65 girls) for 1 year with groceries, clothes
6. Supported oldage home for 1 year with groceries
7. Provided a van to oldage home to take old people to hospital
8. Provided financial support to MCBR charitable trust to help in the construction of Oldage Home
9. Completed building renovation at oldage home. This includes flooring and tiles to an area of 1200 sqft, converting a big hall into a nice place for residents to use it as a living area as well as place to sleep.
10. Provided 57,225 meals to children and families struggling with hunger in USA
11. Constructed a dining hall at school for deaf.
12. Provided 20 desktop computers and 7 printers to schools
13. Built a brand new sports facility at ZP High School. This facility consists of 200 meter 6 lane running track, two volley ball courts, two badminton, one kho kho, and one kabaddi courts.
14. Provided scholarships to 125 students
15. Paid college tuition fees for 9 students
16. Built a basket ball court at a ZP High school
17. Provided 566 school uniforms
18. Setup mini libraries to promote local language in 11 schools
19. Implemented Digital Smart Class content (from 6th to 10th grades) in three high schools
20. Coproduced Mitti-Back to the roots film to generate awareness among farmers and stop their suicides. This film depicts our farmers problems and showcases possible solutions.
21. Provided monetary support to complete construction of 18 bathrooms to needy in rural areas.
22. Supported with 10% of the funds to procure Braille system and other equipment to support Siddhu who is congenitally blind.
23. Handed ASU weaving machines to 8 weaver families. These machines help reduce time in weaving sarees and reduce the severely painful manual work.
24. Provided 6 table tennis boards to 3 high schools
25. 15 days groceries during COVID-19 lockdown to 1450 families
26. Provided 5 medical health kits. These are like doctor on wheels to provide vital Healthcare services to tribal families in interior forest habitations. These are saving lives.
27. Setup a tailoring center to help rural women

Plan to support the following next:
a) continue support to orphanages and oldage homes
b) support tribal people with medical health kits, protein powder for malnourishment and groceries
c) support tribal schools
d) cataract eye surgeries
e) prosthetic legs
f) rural infrastructure and support to farmers
g) support rural women with training in tailoring
g)