Boys and Girls Christian Home (BGCH) formerly known as “Boys Christian Home” in India is to provide orphan and needy children with all the benefits of home, a safe place to live and grow, love and also good education. BGCH does this to contribute to the development of productive citizens of India.

There are on average 200 boys and girls who are living in the BGCH campus and who call this campus their “HOME”. Some have no parents some have only one however, all have been brought to us because there are inadequate means to feed and take care of them.

The students are educated both on and o the campus for elementary and secondary education. Tuition for trade and secondary education is also provided. We provide expenses and care for the medical needs of the children here on the campus. We have to provide salaries for around 25 staff which provide help and care to these children and also to those who helps us in the maintenance of the campus.

OUR AIMS FOR THIS NEEDY CHILDREN

• Rescue and care for orphans and needy children

• Giving love to all the children irrespective of caste, creed, colour, gender or religion

• Empower children with the education they dream of

• To help them grow, learn and develop to their fullest potential.

• Giving scope to their artistic qualities

History

Since 1899, the Boys & Girls Christian home has been responding to the needs of children’s of India. The original Boys Christian home, began as an orphanage in the small town near Pune, which was founded by American missionaries during the terrible feminine at the turn of last century. In 1899, a missionary named Albert Norton and his wife Mary witnessed the growing number of starving people and especially the orphan boys and so they started this home with a lot of faith. In the decade that followed, the Home continued to grow, and hundreds of boys passed through its hall. The Norton’s eventually returned to US, and the torch of this responsibility was passed to Morning Cheer, a Philadelphia based radio program run by Rev.George Palmer. He began supporting the home in 1940’s and since then the Palmer’s are carrying the burden of this ministry.

A wonderful development occurred in 1992, when the Home began accepting girls and built a new dormitory for them. From then the name of the Home was changed from Boys Christian Home to Boys and Girls Christian Home.

If the history of this home to be summed in one word, it would be “continuity”, although it has seen many change and development in its 125 years of existence “Continuity” has been maintain because the home and those who have been involved with it have remained focus on its mission, contributing to the advancement of India by ministering to the needs of the children.