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India Bike Ride Itinerary

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Firstly the bike ride trip is EASY because we will supply you with an ultra modern geared HERO bicycle. You don’t have to bring your own which is an airline hassle and costly. Your first stay will be in New Hope Children’s Community Village and do 3 days volunteer work if you wish. Gardening, teaching english, carpentry, cooking. Go by train 58 tunnels and 84 bridges to see one of the worlds oldest known caves in the hills on the way back from Araku and see Tribal villages as you ride through the countryside. Limited to 14 people each tour..

India Bike Ride

India Bike Ride

New Hope is now responsible for the Gandhi Memorial Leprosy Foundation First Aid Centre in a small town called Chilakalapalli. And you are riding there from the starting point which is in Visakhapatnam New Hope Kothavalasa Community Centre.
Train to Bobbili and ride Bikes through rural country side to the Gandhi Memorial Centre for Leprosy patients. New Hope now has the management of this Centre that includes a 12 bed Ward. Ride through villages to highway and up to a stop at small Indian town. Travel to Muniguda and see the Community Centre with the Hospital where so many people have given to have poverty line women and aged leprosy patients receive cataract eye surgery. Meet Tribal women at the Centre and visit a rural market. Leave in afternoon for town of Bargarh nearest to Jhan Jhur Leprosy Colony. Ride to Jhan Jhur Leprosy Colony.
This will be a contrast to other centres of New Hope and shows a different village lifestyle. Train in the evening return to Kothavalasa. Children Community Centre.

Volunteer in Leprosy Colony

Volunteer in Leprosy Colony

We are limiting it to 14 persons. Its both Ride and Train. Those who just wish to enjoy the tour and not ride or not ride the full 20 kilometres a day can travel in the accompanying New Hope vehicle.

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See approximate itinerary below for your 14 day adventure. May change slightly from year to year. Itinerary will be confirmed closer to adventure dates.

Bike Ride India

Bike Ride India

Arrive in Visakhapatnam : Pick up from Airport and travel to New Hope Community Centre. Afternoon introduction with children.

  • DAY 1 : KOTHAVALASA – Orientation morning after breakfast. Discussion with Director on New Hope as an organization how it has evolved. Walk around New Hope Community Centre in groups with senior students or staff to explain how a day happens at the Centre. (Select an activity that you would like to spend time at.
  • DAY 2 : Monday – Cycle Alamanda. Specified day as it is a rural market day in this small rural town. You will see seasonal vegetables, cows, buffalo, oxen and goats
  • DAY 3 : Activity Day in Community. There are multitudes of activities – Painting a room, gardening including pruning, teaching an English class, Cooking pancakes and making a jam with senior girls – endless and the odd game of cricket/volley ball will creep in.
  • DAY 4 : Bicycle ride orientation, and in-depth discussion with Guide. Continue with Activity of choice.
  • DAY 5 : Train to Araku Valley ‘hill station’. Ride bicycles through rural area. Stay overnight.
  • DAY 6 : Travel downhill by bus through coffee plantations, incredible scenic valley views. Stop at Borra Caves – oldest in world. Return and stay at Community Centre, Kothavalasa.
  • DAY 7 : Train to Bobbili and ride Bikes through rural country side to the Gandhi Memorial Centre for Leprosy patients. New Hope now has the management of this Centre. Evening train to Muniguda.
  • DAY 8 : Muniguda Community Centre includes Eye Hospital supported by Friends of New Hope for free cataract eye ops to Leprosy patients and rural poverty line women Tribal women.
  • DAY 9 : The Community is also home to a group of Challenged Children in their Namaste House and Social Needs School. The aged in need of custodial care leprosy cured people also their home there. An integrated Community.
  • DAY 10 : You are free to spend time with everyone there and hopefully during your visit you will see people admitted for eye surgery; an interesting part of the work of New Hope. Visit a local Tribal Market and in the afternoon catch a train to Bargarh.
  • DAY 11 : Bargarh is the nearest town to Jhan Jhur Leprosy Colony. One of a number of such colonies that benefit from Love Bundle gifts, protective food wear and Care. Ride to Jhan Jhur Leprosy Colony – This will be a contrast to other centers of New Hope and shows a different village lifestyle Programmes. Night travel back to Kothavalasa Community Centre.
  • DAY 12 : Activities Day with children. Volunteer time in school or garden
  • DAY 13 : School holiday for children to play games. Present one of their cultural days. Volunteer time together doing arts and crafts.
  • DAY 14: Visit to Visakhapatnam city, sea and old Buddhist historical site, up coast to see where Dutch had settlement for export a special blue dyed cloth, or just go shopping.

Add On 3 Days

For those interested in birds at the ornithology level this bike ride and train journey to secluded places and forest area will be of great interest. For an Ornithologist it includes an addition 3 days side trip to Kondakarla Bird Sanctuary $150 AUD

Kondakarla Bird Sanctuary

Kondakarla Bird Sanctuary

Kondakarla Bird Sanctuary

Kondakarla Bird Sanctuary

India Bike Ride Itinerary

Bike Ride of a Life Time

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Invitation from New Hope India to join in a bike ride of a life time. The Indian off the tourist track 14 day adventure January 2020. The funds raised are all for direct benefit of leprosy affected, disabled children and homeless women. Talk with children whose backgrounds are mostly simply ‘sad’ but what they have achieved is incredible.

Bike Ride 2019

Bike Ride 2019

Arrive India January 6th to 21st January, 2020 – holiday time and the most pleasant weather time in this part of India. Option to stay on another week if you wish to do volunteer work.

The cost for the trip is with us is $1750.00 AUD, we have new easy to ride 3 gear bikes with carrier. A vehicle follows you with food and equipment where needed. You will travel off the usual tourist track 90% of the time and see places most never get a chance to and at a seasonal time when in rural India there are many activities. Its in northern Andhra Pradesh and into Western Odisha (Orissa). Visakhaptnam, Araku, Vizianagaram, Bobbili, Rayagada, Muniguda, Sambalpur are all marked on most maps.

SENIOR CITIZENS who would simply like to, come and not ‘ride’ can travel in the backup vehicle. (With me Eliazar, Director, I’m not a bike rider) All medical facilities are available in Visakhapatnam and Sambalpur where we travel.

BIRD WATCHERS There is a 4 day add on Chilika Lake. An Oriya speaking guide and all accommodation $530.00

Chilika Lake birds

Chilika Lake birds

Chilika Lake birds

Chilika Lake birds

Your first stay will be in New Hope Children’s Community Village – and do 3 days volunteer work if you wish – gardening, teaching English, carpentry, cooking. Go by train to a ‘hill station with incredible views of land and rural villages as its winds it way up. to Araku and see Tribal Kondh villages as you ride through the countryside.
New Hope is a donor to the Gandhi Memorial Leprosy Foundation First Aid Centre in a small town called Chilakalapalli. It has a 20 bed Ward and Love Bundles are given here to patients admitted with ulcer problem caused by leprosy; even though they are long cured. To get there we will ride to Vizianagaram from the starting point which is in Visakhapatnam* New Hope Kottavalsa Community Centre.

New Hope Leprosy Trust

New Hope Leprosy Trust

Visiting a Leprosy Clinic – a ride through quite rural off track roads. Have lunch and give patients Love Bundles whicjh you have given for in the Bike Ride cost. (If you would like more information on Love Bundles see www.newhopeaustralia.org – or write us.

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The World Health Organisation made it sound like leprosy was eradicated. They couldn’t have got it more wrong.
It’s a totall curable disease but the catch is early treatment. New Hope is still caring for the aged who live in Leprosy Colonies.

Rural India

Rural India

Travel to Muniguda and see the New Hope Community Centre with the Hospital where so many people have given to have poverty line women and aged leprosy patients being prepared for cataract eye surgery. Meet the challenged young people of Namaste House and stay in the Centre for 3 days, meeting

New Hope Farm Produce

New Hope Farm Produce

The Kond Dongria Centre at the major junction to paths to and from their villages is where we have establish their Community Health Centre. It centres on Mother and Child and aiming to reduce Infant Mortality Rates. Meet Tribal women who will come down from the hills on the way to market. Near to the Community Centre we have an established Tribal Care Centre where women have health services.

The Kond Dongria Centre

The Kond Dongria Centre

Love Bundles started by Maggie sister

Love Bundles started by Maggie sister

Part of the Bike Ride funds go to give care packages, Love Bundles started by Maggie sister to aged Tribal poverty line women.Then travel by train to Sambalpur nearest to the leprosy colony where we spend a day interacting with the community. The leprosy colony visit shows a different village lifestyle.

Off the beaten track

Off the beaten track

Meal Provision

Meal Provision

Train in evening returns to Kothavalasa. Children Community Centre. Meet the girls who are all involved in life at New Hope.he cost of your trip in India is based on a group of 12 people.Any fund raising done before the trip for New Hope would be appreciated. Are you ready for fourteen days of enthralling mind boggling adventure?
Experience of a life time?.

Phailin Cyclone Relief

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The response to our Cyclone Relief appeal was sincerely appreciated. The devastation in some colonies was hard to describe, with the funds one colony which has repaired have expressed their gratitude to every one who gave. The work of the repair is been supervised by a social worker volunteer.

Phailin Cyclone Relief

Phailin Cyclone Relief

Phailin Cyclone Relief

Phailin Cyclone Relief

Thank You - Phailin Cyclone Relief

Thank You – Phailin Cyclone Relief

Thank You - Phailin Cyclone Relief

Thank You – Phailin Cyclone Relief

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Elephants at Muniguda

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Forest officials are making frantic efforts to drive away a herd of elephants which sneaked into Muniguda forest range from Phulbani. For the last few days, the herd of 24 elephants has created a panic in the block by destroying crop and damaging houses.

According to the forest officials, the herd has divided into two groups. While one group of 11 elephants is staying in Chatikona panchyat of Bisamkatak block, the other group is staying in Muniguda

Elephants Foot Prints

Elephants Foot Prints

Elephants at New Hope Muniguda : The elephants have destroyed crops in Jamaraguda, Karadabandha, Ambodala and Bhairagada villages.

Since the elephants, who were staying in forest, have intruded into human habitations, the panicked tribal dare not go inside the forest. Meanwhile, DFO Ramani Ranjan Das has directed his staff to keep a vigil on the elephants. On Monday, the forest sleuths with the help of locals chased away one group of elephants by bursting crackers. Besides the forest guards, the tribal have been engaged to prevent the elephants from entering the villages during night. The New Hope India village is at the end of Jamaraguda village.

Elephants at Muniguda

Nurse Maggie Documentary

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Nurse Maggie is a poignant documentary that looks at the extraordinary life of Australian nurse and ‘Order of Australia Medal’ recipient, Maggie Sister and the work she undertakes with India’s most reviled and outcast people. The documentary by Heath Film works on two levels. Primarily it delves into Maggie’s chequered past, examines what motivates her, and what drives her to do this confronting work. Secondly it takes a physical journey with Nurse Maggie through the most inaccessible and marginalised areas of India. The physical and emotional journeys are inextricably entwined. As the film unfolds it becomes clear that through helping others Nurse Maggie has been able to emotionally transform her own tumultuous life and discover a true sense of self-worth.

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Please find documentary at bottom of page.

Nurse Maggie Documentary