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Project Hope
More than 53 years ago, India marched bravely on to its tryst with destiny.
The future lay before it, burnished with the brass polish of hope, of promise.
Half a century later, the hope has been corroded by despair, the promise annulled by mass negligence.
Or has it? Is the mood of mass cynicism, of all-pervasive despair, really justified?
Is there -- really, truly -- no hope left?
That seems to be the consensus -- but we disagree. Because to yield to despair would be to forget one basic truth of that long ago day when India grasped its destiny with both hands.
And that truth is this -- it may be true that the Gandhis and Nehrus and Patels and Ambedkars and others led the nation towards the goal of Independence. But what really made it possible was the selfless sacrifice, the commitment, the belief and faith, of hundreds of thousands of citizens as ordinary as you and me.
That was our biggest strength then -- and it remains our biggest asset today.
For every corrupt politician and apathetic bureaucrat, there are a hundred citizens working, in their quiet, unassuming fashion, to put a smile on someone's face, to improve the quality of someone's life, to take Life by the hand and lead it one step forward towards the light.
And it is those little people we focus on here, in Project Hope. On them and their little lives and little achievements. Because it is there -- in these little people with big hearts - that the real promise of this country rests.
Programming a new future
All for a cause
The dancing beacons
Children of Courage
'I feel more inspired than ever to fight'
'Mastermoshai is like God to us'
'Live life kingsize!'
It's not important how I got AIDS, but how I am living with it'
Miracle mission
Keeping the faith
'I have AIDS. Can I get admission there?'
'In the smiles of these children I have found life'
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