Click on the image above to view a Google video about HOINA made by student volunteers from Penn State University's Schreyer Honors College.

In two separate orphanages, one for girls and young ladies, a separate facility for the gentlemen, HOINA (Homes of the Indian Nation) houses, feeds, clothes and educates south India's abandoned, abused, and orphaned children—from infancy to adulthood—providing food, clothing, medical care, education, and training them for professional careers.

HOINA's goal is to develop successful, productive, responsible members of society—each joyful and self-confident, each with a marketable skill or talent that will allow them to support themselves.

Since HOINA’s doors first opened in 1978, the organization has sheltered more than 1,000 children. HOINA's graduates have gone on to successful careers as educators, artists, engineers, and business professionals.

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March 2008

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HOINA is a not-for-profit 501 (c)(3) corporation in the United States and a registered trust in India. HOINA receives no government funding. Although a Christian organization, HOINA welcomes and serves children from all castes, creeds, and religions.

The New Hope Rural Leprosy Trust of Muniguda, Orissa is not associated with HOINA (Homes of the Indian Nation) founded by Darlene D. Large.