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TROLL Trust

Project Director Tami Evans

Many children in southeast India live in impoverished situations with little opportunity for education, good nutrition, and a safe and secure living environment.  The TROLL Trust supports the needs of 125 children living in the Nambikkai Illam orphanage, children of day laborers in the Vellore area, and children living in the streets of Vellore.  Additionally, the TROLL Trust identified a home near Nambikkai Illam that provides care for 80 deaf and handicapped children. TROll Trust works with volunteers from the CMC Hospital in Vellore, India who serve as administrators and distributors of funds. We have been able to provide new school uniforms and school supplies such as notebooks and pencils on an annual basis. We have also distributed hygiene and dental supplies to ensure good health for the students. As many of the children live on meager diets, TROLL Trust has funded ongoing distributions of high-nutrition food supplements. One of the most exciting purchases was four computers to aid in the children's vocational training, an important step for their future.

Recently, our colleagues in India who help to administer and direct the distribution of the TROLL Trust funds, identified three more orphanages and a total of 400 children who need our help.  Our goal is to also assist them with provision of school supplies, hygiene and dental items, and ongoing distributions of high-nutrition food to supplement the children’s meager diets.

  Providing:
  • School Uniforms
  • School Supplies
  • Hygiene & Dental Products
  • High-Nutrition Food Supplements
  • Computers

The work of the TROLL Trust is an ongoing endeavor to meet the needs of children in southeast India.  To date, the TROLL Trust has helped more than 200 children in meeting their educational, nutritional, health-related, and residential needs.  Our hope is to continue to work with colleagues in India to continue to support the children's needs and to also identify ways for the orphanages to gain self-sustainability.  Helping the children to learn valuable computer skills through vocational training has been identified as one way to create long-term sustainability.  Our goal is to purchase 16 more computers for the deaf and handicapped children's home which will assist with their ongoing vocational training.