18 Dec HU Team Helping Girls Home in India

The 70 girls at Home of Love, an all-girls orphanage in Chennai, India, currently sleep on mats on a concrete floor. But come January, thanks to a team from Huntington University, they will finally have a soft place to lay their heads.

Last year, 15 HU students worked at Home of Love for two weeks. The home is an orphanage for girls at risk of living on the streets or being sold into the sex trade. They couldn’t get India and the needs of the girls out of their minds. While still in India, the team decided to start a fundraising campaign to build a dormitory.

“We all felt that we didn’t want to leave that place and be done with it,” said junior Nate Sullivan, a member of the 2012 team.

Almost a year later, the Huntington University team reached and exceeded its fundraising goal of $20,000.

On January 4-21, 14 HU students will go back to finish the job. They will lead a Vacation Bible School program, with drama, games, music, dance and crafts, and begin the work of building a new dormitory.