Child Protection India Project #45621

Provide Daily Nutritious Meals to Slum Children

by The Bharath Abhyudaya Seva Samithi

Project Report | Jun 17, 2024
Nourishing Hope: Providing Daily Meals to Underprivilaged slum Children in Guntur, India

By Joseph Anthony Chukka | Project Leader

Dear donors and friends,

Namaste! We extend our heartfelt gratitude for your unwavering support to our Covid Relief Project. Although your assistance ceased approximately two years ago, we deeply appreciate the impact you’ve made. Despite the official end of the Covid emergency, many people in India continue to grapple with health challenges and financial hardships. Your timely aid during those critical times allowed us to operate Covid relief programs, support families during lockdowns, and raise awareness about prevention.

Since our inception, we have diligently served both rural and urban communities in Guntur and Andhra Pradesh. Over the past four years, we’ve reached approximately 20,000 families, providing essential services and fostering resilience.

Now, we are seeking your help to provide daily nutritious meals to 70 underprivileged children living in the slums of Guntur. We will establish a dedicated kitchen facility within the slum, equipped with cooking utensils, stoves, and hygiene essentials, along with a cook. Each day, we’ll serve a balanced evening meal to 70 children, ensuring essential nutrients and healthcare. Additionally, we’ll educate both children and parents about hygiene, sanitation, and nutrition.

Currently, the new academic year started from June 13, 2024, and all the children in the project are very poor and do not have sufficient nutrition in their homes. A donation of at least $500 is sufficient to provide a daily meal to 70 children in our project slum in Guntur.

Once again, thank you so much for your continued trust and support.

Despite receiving only $480 from all your generous donations over the past four months, we humbly request you to kindly make a new donation or subscribe to a small monthly donation for this project. And also kindly shre the project with all your social media networks.

Thank you.

with gratitude

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Feb 19, 2024
project Update - Covid Emergency Relief: Saving Lives and Supporting Communities in Guntur District

By Joseph Anthony Chukka | Project Leader

Dear Friends and Donors,

Namsthe,

Greetings from Bharath Abhyudaya Seva Samithi (BASS) India!

We hope you and your loved ones are safe and healthy.

This report covers the activities and outcomes of our Covid Emergency Relief program from November 2023 to February 2024. We received only US$470 from this project, but we used other sources to run our program. We are grateful to all our donors who made this possible.

With your generous donations, we helped the most vulnerable people in Guntur district. Here are some of the things we did:

We gave nutritious food kits twice to 50 orphaned HIV-infected children in Guntur. The kits had rice, lentils, oil, sugar, salt, spices, pulses, fruits, and vegetables. The children also got blankets, soaps, and toothbrushes. These items improved their health and hygiene and prevented infections.

We cared for 100 elderly people by giving them daily meals and medical needs. We ran a daily meal program for 100 neglected elderly people in two locations in Guntur district. These elderly people had no family or relatives to support them. They lived in poverty and isolation. Our meal program gave them food, social interaction, and emotional support. We also checked their health, gave them medicines, and referred them to doctors.

We taught the slum families and children how to prevent Covid or other diseases. We also told them to be clean and protect themselves from mosquitoes. We gave them masks, sanitizers, soap, and mosquito nets. We also did awareness campaigns and street plays on Covid prevention and vaccination with local health authorities.

During this quarter, especially in December, our areas were hit by Michoung Cyclones and lost livelihood and crops. Our Disaster Preparedness Relief team acted quickly and gave ration kits to 300 cyclone-affected families in Guntur District. The kits had rice, lentils, oil, sugar, salt, spices, biscuits, blankets, and tarpaulin roof sheets. We also helped them rebuild their huts with tarpaulin sheets.

We are happy to report that we did not find any severe Covid cases in our target areas, but we are still careful and alert as many people are suffering from viral fevers with Covid symptoms. Dengue and other fevers are also hurting the people, and they spread fast among the family members.

We are also worried about the high number of people who had Covid before and who are dying suddenly because of lung, heart, or other damage without knowing they were sick.

Therefore, we ask you to kindly donate to the project again to continue our activities for the slums, elderly people, and vulnerable children in Guntur. Your timely care, love, and compassion can make a big difference in their lives.

We also ask you to kindly support our new micro project to give Bicycles to poor slum students to go to high schools schools outside the slums. Please see the project link and make a donation to fulfil the goal of the Micro project.

Support Bicycles for Slum Students

Thank you for your generous support and trust in our work.

We look forward to receiving your kind help for the most affected children and elderly.

With gratitude,

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Oct 23, 2023
Project Upadate- Covid Relief 2023 in Guntur district, India

By Joseph Anthony Chukka | Project Leader

Dear Friends and Donors, Namsthe,

Greetings from Bharath Abhyudaya Seva Samithi (BASS) India!

We hope you and your loved ones are safe and healthy.

We are very grateful for your generous donations to support our Covid Emergency Relief program in India. With your help, we have been able to provide essential relief and care to the most vulnerable communities in Guntur district.

From July to October 2023, we received only US$480 from this project, but we managed to use other available sources to implement the following activities:

We distributed food dry ration kits and hygiene supplies to 200 COVID-impacted families in two slums of Guntur district.

We supported 50 orphaned HIV-infected children in Guntur with nutritious food kits twice.

We provided daily breakfast and evening meals to 40 waste picker family’s children in Guntur city for one month.

We gave a small cash support to 10 staff and volunteers of BASS to cover some of their family needs.

We also provided medical aid to 5 severely ill-bedridden patients with walker callipers and wheelchairs.

We continiouly cared for 100 elderly people by providing them with daily meals and medical needs. We operated a daily meal program for 100 neglected elderly people in two locations in Guntur district.

We educated the slum families and children on how to prevent Covid or other diseases with preventive habits. We also made them aware of the importance of hygiene and protecting themselves from mosquitoes.

We are happy to report that there is no identification of severe Covid cases in our target areas, but we are still vigilant and cautious as many people are suffering from viral fevers with Covid symptoms. Dengue and other fevers are also severely affecting the people, and they spread quickly among the family members.

We are also concerned about the high number of people who were previously affected by Covid and who are suddenly passing away due to issues of lungs, heart or other damages without prior identification of ill health.

Therefore, we request you to kindly donate to the project again to continue our project activities for the slums, elderly people and vulnerable children in Guntur. Your timely care, love and compassion can make a huge difference in their lives.

Thank you for your generous support and trust in our work.

We look forward to receiving your kind continued help for the most affected children and elderly.

with gratitude,

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