Care and educate slum kids in Guntur, India

Many Greetings and good wishes to you from BASS, India

Thank you very much for your kind continuous generous support to the children with us through this project for the last 9 years.

After 2nd Covid lockdown in India, schools were reopened from 1^st August 2021. Our project primary schools also reopened and operating with strict Covid prevention measures.

Unfortunately most of the children felt very sad situations during Covid lockdown days and become weak with sick due to starvation.  Most of the slum families lost their income and unable to feed sufficiently to the children. Still no works and besides unfortunate rains and floods continuously affecting the daily wage works. Moreover the Covid is not stopped completely in India and third wave is entered recently and government, other responsible departments and voluntary organizations like us warn and educating people to protect from Covid through Covid appropriate Behavior measures.

All our children are coming again to school from first week of August after Covid 2 wave  lockdown , and they are very happy to attend school and get primary education and having mid day meal. 

At present 150 children coming to our schools in two slums locations. Still new admissions are progressing. 22 children successfully completed primary education and promoted to high school education

We distributed education kits include uniforms, note books and schools bags. We are also provided hygiene kits along with essential food   dry ration kits to children families. This project is operating by 5 Teachers and 2 care takers. Teachers are doing great job to the children and not only teaching education but also training children and their families to protect from Covid infections. After Covid second wave relaxation, with instructions from government, all our teachers and supporting staff team are already working before children come to the schools.    

Unfortunately, our project staff is not get salaries from government for the last 8 months and very difficult feed their families. And also we are not able to get support locally and we are totally depending upon your kind help only to provide daily mid day meal programs for the children and other project operating expenses of two schools.

Due to Covid break for the last one and half year this project is not get sufficient donations,  therefore  we  humbly requesting you to kindly give a new donation to this project now to continue to care and educate 150 children in this project.

Currently we have a good opportunity, GlobalGiving offering matching grant benefits from new monthly donations (up to $200 per unique donor) started between December 13 and December 17, 2021 will have their first donation matched at 200% after four (4) total payments.

Please also kindly share the project with all your friends. Once again thank you so much for your kind support and partnership to care and educate children in Guntur. 

Sincerely with gratitude

Dear friends 

Greetings and good wishes to you from BASS, India

Thank you so much for your kind generous continuous support to the children with us through this project for the last 9 years 

 Unfortunately, the academic year 2021 is also interrupted due to covid 19 second wave from April 2021. All schools and educational institutions run only for four months this year and stopped due to highest covid infections in India as daily reaching 4 lakhs positive cases and 4000 deaths. Therefore, again the lockdown is implemented throughout India as well as in Andhra Pradesh also. Government has been declared that all students of Primary, high school and +2 courses were passed and promoted to next classes without conducting annual exams.  April, May and June are the severe dangerous months in India due to highest infections and deaths throughout India as well as in Guntur also. 

At present the covid infections are slower down but not stopped yet. Moreover, expect a third wave in India, which will be more effective to children.  Still night time lock down is implemented as well as cluster level full lockdown also implemented where more covid positive cases are recorded.  

BASS schools centres are also closed and we are actively distributing monthly essential food ration and hygiene kits to children and their families. As you know, most of the children from our school centres are very poor and their families are daily wage workers but for the last one and a half years they have lost work due to covid lockdowns.  And all schools closed so the children too were not able to access daily mid-day meals from school.  Therefore, children are at high risk of starvation currently and who are just staying at homes without any tasks.   

Currently the covid infections are decreasing as daily 200 covid infections only registering in Guntur district and the government of Andhra Pradesh is going to reopen the schools from 16^th of August 2021 for the new academic year 2021-22 if infections are not increased. 

Already our teachers and staff members are   daily attending schools without children in the classrooms but they visit families and make aware children and their parents on covid appropriate behaviour, importance of vaccination and wearing masks, proper hand washing and social distancing.  And also distributing nutrition food and essential food groceries to their families. 

We humbly request you to kindly support the children and their families to give urgent food groceries and operational costs of our three schools centres for this new academic year.

Please kindly support children's books, education material, uniforms and mid-day meal programs.

Hopefully the schools will not disturb again anymore and continue with all your generous support 

Thank you so much 

with gratitude