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Hope Learning Centers From Poverty To Empowerment
Facts
More than 270 million
270
million people in India are
Poor People
considered poor
195.9 million people
195.9 are undernourished
million
Don’t have and go hungry every
food
day
45% 45% of poor people
Hope For Children
Illiterate
are illiterate
More than 270 million people in India are considered poor and 80% 1.12 million children in
of these people live in rural areas. 1.12 million India die before their
Children die
fifth birthday
India is one of the countries with the highest child mortality rates- 1.12 million
children die each year before their fifth birthday. Children who grow up in severely
impoverished rural communities have little chance of fulfilling their potential and Nearly 6 million
moving out of the cycle of poverty. They lack the basic necessities and support to 6 million children in the age
children out of
maintain their health and education. Hopeless and vulnerable, they often follow in school group of 6-13 years are
the footsteps of family members who lead lives of hard labour, begging or fall victim out of school
to an early death.
Tripura Foundation - providing hope for children in
rural India.
Dr. Baskaran Pillai, founder of Tripura Foundation and an
innovative educational technology called Phonemic
Intelligence (PI), has been creating programs to alleviate
human suffering over the last 30 years. Growing up in India, Dr.
Pillai was keenly aware of the daily torment of souls who don’t
have enough food, water, sufficient shelter, access to health
care, or don’t have the opportunity to obtain a meaningful
education.
Our Hope Learning Centers (HLC) were set up to offer a life line
to children who have no hope or prospects in the most remote,
rural locations of India. In 2011, our Hope Learning Center
initiative started with 6 Centers for children who were selected
based on unique personal tragedies and challenges in life. We
now have 101 Centers in operation, serving 4040 children across
Tamil Nadu and Goa.
“Hope Centers are the most effective way out of the poverty trap.”
Dr. Pillai, Founder, Tripura Foundation
Dr. Pillai has said that his most fulfilling experience has been in creating Tripura Foundation,
and that the children of our HLC are very close to his heart.
Hope Learning Centers (HLC)
Building long lasting personal transformation.
Hope Learning Centers help children living in abject poverty enhance their intelligence and create a better life. For each HLC
we carefully select 40 children between the ages of 10-14 from families that have been most affected economically,
psychologically and socially. These children attend the after school HLC 6 days per week, 2 hours per day- transforming
from the forgotten ones to vibrant, happy and compassionate children.
HLC teachers identify and encourage the cultivation of talents and skills within each child. This support for education and
character development paves the way for the child’s long-term success- which also benefits the child’s family and
surrounding community.
"Through our Hope Learning Center program, we have witnessed
children waking up to the brilliance of their own soul and spirit."
Mohini, Global Director, Tripura Foundation
40 Children 6 days per week Personal transformation Phonemic Intelligence (PI)
Between the ages of 10-14 2 hours per day after Lessons include a multitude of A brain-based program designed
are selected from families school, children receive experiential exercises, to enhance intelligence through
that have been most a nutritious mini-meal, vocational workshops, and the use of selected phonemic
affected economically, academic support, and yoga to unite the mind and sounds and concentration
psychologically and socially love. body. exercises that can activate key
to attend each center. parts of the brain for learning,
behavior, and compassion.
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What makes our Hope Learning Centers unique?
What makes us so unique is Dr. Pillai’s brain changing education, called Phonemic Intelligence (PI),
where we use select sounds to activate key parts of the brain. This technology can improve the
functioning of the brain to unleash a person’s natural intelligence. Dr. Pillai had been teaching PI to
adults all over the world and we simplified it for our HLC children. PI is the only solution of its kind
to bring sustainable change to these children and their communities.
"The biggest impact of poverty is the negative impact on the brains of the children.
How can they possibly be expected to have a better life without a solution?"
Mohini, Global Director, Tripura Foundation
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Phonemic Intelligence has been researched at Harvard Medical
School and Brain Science International, San Francisco, USA. The
research has successfully proven that the phonemic sounds
activate the primary learning centers of the brain.
Daily PI practice takes only 7 minutes to complete but offers
profound results. The exercises, which include practicing certain
phonemic sounds, help kids relax, concentrate, focus and learn
easier. PI is an innovative breakthrough that can help:
Cognitive abilities
Improve test scores
Behavior and emotional self-regulation
Greater confidence and happiness
Cultivate compassion
It’s not just the children who transform after PI practice; they bring
their knowledge to the village and transform the community. One of
the greatest testaments of PI’s impact on the brain’s compassion
center is when the children across all our HLC’s banded together to
serve the abandoned elderly within their communities. From their
act of compassion, our Hope for The Elderly program was born to
make sure these elders receive the food, necessities, and love
needed to live a life with dignity.
Hope Learning Center Sponsorship- multiple benefits!
Prepare to reap the benefits of giving back
Performing acts of compassion for others in need is a cornerstone of Dr. Pillai’s teachings. Dr. Pillai founded Tripura
Foundation knowing that when compassion is put into action, it’s possible to achieve Heaven on Earth. You, too, can be an
instrument of compassion that helps alleviate the world of the most intense forms of suffering. In turn, you can experience
the purest form of joy and fulfillment that can only be found through self-less giving.
As a Hope Learning Center sponsor, you will receive:
Quarterly impact reports Children pray for their sponsors by name 6
A personal quarterly report on your HLC written by days per week before enjoying their nutritious
Tripura’s dedicated staff on the ground in India. You mini-meals
can find out more about the impact your support is
Children at our Centers are deeply grateful that someone in
making, how the children are progressing through
the world cares about them. They sincerely offer prayers for
individual case studies, and photos.
their sponsor’s wellbeing at the start of each daily session.
“I don’t think I have been any happier when I started sponsoring a Hope
Center for these children. I know that my life is blessed because of those
children’s prayers and I just want to say thank you so much that I can be
part of their lives and I have the honor of being their sponsor.”
Rebecca Williams, Hope Learning Center Sponsor
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Stories Of Hope
Karnan is 13 years old and lives in Kattabettu, a small village in
Kodanad hills in the Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu, an area well
known for growing tea. The majority of the population work on
the tea estates, including children. Sending children to school is KARNAN
rare, and they often work alongside their parents and help with Nilgiris District
daily chores at home.
Karnan and his sister are the first members of their family to
attend a school, and their parents are very proud of them,
working day and night to pay for their education. His father is a
daily wager who struggles to bring food to the household of five,
and his mother collects tea leaves in the nearby estates earning Karnan has developed a deep passion for science, and
a meager amount of money to support the family. Hope Center Teachers have taken notice of this and
encouraged him to develop his skills and interest further.
Before joining the Hope Learning Center, Karnan used to When Karnan was asked why he was interested in science,
succumb to his short tempers, and his behavior used to cause he answered, “I have seen many people suffer in my village
him issues at school and home. Since joining the Hope Learning due to many physical and mental ailments. People who can’t
Center five years ago, Karnan’s personality has changed. He afford medical treatment do not receive help or support. I
takes a keen interest in all activities at the Center, taking part in want to ease people’s suffering.”
sports with his friends and he is always up for new challenges.
He started mastering Phonemic Intelligence and says that it Karnan aspires to become a Scientist and says his main
helped him to focus his energy and concentration on the motive about his passion is to use his intellect in research
positive aspects of life. and help in the betterment of the humankind.
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Stories Of Hope
Suganya Devi is currently studying in class 8 at Kuzhumani Govt.
High School, Trichy, Tamil Nadu State. Sunganya’s father died of
cancer when she was a young child. She lives with her mother
and one younger sibling in her uncle’s house. Her uncle runs a SUGANYA DEVI
small grocery shop where her mother works the whole day to Trichy
earn enough to feed the family. Being the eldest, Suganya
understands her responsibilities in the family. She helps her
mother with cleaning and working in her uncle’s grocery shop to
give her mother a break.
Suganya’s uncle enrolled her in a Hope Learning enter when she In spite of her low-income family background, she is
was in class 6. At that time, she was unable to read and write. determined to continue with her education. Suganya
Seeing her commitment and dedication, the Hope Learning reveals that she plans to become a school teacher and to
Center teachers gave her extra support and coaching during and teach small children in her village schools as illiteracy is
after the Hope Center sessions. With her regular attendance at predominant.
the Hope Center and additional support from the teachers,
Suganya can now read, write and is progressing well at school.
She says chickpeas given in the Hope Center are delicious and
they help her remain active and alert in class. Besides her
studies she loves reciting poems, dancing and motivating other
girls in her village to study.
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You Can Help!
You can sponsor one or more Hope Learning Centers or one or more children. You can sponsor on
behalf of a loved one as this is a gift that gives in return.
240,000 INR/yr or 20,000 INR/mo sponsors an entire Center (40 children) for one year
You can sponsor meals for the children for an entire Center or sponsor one or more children.
500 INR/mo supports one child's attendance at a Center for one month
There are many other ways you can help by joining a Sponsorship Team, creating your own fundraiser on Facebook.
Find out how you can join a sponsorship team here. https://www.tripurafoundation.org/join-a-team/
Start a Facebook fundraiser and select Tripura as your beneficiary
10Contact Us
We’re here to help so please do reach out to us
if you have any questions. Please write to us at
contact@tripurafoundation.org
Tripura Foundation - India
Address:
Flat No. G-1, ‘Ananthapuri’
No. 14, 1st Main Road
T.V.S. Nagar, Korattur, Chennai
Tamil Nadu, India 600076
Phone: +91 - 97909 98120
www.tripurafoundation.org
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