New Horizons Student Interchange

Project No: I09

Project Managers:
Art and Becky Lindfield

Contact Info:
horizonew@yahoo.com

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New Horizons Student Interchange

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Project Managers: Art and Becky Lindfield,

A host of teenagers and young adults from the United States have joined New Horizons’ Student Interchange since it was founded. After completing their training, most of these young people commit to humanitarian aid projects in India, China, Vietnam, Brazil, Russia, Mexico and Europe.

In 1998, New Horizons opened a base in Pune, India. Its students work on social programs that emphasize education and improved lifestyles for the poor.

New Horizons instigated the Ton-a-Month-Club. Basic foodstuffs, like rice and lentils, are collected and distributed free-of-charge to various villages and orphanages. Additionally, the Lindfields have been involved in a number of such emergency relief endeavors in India.

Pune, India


Donation of sports equipment for the hearing impaired students who study and live at Wagholi.

Gujarat earthquake assistance: Boy in the middle in front of his family’s house and car.

Orphanage and School for Street Children and the Poor

One of our main programs is supporting an orphanage in Wagholi, which majors in taking in street children or abandoned babies. So these children have showed up from various sources, from the police bringing orphan children begging at train stations, to children of nomadic people who have abandoned their children.

Feeding and Caring for the Hungry

We often bring people by the Wagholi school where we work, where the man who started the facility, Mr. Jhadav, shares how he has dedicated his life to help nomad children.

AIDS Community Work

As an extension of assisting AIDS treatment centers, we began researching the feasibility of opening an orphanage for AIDS children. We now have a pledge of land donated to us for use of building a 40-bed AIDS hospice. It is over one acre and is a prime piece of land full of trees, greenery, and functioning well. The building itself will also be used as a dispensary for medicine for AIDS patients, plus housing a ward for a children’s orphanage.

Recreating a Community Center in the Slums

We met Mr. and Mrs. Hashmi through a friend who has worked with some of our team here in India. This friend, Aruna, a social worker and child psychologist, got in touch with us when we first came to Pune and put us in touch with a lot of orphanages, schools and other institutions that needed the sort of help we give, including humanitarian aid, social improvement education, and teaching English.

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