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Bike Ride of a Life Time

April 23, 2019/in Blog/by New Hope

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

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

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

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.

CLICK HERE TO BOOK A NEW HOPE BIKE RIDE

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

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

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

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

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?.

Bike Ride Tours India

August 21, 2018/in Blog/by New Hope

The Indian off the tourist track 12 day adventure.

WHEN January 2019

FUNDS RAISED are all for direct benefit of leprosy affected persons and disabled children, homeless women, talk with children whose backgrounds are mostly simply ‘sad’ but what they have achieved is incredible.

ARRIVE INDIA January 24th to 4th February, 2019 – 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 whole time with us is $1500 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!!!) ($120 SAVING ON Cycle). All medical facilities are available in Visakhapatnam and Sambalpur where we travel)

YOUR FIRST STAY will be in New Hope Children’s Community Village – and do 2 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 now responsible for the Gandhi Memorial Leprosy Foundation First Aid Centre in a small town called Chilakalapalli. It has a 20 bed Ward. To get there we will ride to Vizianagaram from the starting point which is in Visakhapatnam* New Hope Kottavalsa Community Centre. Take a train to Bobbili and ride Bikes through rural country side to the Centre. From there ride through villages to highway and up to a stop at small Indian town. Ride around and stay overnight at Bobbili in a clean Indian Lodge (Hotel without license) 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 2 days, meeting Tribal women who will come down from the hills on the way to market. 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. There is a side trip to visit Hiracaud Dam. In Sambalpur see a unique pattern and method of tie dye cloth unique only to this small area of India. Train in in evening return to Kothavalasa. Children Community Centre.

CLICK HERE TO BOOK A NEW HOPE BIKE RIDE

The 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 twelve of enthralling mind boggling adventure? Experience of a life time.

The Track

Accommodation

Visiting Villiages

Premala’s Shop

Premala whose shop you see is part of the New Hope story. A small girl with Polio – Corrective surgery through Namaste House (Home for Challenged Children. Educated and rehabilitated. Namaste House is still the only recognised care home for older young people with challenges.

Giving Love Bundles to aged Tribal women, aged leprosy patients in the colonies we visit on the bike ride is part of the story of care and concern for truly poverty line people.

Tribal Women

Bike Ride Tours India

New Hope Newsletter 2017

August 1, 2017/in Blog/by New Hope

Half a year has gone and I can’t believe it. It has been a tough time for me, up and down to Perth from Broome for treatment at Murdoch Hospital! Couldn’t have made it without Al of course. Not exactly a tourist run. But I’m doing OK, so I’m learning to live in the moment. Good days and bad days make it hard for me to do as much as I wish I could do for New Hope.

In it all I have not been able to get organised with a Newsletter to thank you for your support and keep you up to date.

Bundles of Love appeal, last year had a great response and many added odds and end of gifts which New Hope India appreciated. This picture is of the last distribution from the appeal. I smiled because I literally know a thousand women in the area of New Hope at Muniguda who will have received this and cataract surgery which means a change in their quality of life. Some of these women have known me for 28 years; incredible. Their children gained from real development with small items like Safe Delivery Kits.

Bundles of Love appeal

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In my book you will have read how I struggled through High School and with my mother and her whims and then harder still at Nursing, then when I saw the picture of the 6 girls who completed what we used to call High School Junior Certificate, my background and struggles seem like push over compared to the backgrounds and situation of each of these girls. I looked and smiled Small children have grown up in my own time and done so well through New Hopes determination to target girl’s education.

Education Grants

It is my worry that New Hope may start to slip through the cracks, when I am no longer here to boss everyone about! So as well as the Board in Perth, We now have an informal committee here in Broome who will do some fundraising as years roll on.

Can I also suggest to you that if you want regular bits of gossip, news and pictures from New Hope India, please become a friend on FACEBOOK : new hope india . Their Facebook page is a great way to get posts of what exactly going on over there! And also occasionally you get from Eliazar “Pearls of Wisdom”…….and sometimes the page is very Indian and I smile at the differences in culture, and often a lesson in love and caring even though they have so little. Brings me back to earth at times.

There will be a Love Bundle appeal much closer to Christmas, but let me say to you, if you want to have a fundraiser for New Hope, be it a small Morning Tea, or a game of Bridge or whatever, please do. I am worried about funds because I can no longer do anything physical and I’m not a one band, so would appreciate any help.

Kind regards
Maggie Sister

Hud Hud Cyclone Relief

October 19, 2014/in Blog/by New Hope

There was a very short last minute alert that the tracking of the Hud Hud Cyclone would actually hit the coast at Visakhapatnam. I had gone to Muniguda the previous day as normally the cyclones hit far more north in places like Berhampur and Puri where we have leprosy colony care programmes. When I heard that the path had changed and Visakhapatnam had been struck I was stunned. However we had made basic plans on the possibility that we may suffer strong winds and that possibly highways would be blocked north of us. We purchased longer shelf life vegetables and had vegetables growing. It was just as well we had done this. We always have diesel in store for the generator and tarpaulins if needed.

Hud Hud Cyclone Relief – Kitchen

There was a very short last minute alert that the tracking of the Hud Hud Cyclone would actually hit the coast at Visakhapatnam. I had gone to Muniguda the previous day as normally the cyclones hit far more north in places like Berhampur and Puri where we have leprosy colony care programmes. When I heard that the path had changed and Visakhapatnam had been struck I was stunned. However we had made basic plans on the possibility that we may suffer strong winds and that possibly highways would be blocked north of us. We purchased longer shelf life vegetables and had vegetables growing. It was just as well we had done this. We always have diesel in store for the generator and tarpaulins if needed.

To replace the loss and damage roof of Goat & Chicken House needs 40 sheets, each sheet costs $30.
The Cow shed, which is in ruins needs 42 sheets of different type and costs $15 each.
To clean up the Community Centre and means taking trees from Power lines needs total $490.

Hud Hud Cyclone Relief Generator

Hud Hud Cyclone Relief The irony that I had come to Muniguda only to find the reality was where I had just left. Trains stopped for 4 days and roads closed and there was no communication with Visakhapatnam. It is incredible that less than 100 people died in the whole area of the cyclone area.

Hud Hud Cyclone Relief Drumstick Garden

The destruction to our community centre is almost too hard to describe. We lost 6 of our biggest and oldest mango trees. Our ‘Mother Mango Tree’ under which children play, guest sit in awe at its size stands almost alone and without a leaf. The loss of the other 5 fruit bearing mango trees, the total loss of our Papaya, Drum Stick vegetable tree and our Curry leaf tree and all vegetables in the Roellis Garden is painful to see.

Hud Hud Cyclone Relief Old School

Our Cowman turned the cows out in the storm and they went and stood and then sat in the playground. The cow shed roof flew off. A tree hit the goat house and its damage is hard to explain. The whole roof got knocked off centre and then damaged. Vasu who many of you know from emails had just supervised and worked on a new chicken house project and it ‘flew away’!

Hud Hud Cyclone Relief Goat House

The damage to the school structure was minimal. There are no formal classes this week but the children are organized with ‘home work’ and studies. There is very limited lighting at night as we use the generator as minimally as possible due to the cost and shortage of diesel. Unfortunately the solar system was damaged – actually the electrical inverter and batteries, in one Home and in two others the panels have been damaged. The simple room that Babu and his wife and child have at the side of the First Aid Centre lost its roof. They had shifted to the First Aid main building prior to the storm. The couples who look after the goats and help in the garden were fortunate not to be hurt as they had a feeling to leave the cottage. Its roof crumbled and its destruction tells me the might of the 160 miles per hour cyclone that went on for 36 hours.

Hud Hud Cyclone Relief Babu`s House

After months of hard and rather stressful work getting the Bio-gas anaerobic digester to produce gas we lost all the gas as the tin sheet covering made to protect the dome from monsoon rain cracked the gas outlet pipe and blew off. The day prior to fitting new stove burners into the kitchen.

Hud Hud Cyclone Relief Children Home

Hud Hud Cyclone Relief

Phailin Cyclone Relief

December 8, 2013/in Blog/by New Hope

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

Thank You – Phailin Cyclone Relief