{"id":964,"date":"2017-12-28T16:15:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T13:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karmagroup.com\/blog\/?p=964"},"modified":"2017-12-28T17:53:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T14:53:35","slug":"christel-house-x-karma-empowering-vulnerable-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmagroup.com\/blog\/christel-house-x-karma-empowering-vulnerable-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Christel House X Karma \u2013 Empowering Vulnerable Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

For most residents of Ramakrishna Hedge Nagar, the horizon doesn\u2019t extend much beyond their neighbourhood \u2013 one of the poorest in the Indian City of Bangalore. The limit of their vision isn\u2019t a choice \u2013 it\u2019s forced on them by poverty and hardship. This is what makes Reshma\u2019s story remarkable. Reshma is one of six siblings whose father could just about keep his family above the breadline by working odd jobs. Yet Reshma managed to land herself a place at medical college in Belgaum.<\/p>\n

Through talent, resolve and sheer hard work, Reshma passed her common entrance exam, achieving one of the highest test scores in the country. She\u2019s now well on her way to a career in medicine.<\/p>\n

Reshma\u2019s is just one of countless inspirational stories made possible by Christel House \u2013 a learning centre for disadvantaged children that was founded in Bangalore and now has operations around the world. Karma Group also started out in Bangalore \u2013 and we\u2019ve been supporting Christel House since 1991.<\/p>\n

Last week, we learned that over the years, we\u2019ve donated more than US$1 million to them. We\u2019re one of the biggest donors in India. It isn\u2019t about the number of course \u2013 it\u2019s knowing that we\u2019ve had the privilege of making a real difference in the lives of children like Reshma \u2013 and by extension their families, who are lifted out of poverty by their children\u2019s success.<\/p>\n

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92% of the kids that Christel House supports through its network of schools go on to college, work or both. When you consider that just 25% of Indians go to college, while only 2% work in the formal sector, what Christel House has achieved is extraordinary.<\/p>\n

Karma Group<\/a>\u2019s support isn\u2019t just financial \u2013 we provide school supplies and every year we treat the kids to a very special holiday in one of our Goa or Kerala resorts<\/a> \u2013 a real adventure considering few of them have been more than a few kilometres outside their native city.<\/p>\n

Just one of the many ways that Karma is working with Christel House to expand their horizons : )<\/p>\n

For more on Karma\u2019s work with Christel House this year read on here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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