History

We at HopeReach  have been involved for many years in many social and humanitarian projects in several countries. We started working in India after the Tsunami of 2005, helping with reconstruction.

At this time, we became aware of the problem of female infanticide and the low status of females in general. The problem demanded action. We founded a local Indian non-profit Trust, Relief Projects India, which now works in partnership with HopeReach. HopeReach founder, Lex Joseph Tincher is the executive project director of Relief Projects India, (RPI.)

When a home which rescues unwanted baby girls, asked us to help with a generator, our hearts were touched by the plight of these unwanted, abandoned babies, and we went on a mission to drastically improve the hygiene and standard of the nursery, to lower the death rate of the babies, and give them the best possible start in life, considering their circumstances.

Next we set up the Little Darlings program for the handicapped toddlers who hadn’t been adopted. Loving care and excellent preschool activities transformed them into confident, bright youngsters. And when the government made efforts to find overseas parents for them, it was with great joy that we watched them go to new homes in Italy, France, Sweden and the United States; by then they were well-educated, speaking English, happy and as prepared as possible for their new life.

Once our work at the home was finished, we decided to branch out and work among the villages where many of the unwanted female and handicapped babies were coming from. Our goal—to bring health educational and awareness programs to improve the condition of women, children and families in these areas. We established the S•H•E program (Services· Health · Education) and in 2015, we completed the construction of a building which houses both the SHE centre and a school to provide good education to the desperately poor—Mountain View School. Please vist our Projects page to read more about these programs