Giving Hope
Changing Lives
SUPPORT A STUDENT
FOR $2 A DAY
That’s only $60 a month that will change a student’s life forever!
Prakash for India needs your help TODAY to give young, marginalized Indian nationals vocational training, leadership development and life skills education to put them on a better path to live with hope and dignity.
WHAT DOES YOUR
MONTHLY GIFT PROVIDE?
Educational and Vocational Programs:
Provides training in skilled trades so our students can sustain themselves and live with dignity.
Leadership Development:
Equips our students to grow and duplicate themselves to become a significant developmental force for their country.
STARTING POINT Discipleship Program:
Shares the love and grace of Jesus Christ and teaches our students Christian principles so they can live with
hope.
Resources for Repairs and Maintenance:
Maintains our facilities and keeps them in proper working order.
Will You Partner With Us?
Further the vision for Prakash and commit to supporting a student today.
Sustained donations enable us to strategically expand and provide innovative tools and resources to our students, staff, and surrounding communities.
Our Mission
For nearly 45 years, Prakash for India has been equipping young Indian men and women with marketable skills to become godly business owners, spouses, parents and leaders in their communities living self-reliant lives with hope and dignity.
Our History
In 1961, Vernon and Mildred Hart traveled to Kodaikanal, South India for a short-term missions assignment. In the process, Harts fell in love with India’s people. They developed a burden for those in poverty who had no visible means of acquiring a trade ….
Journal Entries
Hearty Welcome
Well the activities at Prakash are in big swing. Guests, Lorin and Anita have arrived and welcomed. Lorin is Chairman of PAUSA (Prakash Association USA) There was singing, dances and skits. Indians REALLY know how to say a “HEARTY WELCOME.” Anita and I had to go...
Chickens Changing Lives
Our volunteer Raju was requesting me for the chicken project for the 16 years old tribal girl Vaishnavi, from near-by village. I was not very sure about his request. But in the midst of our Self-Reliant training he again called me on phone that Vaishnavi really need...
When It Rains, It Pours
For years the monsoon has not been very beneficial in India. There has been massive drought. THEN this year it has come with an over abundance of rain. Prakash has had considerable flooding in staff housing and RGI. The RGI girls have done a superb job of helping to...
I Can’t Believe It
We just received a report that the Prakash campus was hit by a terrible rain and windstorm. It just seems that they are being attacked from all side. Most of the campus maintenance personal was on leave so other staff and their children stepped up to the plate...
We Are Home . . . They Have Water
After one day in Mumbai before a VERY long trip home, we are safely back in Montana. Not every thing on our agenda was completed, but we feel Prakash is in a good place. Students will return in a few days and things will be humming on the campuses. Just when we landed...
Slowly, Slowly
This Journal is stories of we have undertaken while here in India. Many had to be put on hold due to the fact that we may need to drill a new well. God knew this would happen so we are trying not to be discouraged. Loren had a former employee come for tea so he could...