Four Hands’ non-profit partners with The Miracle Foundation
Four Hands’ non-profit partners with The Miracle Foundation
Learn to Live will found orphanage in Jodhpur, India
-- Home Accents Today, 4/29/2008 12:25:00 AM
The Learn to Live Foundation, started by Four Hands Founder & CEO Brett Hatton to improve the lives of disadvantaged children in India, has partnered with The Miracle Foundation, an Austin, Texas-based non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of orphans in India.
Learn to Live will finance an “ideal village” orphanage that provides a community-style living environment for orphaned children in Jodhpur, India. Jodhpur is located in the state of Rajasthan, which is in northwestern India. Groundbreaking will take place within the next 12 months, and more than $100,000 has been raised for the cause already.
“There are currently 25 million orphans in India and the number grows daily,” Hatton said. “Our goal is to provide the support and nurture needed for these children to better their lives. TMF was a natural choice for us to work through due to their remarkable achievements in India, and sharing the same core philosophies of helping one child at a time.”
“Our children are raised in an intimate, loving, family environment and receive individual attention from their house mothers,” said The Miracle Foundation’s Founder Caroline Boudreaux. “The Miracle Foundation’s philosophy is to follow the family principle as close as possible, attachment to parents and the home receiving utmost importance.”
Learn to Live was also able to coordinate with local furniture vendors in India to donate more than $50,000 of furniture to The Miracle Foundation’s Sooch Village in the City of Ranchi, East India. Sooch Village is a community of 20 free-standing cottages that will each house 10 orphans, who will be raised in a family environment and receive individual attention from their house mothers.
Hatton was present at the Grand Opening Celebration of Sooch Village in March. “The experience of seeing these children in their new home was awe-inspiring,” said Hatton. “We couldn’t have done this without the support of our vendors, the furniture was amazing and I hope that we have left the lives of the children a little bit better.”
“By providing these children with beds where they can sleep and dream of changing the world someday,” said Boudreaux, “what Four Hands has done is made each one of these houses a home.”
About Learn to Live
Learn to Live aims to better the lives of children in India by providing them with the self-esteem, confidence, education, skills, and mental aptitude to become tomorrow’s world leaders. Founded by Brett Hatton, Founder & CEO of Four Hands, the foundation aims to change the lives of children through support on both a personal and community level. www.learn2live.net
About Miracle Foundation
The Miracle Foundation empowers children to reach their full potential, one orphan at a time. We work collaboratively to empower families living in poverty to keep, feed, and educate their children. We partner with and support existing orphanages to upgrade them to a global model, and we build family-style orphanages to provide children with personalized attention. www.miraclefoundation.org