New Look Online!

Please visit our website (www.handstohearts.org) where you will find a new and improved design with pages full of beautiful banner images that truly represent the work and message of HHI's mission: to improve the lives of disadvantaged children worldwide.  You will also find updated information about HHI's program and history, current and archived HHI news, how HHI reaches children through women's empowerment, and about the profound impact of HHI on children's health and relationships.

And, if you want to really be moved and inspired by HHI's international movement of women's empowerment and children's health, please view this beautiful photo gallery of HHI's work in India by clicking here.

Then, when you've looked at these photos and want to know what to do next, please visit HHI's take action page that offers a variety of ways for you to support HHI and spread the news about our work: on the Internet and beyond.

HHI's Story on Film

Our webiste has also been updated with a video room and you can watch our most recent updates by clicking on the links below:

• Hands to Hearts Executive Director Laura Peterson gives acceptance speech for her award from Soroptimist International for making a difference in the lives of women world wide.

•  Women's Empowerment; watch a brief collection of scenes showing how HHI activates women to empower themselves and change their communities.

• Listen to the story of adoptive parents who have been positively affected and forever changed by HHI's work with an orphanage in India.
  
  

HHI's Blog (http://handstohearts.blogspot.com/)

Read more about the touching stories of HHI's journey at the following blog entries:

• Love the Baby.  Read how HHI's communications officer Liz Kimmerly realized HHI's very universal and spiritual significance after reflecting on a trip she took to a Hindu temple in Malibu, California. 

• HHI in Budapest Laura blogs about HHI's invitation to present our work at the International Step by Step Association's (ISSA) conference this October in Budapest, Hungary. The ISSA is an innovative network of early childhood education and development professionals and organizations. This year's conference focus is Active Citizenship: Democratic Practices in Education, and it is organized in partnership with the World Forum Foundation. 

• Love is the Answer  Liz blogs about an episode from This American Life called "Unconditional Love" which is all about childhood bonding and its significance in America,  and relates it to the message of HHI's work.

• Honoring Mothers  In April HHI Trainer, Sujatha, went on a one-woman-power-tour of training. She went village to village leading HHI Trainings to 108 mothers, pregnant mothers-to-be and grandmothers. Women flocked to the trainings, bringing their babies and children to be a part of the learning and sharing.
  

• More Than 10,000 Children In April, HHI crossed an amazing threshold; we have now served over 10,000 children. To be exact, HHI has trained 1,222 women - orphanage caregivers, pre-school teachers, creche center workers, village mothers and grandmothers - who are now providing more nurturing and attentive care to 10,258 babies and children!!! Considering that in the most challenging of environments of orphanages, that Hands to Hearts' support has literally meant the difference of life and death, this is an astounding impact! 

• PSU Graduate School of Education-June 2008

• Portland State University Magazine Spring 2008: Helping Children A World Away

Thank you so much for supporting HHI and its work towards healthier and happier babies and children.  Please follow our exciting developments and look for more to come soon.

Sincerely,

Laura Peterson
Hands to Hearts International 

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       - Kim Rohn

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