Dr. Graham’s Homes Japan Committee


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Dr. Graham’s Homes Japan Committee (Miyazaki International Volunteer Center ) has been working to support the children of Dr. Graham’s Homes School since 1991. We have been rising found for the children of the Dr. Graham’s Homes from many kinds of charity events, such as movie shows, art exhibitions, lectures, curry parties, bazaar e.g.. In 1999, we established the Green House Project. This was to give the children more job opportunity after their graduation. With the support from Miyazaki Prefectural government, 5 graduate students of DGH school came to Japan to learn the floriculture. After they went back to Kalimpong, they have been successfully growing flowers, such as sweet peas and delphiniums. Moreover, under the agreement of Indian and Japanese government, we are now working on " the Green House Community Service Project", we called it the JICA project. This program is about spreading the horticultural cultivation techniques to the local area from the Green House. Through this project (3 years), we are expecting that the economy of Kalimpong area will be vitalized and the income of the people will increase. Our long-term goal of the project is to improve the quality of life in the area, so that more opportunity to receive education will be given to the children of the area.

Dr,Grahams Homes site

The School that looks beyond

Rev. John Anderson Graham of Kalimpong laid the foundation of his dream- a school, a home for orphaned and abandoned Anglo-Indian children in 1990. His dream has survived for over a hundred years now. Today Dr. Graham’s Homes, proudly safe-guarding the name of its Founder and his ideals, still remains the only school that caters to over three hundred and fifty supported Anglo-Indian children. In a world where traditions have given way to modernization and globalization, this small island of hope and love still survives against all odds, balancing with great skill the traditional with the modern, amalgamating old values, introducing modern techniques, but never quite relinquishing the invisible threads tying it to the great dream that was started more than a hundred　years ago! This is the uniqueness of the Homes, this is what makes the Homes so different from any other school anywhere else in the world!

The Homes is quite unlike any other school. Spread over an area of 500 acres with the school as its hub, the Homes has various departments- there is the workshop, estate, farm, clothing, bakery, central kitchen, hospital – all looking after the needs of more than 1300 students. Apart from the cottages and hostels for the student, there is also the Lucia King which houses the pre-school babies, the buildings that house the school, the library and the museum, the gym, the central kitchen, the art room, staff housing, hospital, farm, the Ahava Guest House and the Holiday Home, etc.



Out line of coming projects


We accomplished the technological transfer of cultivation of flowers and ornamental plants, vegetables etc. in last three-year Green House Project.

Our next aim is to make utmost use of the existing Technology Center to strengthen and expand its training function in order to nurture leaders who have high production technology and management technology.
This area’s main marketing distribution is negotiation transaction and lawn sale. If we can expand products in scale, we need to promote producers’ awareness about expanding marketing.



Out line of coming projects

1. Establishment of Agricultural Training System for Youth Farmers in Kalimpong Area
・ Short-Term Training Program One month
Medium-Term Training Program Six months
Long-Term Training Program One year
・ Trainings based on theory and Practice

2. Establishment of System for collection and shipment of goods by agricultural producers themselves.
・ Market Cultivation
・ PR Activity for Organic Products to Urban Area