Hope for the Children in Alliance Hostel Dholka,

            Dholka, a city in the State of Gurajat, has been affected not only by the poor quality of cultivable land but also by the high number of children growing up homeless and in extreme poverty. Dholka Alliance Hostel and School has served this community for 117 years. Amid all the poverty, a little drop of hope fell on children’s lives in the midst of India’s water crisis that communities have faced over the years. It started in 1904, in the wake of the drought in Gurajat, when Alliance missionaries from North America founded the Dholka Alliance Hostel and School. There wasn’t enough food and farmers lost their harvests – like several communities are experiencing in current days. During that time, missionaries and local leaders reached out to families with the desire to help them. What missionaries found in Dholka was a dramatic situation. There was no institute or school for the children and many of them were poor, orphans or semi-orphans, living out on the streets. With no one to care for them, children hardly never got the opportunity to study and have a better future. The first thing the missionaries did was to bring children from the surrounding areas and provide them with food and a place to live.

             Today, there are many students from Five to 15 years of age in the Dholka,GUJARAT SYNOD CHRISTIAN EDUCATION TRUST, Hostel and School. After they graduate, many hold high positions in companies and offices, A rain of blessings is falling on the lives of these girls and boys for the glory of God.

            This academy year, Dholka Alliance School has more than 180 children enrolled. The orphan and semi-orphan children are the very heart of the mission. There are more than 80 children staying in Dholka hostel, with all the facilities such as food, clothing and shelter. Though all come from abandonment situations, they are now part of this family, rescuing the value of their identity and being treated as beautiful creations of God. Along with their education, they also have lessons of morality and spiritual discipline. Through one family whose children were staying at the hostel & continue to help each of these children grow in their faith and follow their own unique dreams, passions and talents.