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ROSE OF TRALEE Maggie McEldowney has arrived safely in India where she will spend the week volunteering with The Hope Foundation and see first-hand the day-to-day struggles of the children living on the streets and in the slums of Kolkata.

Hope is a charity supporting overseas development and tackling humanitarian issues in Kolkata, India. Hope works with the most vulnerable street and slum children and their families. The charity operates over 60 projects in Kolkata and has provided 30,000 children with access to education and a further 300,000 adults with access to healthcare and training programmes.

Maggie will visit the Hope projects including their child protection centres established to get the children off the streets and into education. Many of the children, who have come through Hope education centres, return to work with Hope in their training centres.

Speaking from India, Hope honorary director Maureen Forrest said: “Maggie is a fantastic role model and we are delighted she agreed to become an ambassador for Hope. We are thrilled that she accepted our invitation to come to Kolkata and visit the girls and boys in our projects.”
Maggie is the seventh Rose of Tralee to be announced as an Ambassador for Irish charity, The HOPE Foundation.

Follow Maggie’s |Journey of Hope” on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/HopeFoundationIreland, https://www.facebook.com/roseoftraleefestival/ and Twitter, @HopeFoundation and @roseoftralee_
 

 
Rose of Tralee Maggie McEldowney. PICTURE: DOMNICK WALSH