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Home of Hope helps Berkeley center for deaf children - Inside Bay Area
Home of Hope Inc. on Saturday will celebrate its 12th year as an organization that has raised more than $1 million to help children and young adults who are orphaned, abandoned or physically or mentally challenged.
For more than a year, Home of Hope, based in Hillsborough, has been helping the Center for Early Intervention of Deafness in Berkeley, a center for deaf children between 18 months and 5 years old. The organization funded the Sunshine Pre-School, where children with damaged hearing take classes with children who do not have a hearing loss.
"This is the all-day preschool that combines deaf and hard of hearing little ones with children developing at a normal rate in the same room," said center Executive Director Jill Ellis. "To watch them learning to interact with trust, and see the joy and accomplishments in each of them, is a bit of magic."
In 1997, the organization's founder Nilima Sabharwal, a pathologist, raised $7,800 at a fundraising dinner after a trip home to India. Since then, the organization has helped make the lives of thousands of children in India full of hope and success. Some are blind, deaf or mute, while others are tsunami victims, street children or suffering from AIDS. The organization helps 15 different schools and facilities in India.
Sabharwal said Home of Hope relies on volunteers, who are responsible for a program in India or Berkeley.
"We are directly in touch with our kids, and to watch them blossoming is their gift to us," Sabharwal said. "Providing a brighter future to underprivileged children and young adults is our dream, our goal. It feels so great to know that we have been successful so far, and know we will continue."
Nalini Bhat joined the organization in 2002 and is now president. Bhat is working on a project at the Mijawan Welfare Society in Uttar Pradesh, providing girls who are 12 and 13 an alternative to being married off.
This year, Sabharwal is receiving several awards, including the 2009 Making Lives Better award and the Sidney R. Garfield Award from Kaiser Permanente. She hopes to help a total of million children in the future through her organization.
Based on exchange rate in India, a $10 monthly donation can pay for 25 percent of a teacher's monthly salary. A donation of $40 a month for six months can buy two computers. To donate, go to Home of Hope.
Home of Hope Inc. on Saturday will celebrate its 12th year as an organization that has raised more than $1 million to help children and young adults who are orphaned, abandoned or physically or mentally challenged.
For more than a year, Home of Hope, based in Hillsborough, has been helping the Center for Early Intervention of Deafness in Berkeley, a center for deaf children between 18 months and 5 years old. The organization funded the Sunshine Pre-School, where children with damaged hearing take classes with children who do not have a hearing loss.
"This is the all-day preschool that combines deaf and hard of hearing little ones with children developing at a normal rate in the same room," said center Executive Director Jill Ellis. "To watch them learning to interact with trust, and see the joy and accomplishments in each of them, is a bit of magic."
In 1997, the organization's founder Nilima Sabharwal, a pathologist, raised $7,800 at a fundraising dinner after a trip home to India. Since then, the organization has helped make the lives of thousands of children in India full of hope and success. Some are blind, deaf or mute, while others are tsunami victims, street children or suffering from AIDS. The organization helps 15 different schools and facilities in India.
Sabharwal said Home of Hope relies on volunteers, who are responsible for a program in India or Berkeley.
"We are directly in touch with our kids, and to watch them blossoming is their gift to us," Sabharwal said. "Providing a brighter future to underprivileged children and young adults is our dream, our goal. It feels so great to know that we have been successful so far, and know we will continue."
Nalini Bhat joined the organization in 2002 and is now president. Bhat is working on a project at the Mijawan Welfare Society in Uttar Pradesh, providing girls who are 12 and 13 an alternative to being married off.
This year, Sabharwal is receiving several awards, including the 2009 Making Lives Better award and the Sidney R. Garfield Award from Kaiser Permanente. She hopes to help a total of million children in the future through her organization.
Based on exchange rate in India, a $10 monthly donation can pay for 25 percent of a teacher's monthly salary. A donation of $40 a month for six months can buy two computers. To donate, go to Home of Hope.