Happy Home | Children’s Tuition and Day Care Centre
Children’s Tuition and Day Care Centre
Happy Home is HAPPY because our children’s’ problems and sadness will be replaced by love, warmth, care, friendship and the ability to achieve their full potential and lift them from the abyss of negativity to the heights of positive achievement
These are the first pictures of the home taken after we have agreed to rent the premises for one year. It is perfect for our needs
- It has a reasonable walled garden front and back
- A large entrance hall and small office room
- Three larger rooms – one with en-suite
- A huge kitchen
- An outside loo and shower room
- Now that we have had to take in extra children making our total 50, we have had to cover the roof area in order to accommodate such a large number.
- The downstairs rooms can now be used for teaching the Sewing Ladies, Jewellery making and an indoor play area as well as watching television.
Here you can see the imposing entrance to the house with walled garden and strong front gate. The front garden is a good relaxation and play area and the back is big enough for a simple game of cricket!
This is a palace compared to their previous homes
INSIDE HAPPY HOME
These are 2 of the larger rooms, one has an en-suite and this will be used by the girls. The boys will use the outside facility and will be no hardship for them because many of them do not have a lavatory and shower in their house at all!
This is (above) typical of the sort of accommodation where many of the poorest children of the Fishing Village live. This is the home of Rajesh and his brothers. The pots and pans above are their mother’s kitchen, they have no lavatory.
The Aims of the Home
- Happy Home is a place where dreams come true
- It is a place to give families security they need for their child to achieve his/her full potential
- This care must be a partnership, teaching parents a new responsibility of ownership for their child’s future.
- Wheel of Hope has given that opportunity, but the parents must embrace their duty and strive to work even harder to enable the rest of the family to have a better life.
- Happy Home will liberate parents from the day to day burden of financial responsibility for their children
- But they still have a moral obligation to help and support the Trust in its efforts to provide the best for their child.
The Ethos of the Home
- Each child must promise to work hard and do his best at school.
- You must also love and respect each other like brothers and sisters. Each one of you must not only feel that love and security yourself but share it with your new brothers and sisters.
- You come together as one big family joined together in a desire to help not only yourselves and families to achieve a better life but each other.
- The motto of this house is ‘Not for self but for all’ and this means that each one who lives here must take on a responsibility of love and care not just for everyone else here but also for all those less fortunate than themselves within the community.
- Happy Home is intended to be a place that will enrich your life not just by material things such as knowing you have food and clothing, a good place to sleep and also many of the fun things of life such as games and TV but also and most important of all, the ethos of love.
Happy Home | Tuition and Day Care Centre
These are the first pictures of the home taken after we have agreed to rent the premises for one year. It is perfect for our present requirements
The Inauguration speech of Happy Home
Children’s Tuition and Day Care Centre
Today the inauguration of Wheel of Hope’s Happy Home Tuition Hostel marks a milestone in the history of the Trust and is literally a dream come true.
This is to be a place where we hope all your dreams will come true for it will enable those who live and learn here to know that they and their families have the security they need for their child to achieve his or her full potential.
The aim of this hostel is to prevent children from giving up school in order to earn a living for their families. Each child who lives here will know that he or she will be able to achieve his or her dreams.
But this care must be a partnership. Parents must take on a new responsibility of ownership for their child’s future. Wheel of Hope has given that opportunity, but you, the parents must embrace your duty and strive to work even harder to enable both the rest of your family and your children in the hostel to obtain a better life.
Your children living in the hostel will liberate you from the day to day burden of financial responsibility. But you still have the moral obligation to help and support the Trust in its efforts to provide the best for your child.
Also for the children who live here there is an obligation. Each one of you has to promise to work hard and do your best at school. You don’t have to be top of the class but you must work your best and help your teacher.
You must also love and respect each other like brothers and sisters. You come together as one big family joined together in a desire to help not only yourselves and families to achieve a better life but each other.
The motto of this house is ‘Not for self but for all’ and this means that each one who lives here must take on a responsibility of love and care not just for everyone else here but also for all those less fortunate than themselves within the community. Each one of you must not only feel that love and security yourself but share it with your new brothers and sisters.
Happy Home is starting with just a handful of children but we hope that as funds increase so too will the numbers and also our ability to create other homes such as this. It is intended to be a place of love and security where your life will be enriched not just by the material things in life such as the security of knowing you have food and clothing, a good place to sleep and also many of the fun things of life such as games and TV but also and most important of all, the ethos of love.
I want to extend a special thank you to Suresh Kumar, the Managing Trustee of Wheel of Hope for all his hard work in finding this home. His never ceasing work for the trust is what has enabled this home to come into existence.
I also want to thank … Our new House Mother who will be responsible for all of you who live here. You must love her and respect her, for she is the one who will care for you.
I also want to extend my thanks and gratitude to Dr. Veena for promising to man our Wheel of Hope Health Help Centre so that we can aim to give the very best medical care.
Finally I want to thank Father Deepak Sircar for coming to bless this house and each of you as a sign that this new family will live under the love and guidance of the one Holy Family that is our true inspiration.