OPEN HANDS INDIACatholic christians, hindus and muslims work together in these mainly hindu and muslim villages

Welcome to the OPEN HANDS INDIA web-site

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OPEN HANDS INDIA is the working name for Other People's Educational Needs, Health And Necessary Development Schemes Trust (Registered No. 1116011). We are a small group of people who believe in helping to make a difference. We believe in giving because we are able to give. We know that we can’t change the whole world but by targeting our giving carefully, our actions do make a difference to the lives of individuals, their families and their communities. Please join us, the value of any donation you make will be transferred in total to the projects we are supporting, as our small administration costs are being covered by the trustees.

Open Hands funds local organizations in India that are working, with women and girls in particular, to relieve poverty in rural communities. At present the funds are used to pay for doctors, nurses, health care workers and self-help group animators employed by two local organizations, or to help pay for the care and education of particularly vulnerable children at residential schools. Open Hands is currently involved with the three interlinked projects described on this site.

Open Hands is working directly with organizations based in a rural district of North Karnataka and is also looking for support for the children of Planet Hope from stone quarries near Bangalore. To learn more about these areas and the issues facing people living there, click, 'Projects' and 'In the field', on the menu.

Open Hands raises money from local events in Somerset and Devon and through direct donations. Information about events and how to donate on-line or by other means is given on this website. Clicking on pictures enlarges them.th Petherton,Fund raising through music and dance events, on-line pyment of donations possible

Keeping the account books at a women's self help savings group OHI is a UK registered charity