For more nearly 40 years Future Hope has been helping vulnerable children escape the poverty and danger of the streets by providing them with a safe home and loving community.
Future Hope is a charitable organisation which provides opportunity through its homes, school, sports and medical programme for some of the most vulnerable children from the streets and slums of Kolkata, India.
We put society's most vulnerable children at the centre of all we do, and after nearly 40 years we understand the problems they face, and the solutions that dramatically and permanently change their lives for the better.
Future Hope provides an excellent, all-round education to street & slum children—opening doors to opportunity, helping them discover their potential, and guiding them to independent, fulfilling lives.
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Creating Better Futures Child by Child - Annual Newsletter
Small gestures bring big systems change: this is our daily takeaway from Future Hope. How to convert a dry smile into long-term hope, how to wipe a tear and make it a dream, how to share a simple meal and build a lasting bond. This is what we define as impact, not always the measurable metrics, which we have in plenty, but as immeasurable happiness challenging distress that numbers can never capture. We carry a huge responsibility, a responsibility of trust from our children and their families.
This “job description” is both humbling and deeply inspiring. The whole team lives this inspiration. When we see a little child enter our system, we don’t see the tatters, we see a future leader, a changemaker, an entrepreneur, a role model for society. This almost always comes true. There are those who take longer to adjust in life because of deep trauma suffered in childhood, and the healing process is longer, sometimes lasting a lifetime. We cannot call them failures, because if we self-reflect, we all carry our own weaknesses and mistakes. We just have to set judgement aside and add large doses of empathy. Through that something beautiful emerges, the quiet return of confidence, potential and possibility. The trust our children and their families place in us is a gift we never take lightly and it is shared with everyone who supports us, believes in us and gives us their time, thoughts and generosity.
Sujata Sen, CEO
Our Work
We pride ourselves on our alumni who have become self-reliant, hardworking members of society, with steady employment and happy families.
"My dream is to motivate others so they don’t suffer the same ways I had to go through, to be a successful person and support my family"
- 100% of our children come from Below the Poverty Line dysfunctional families, or are orphaned.
- Every new child creates a financial commitment of 15 years.
- More than 90% of our students go on to higher education or skills training
- Our alumni are now enjoying careers in IT, design, banking, teaching, sport, engineering, hospital management and many more.
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Nearly 2/3 of Future Hope Alumni give back in their communities or to Future Hope
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We rely largely on voluntary income from donations, fundraising and gifts in Wills.
- Together we are changing lives for over 3000 children right now and thousands more over future generations