Helping Children in India

Job training and medical care for children and families
For more than 20 years WACAP has worked on behalf of Indian children. We provide funds to support poor and abandoned children in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), Bangalore and Chennai (formerly Madras). Whenever possible, we also help ensure that needy families have the resources they need to care for their children and not abandon them.

Our efforts include supporting a large community center, which provides food, education and medical care for the children of manual laborers, and vocational training for mothers and girls. The training helps women make and sell handicrafts, providing them sustainable incomes to support their families.

Our work benefits nearly 500 children and young adults like Venkatakrishnan, 18, who suffers severe effects from polio. WACAP helps pay his college tuition and provided him with a motorized cycle so he can now go back and forth to his college classes and still have time for homework in the evening.

How you can help
  • $2,000 provides heart surgery for a needy child. 
  • $700–1,100 employs a vocational training or special education instructor for hearing-impaired children for one year.
  • $500–1,000 per year sends a young adult to college.
  • $100 buys a sewing machine, enabling a woman to start a sewing business.
  • $50 a month provides food and care for an institutionalized child.
  • $22 a month helps pay educational expenses for a needy child.
You can support WACAP’s India projects in two ways:
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