A journey of faith

Back in the late 1880s, Missionaries such as Miss E.E. Bagshaw, Miss E.K. Bagshaw, Miss Grace Cole, and Miss Beatrice M. Fountain found it difficult to see people who were unable to meet their daily needs including a single meal and shelter here at Hoskote. On the tougher side of mankind, it was common to abandon newborn girl-children here as the families were unable to bear the burden of the safe upbringing of these girls and then their marriage.

This sparked up Ms E E Bagshaw and team, to come together and use the land that they had bought from Mrs. Mallama for a girl’s home for protection and upbringing of rejected girl children. Within no time the home was filled with abandoned children. Eventually, there were people who came to the House of Praise team, requesting to adopt their children as the families could not afford for the children even the basic necessities for their daily life. Soon a need for a home for boys arrived. In the year 1967, a boy’s home was established in Sathanur.

The House of Praise trust has adopted numerous children and has been able to nurture them as a family, taking care of them through their young age giving them a good education, health shelter, food, and eventually marriage or until they are able to independently finance themselves.