This is a brief note about our Trust, THE HOPE FOUNDATION. Our Trust was registered in the year 2007, at Bangalore. But owing to my preoccupation with many things, I being the Managing Trustee, was not able to concentrate on the Trust activities.

Now we have applied for registration U/s 12 AA and u/s 80 G under Income Tax Act. We hope to get it shortly.

Our main aim is to start:

1. A daycare center for special children and senior citizens.

2. An orphanage for orphan children.

3. A vocational training and rehabilitation center for youth.

4. Educational institution for school dropouts.

We have to start these from scratch, hence we are looking for funds for capital expenditure to develop infrastructure and for 6 - 9 months working capital needs.

We are confident that within 6- 9 month's time our working capital needs will be met by generating funds from our services in the form of fees and donations from the affordable people.

We propose to start an MSME unit, as a co-operative enterprise with our trainees as members in 2 - 3 years. This unit will develop products and services and offer them commercially and the surplus earned from it will be used for our charitable purposes, thereby becoming self-dependent for the day to day needs of our Trust.

With this short information, I request you to kindly see how best you could help us serve the needy.

Thank you and Good Wishes

Prof Dr. Vincent P Raj
Managing Trustee
The Hope Foundation