It’s nearly midnight when Kavita stretches out her bamboo mat on a Mumbai roadside to catch a few hours of sleep. Kavita is in the same colourful salwar kameez she wore throughout the day and with no bathroom to wash up in and no door to lock, preparations for bed take just seconds. All that…
Rising from the clutches of poverty Living in abject poverty, hope can take many forms. Fleeing your home with your young children in search for a better life to escape the clutches of domestic violence, takes a special kind of courage, reinforced with a strong sense of hope which Gita exemplifies. “Run away with the…
Five years ago, I was no-one,” said Kanta Devi to me, sitting up straight against the wall of her one-room mud hut in a small village in India’s south eastern state of Tamil Nadu. “Now, people know me by my own name, not just by the name of my children.” I was sitting on the…
Kanchana belongs to a low caste community, living with her widowed mother. They live in a tiny ‘lean to’ dwelling (measuring about 40 square feet) which is situated at the end of a row of houses in a desperately poor region of India. Her mother, works as a labourer in the construction industry, providing the…
Aravindan lives in a remote hamlet of Sirukappatti, the nearest town is of a distance of 12 kms in the State of Tamil Nadu south India. In his home region there is very little infrastructure, with no roads and only a dirt track leading up to his mud brick house. Aravindan belongs to one of…
Despite fighting grinding poverty Gowasalya always aspired to go to school and receive an education. However this remained a distant dream until the Foundation’s intervention. Gowsalya was born into abject poverty in a small village in the state of Tamil Nadu, south India. She lived with her two younger brothers and widowed mother Amirtham. Her…
Rosa Hammond is the proud winner of the Kamla Foundation Trophy for 2021. She has had a fantastic year and has worked tremendously hard at her music making great progress with violin, accordion and piano.
Maia and Dylan attend Marple Hall Secondary School (in Stockport U.K). Kamla Foundation was selected by the school, as their charity of choice for the academic year 2019/20. The school leadership team (consisting of the Deputy Head, Senior Teachers, Head Boy, Girl and Year Prefects) were asked to drive the fundraiser programme. Maia and Dylan…
KAMLA FOUNDATION Bhupendra Mistry – Founding Director: We are grateful to be selected as the ‘charity of choice’ for the University of York’s Men’s Cricket Club for 2020/21. By working together, we hope to strengthen and raise both, awareness of the work being done but also to extend our reach and impact to make a…
The imposed quarantine has afforded me quality time to reflect on our work in India and the role that ‘hope’ plays – for us in the west and indeed within the communities we work with in India. Whether you are working from home, furloughed, out of work, self-isolating or caring for others, these are lonely…
This highly celebrated Award gives recognition to the work of Kamla Foundation – for transforming the lives of the most vulnerable in society.In particular to honour Bhupendra, for selflessly providing hope, inspiration and a voice for thousands, who otherwise would be exploited and stigmatised.The Judges stressed that “Bhupendra provides a bench mark for delivering significant…
In October 2019, Adrian Roebuck, a long standing supporter embarked on another iconic trek, to raise funds for Kamla Foundation. Back in 2015, Adrian scaled the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and raised over £1,000 for the Foundation! For this trek, Adrian went deep into the foothills of central Himalaya and ascended to 4,463 metres to the source of…
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