Funding, in convertible debt, also coming from Thrive Capital and Khosla Ventures
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A kind-hearted Indian expat in Dubai is building a home for 95 human trafficking and slavery victims in Chennai.
Lissy Donald, from the south Indian state of Kerala, has been helping these children with education for a decade now and soon they'll have their own home.
Donald, who runs her own travel firm in the UAE, said seeing children in terrible conditions would always "break her heart", so she decided to help. She launched the 'Heavenly Mission' back in 2006 and has been helping distraught kids since then.
"As a young executive in Chennai, it would break my heart to see little children on the streets with dirty, torn clothes and no shoes, just whiling away time or begging. I would give them money when my purse allowed me to, but I soon realised that this was not an answer to end their misery. The next logical step was to try and educate them, making their young, impressionable minds positive and hopeful," Donald said.
"Most of the children rescued were from the roadside, or victims of slavery and human trafficking. Today, at the 'Heavenly Mission 'these children are given the care, attention, and skill development opportunities, which will help shape their future. Moreover, just recently, the trust was able to lay the foundation stone for a home for these children."
All of the children are in different homes right now, however, they will live together once the house is completed. The funding for the house is being taken care of by Donald's business in Dubai, called Compass International Tours.
The Heavenly Mission has been able to buy a land for the house and the construction will begin shortly. The house will shelter children who were either trafficked, kept as slaves or were abandoned by their parents.
Donald shared a case study of a 16-year-old girl who was abandoned by her parents when she just seven-months-old. Heavenly Mission took her in and helped her education. "I am a proud parent as she has passed her Grade 12 exam and is going to join the college for higher studies," she said.
"I want to help these children develop a skill that will make them proud of themselves and make me proud too. Obviously, it will help them earn a decent livelihood and I feel it's imperative for me to instill a sense of hope in these children. I want my children to believe in themselves and in me. I want them to believe that I will always be there for them, should they need me."
Funding, in convertible debt, also coming from Thrive Capital and Khosla Ventures
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