The little children in our preschools are doing well!
2025: End of the Year Appeal
They’re healthy, sociable, learning, kind, responsible, articulate, and very lively.
But, the preschools asked,
“How can we better support our communities?”
What can be done to improve everyone’s life?”
2025: The Year of Innovation
The goal was well considered: to promote the common good by…
- Creating a fresh way to teach kids and adults
- Opening access to health care where there was none
- Gardening for food security and employment
- Initiating a new community center with academic support, health care, socialization — and a library!
Your generous support today expands the common good.
With your help, a stronger, healthier community
awaits our preschool graduates.
Thank you, HKI Donors!
Innovation
for the Common Good
A fresh approach to teaching,
in school and beyond
With support from HKI, BET received a grant to develop a new curriculum suited for children living in rural poverty. The results focus on the intellectual, emotional, social, and physical aspects of growth.
This highly successful project has built a strong foundation for sustainable preschool education and community empowerment. In the shift from rote learning to storytelling and play- and project-based teaching, children are becoming active learners, more confident, creative, and socially engaged. Teachers extended this learning-through-experience approach to parent education. Hygiene practices have improved at home! Teachers have grown as mentors, guiding children and parents alike.
Essential healthcare for an
underserved community
The pent-up need for healthcare brought over 300 people to the Nambu Health Center’s medical camp on opening day, Sep. 5. HKI donors and Nambu, a German non-profit, made the new health center possible. Nambu’s opening “marks a major milestone” in BET’s efforts to care for the local community.
With exam rooms, a small pharmacy, and in-house medical providers, both acute and chronic care is now available locally. All are welcome but the elderly are especially happy to have access to nearby care.
The opening day procession for the new health center.
Gardens to nourish body and soul
A forward thinking HKI donor found the exact spot where need and expertise come together. In our coastal schools, staff and villagers alike are born into farming, it’s in their DNA.
The first two garden plots were acquired during the early pandemic. Staff and communit workers threw themselves into the project, providing much needed food and employment. A new plot near Helping Hearts is now a growing “food forest” with mango, lemon, coconut, guava and moringa trees, and more to come. Hilda writes that, in addition to providing healthy food and shade, the gardeners are “a place of happiness where teachers, children, and villagers work side by side, sharing stories, laughter, and hope. The gardens are “a blessing for the community and our preschools.”
The Lighthouse,
a beacon of hope
HKI donors purchased a small, older building to create the Kalaingarai Vilakkam, The Lighthouse, a center of education, guidance, and care for Attuvampatti village. Academic support for elementary students is available daily after regular school hours. The Lighthouse is a gathering place for the elderly, children, and young adults, where care and support foster community and hope. It is successful beyond our partner, BET’s, wildest hopes.
The library is open everyday, a favorite place for students preparing for exams and eligibility tests. The Lighthouse provides relevant study materials.
Being some distance from medical services, many depend on first aid and medical guidance, available 24/7.
Thank you, HKI donors, you are making a difference in children’s lives – and in their communities!
Help Kids India Board of Directors
Co-Presidents
Tom Rudin, Bethesda MD
Catherine Kidder, West Newbury VT
Vice President
Tom Lovett, Waterford VT
Secretary
Sarah Garey, St. Johnsbury VT
Treasurer
John Narowski, East Corinth VT
Tom Rudin, Bethesda MD
Catherine Kidder, West Newbury VT
Vice President
Tom Lovett, Waterford VT
Secretary
Sarah Garey, St. Johnsbury VT
Treasurer
John Narowski, East Corinth VT
Members at Large
Dr. Paul Davis, Wichita KS
Rani Menon, Los Altos CA
Anne Sewall, Topsham VT
Laurence LeBlanc, Toronto
Sasha Masabanda, Quebec
Saadwi Balaji, Washington DC
Dr. Paul Davis, Wichita KS
Rani Menon, Los Altos CA
Anne Sewall, Topsham VT
Laurence LeBlanc, Toronto
Sasha Masabanda, Quebec
Saadwi Balaji, Washington DC
