May 2024 Issue
May 15th, 2024 Hello Dear Friends & Supporters, The news from India this month is the hot weather and expansion plans for the Transition Home. The Transition Home is for 18- to 21-year-old “graduates” from the Safe House who have studied diligently and are pursuing advanced education in business or have been admitted to Browning […]
Tiya
Tiya joined us at New Horizons House in June 2023 aged 16. Tiya lost both her parents in a car crash and her three elder sisters to suicide before the age of five. Her aunt sent her to live in an ashram where sadly things got even worse for her. She was severely underfed, overworked, […]
April 2024 Issue
April 17th, 2024 Dear NHH Friends & Supporters, Last week we held our annual “Evening Under the Mango Trees” at the Highlands Ranch Mansion in Denver. 2024 marks the 10 th anniversary of New Horizons House, and the fundraising event was a tremendous success with over 140 participants showing up to support the girls and […]
March 2024 Issue
March 15th, 2024 Recently, a prospective donor asked me how New Horizons’ approach was different from other organizations with a similar focus and from existing, government-run programs in India? I thought it would be beneficial to address that in this month’s newsletter. The 2022 Trafficking in Persons Report published by the U.S. Department of State […]
February 2024 Issue
February 15th, 2024 It all started last spring when I had the privilege of meeting Esther in Colorado. I felt an immediate connection and it was inspiring to hear her speak of the work that New Horizons was engaged with in India and how they were changing lives. At that moment, I knew I wanted […]
Jaya
Jaya (aged 14) arrived at New Horizons safe home in January 2023. Jaya, like so many young people these days, spent a lot of time on her phone. It was online that a man, a police officer, began chatting to her. This man then appeared outside her house, the same complex where he loved, and […]
Saira
The beginning of Saira’s story was difficult, as with most of the girls who enter New Horizons House. Sexually abused by a boy who promised her marriage, and then by her father when she returned home from school for the holidays, she finally arrived at NHH in March 2019. Initially, she wanted to run away, […]
Amata
Seduced by an older man and sexually abused as a young girl, Amata was rescued and arrived with us at New Horizons House in December 2021. After a lot of time spent working with our expert counselers, she grew less argumentative and more interested in her studies. In particular, she joined a math group at […]
Maha
In 10th grade, Maha fell victim to the emotional manipulation of an older man who lured her into a false sense of love and security with kind words and gifts before taking advantage of her and sexually abusing her. Her mother’s response to this was to physically abuse her and attempt to marry her off. […]
Haara
Haara was forced into prostitution by her own mother. Her mother, whose first husband had died of cardiac arrest due to financial strain, remarried and older man whilst also pursuing an illegal relationship with another. For two years, Haara’s mother would bring her to different men to sell her body. One day, a neighbour saw […]