OUR WORK – INDIA

Health – Education – Communities – Individuals

India is a land of strange contrasts. To the international community it presents an image of a go-ahead country, with a successful and growing middle class; huge wealth; world-class hospitals, schools and universities; a massive and well-equipped military; its own space programme; a huge software industry; and no need of outside help.

Yet, beneath this success story, there is another India: 400 million people live below the official poverty line with 200 million exist in extreme poverty.

India now has a higher incidence of childhood malnutrition than sub-Saharan Africa – indeed, there are more malnourished children in India than the rest of the world put together. Caste and religious discrimination – although illegal – remain. Often government help intended for the poor never reaches them.

It is with these people – the marginalised, the neglected, people unreached by most of India’s developments over the last 50 years – that HHI works, bringing health and help to some of the poorest and most needy people of South India. HHI works primarily in the two most southerly states of India – Kerala and Tamil Nadu. We also support work in Orissa. Many people in the area are helped in all sorts of ways. Some of them are listed below.

over 100 children are in special needs education

individuals helped with tailor/craft training

in credit unions and self groups are supported

over 100 individuals medical needs are met

Find out more about the individuals and communities

INDIVIDUAL HELP

Supporting individuals with healthcare, training, education and employment opportunities enabling them to improve their living standards in a variety of ways.