The original Boys and Girls Christian home began as an orphanage in Dhond, a small town near Pune, which was founded by American and British missionaries during a terrible famine at the turn of the last century. In 1899, Methodist missionary Albert Norton and his wife, Mary, witnessing the growing number of starving people, and especially orphans, started the Home with $60 and a lot of faith. In the decades that followed, the Home continued to grow and hundreds of boys passed through the halls. the Nortons eventually returned to the United States, but their granddaughter Miss M. Ruth Norton returned to Dhond and was chief administrator there for many years. |
