Provide Daily Nutritious Meals to Slum Children

Dear friends 

Greetings and best wishes to you and your family. Stay safe!

Thank you so much for your kind donations and support to the BASS Covid Relief project for the last 11 months. Thank you GlobalGiving for giving us a great opportunity to get support from people around the world as well as relief grants to care and protect from Covid 19 through this project.  

BASS is continuously distributing urgent essential food ration kits and sanitary kits to 7000 families in rural and urban slums in Guntur, Prakasam districts of Andhra Pradesh and Yadadri district of Telangana since April 2020. BASS also distributed Blankets and winter blankets to the neediest people in roadside dwellers. And also, continuously providing daily nutritive meal support to 30 aged people at Dasaripalem slum and also distributed monthly ration to aged care homes in Sattenapalli and Chilakaluripet. BASS is also orgnising school children covid prevention awarness programs.   

Most of the Covid lockdown restrictions are relieved in India and slowly normalising situations have come up since January 2021. Schools, markets, cinema theatres, religious places and everything opened normally and people are moving freely by their individual protections.

But unfortunately, at present again a Covid second wave is started. And there is no official Covid restrictions implementing and the Covid positive cases are increasing day by day in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh India 

A little relief is that the Covid patient’s recovery rate is better as well as Covid prevention vaccination drives are going on well in India. But people need contntious awareness on Covid prevention methods because no one is not taking care to protect from Covid.

Covid second wave warns people and no one know how fast it would spread in the communities dangerously.                  

Unfortunately, Covid 19 affects a lot in the lives of poor families as well as middle class families, who lost jobs and still do not get regular incomes to feed their families.  

So far 75747 Covid positive cases registered in Guntur district and almost 75000 cases have been recovered and 571 people died with corona until 2nd March 2021.     At present an average 7 new Covid positive cases are registering again in Guntur and number is expanding day by day.  

BASS is continuously operating essential food ration distribution, daily food support to aged, blankets distribution to street dwellers, facemasks and sanitary kits to children in BASS Covid relief project areas. 

I humbly requesting you to kindly help again to the project to continue food supplies along with Covid prevention sanitary kits to children. And also support to conduct BASS Covid prevention awareness camps at family and schools level. 

Thank you so much 

With gratitude          

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Dear Friends and donors

Greetings and good wishes to you from BASS- India. Hope you are safe and stay well

Thank you so much for your kind support to provide essential food and sanitary supplies to the neediest vulnerable families in Guntur Andhra Pradesh.  We are also sending our heartfelt gratitude to GlobalGiving for donation support by providing us a great opportunity to operate Covid 19 relief camps to needy families in India.  

BASS India is continuously organizing Covid 19 emergency relief to most affected needy areas in slums and villages in Guntur and Prakhasham district. Soafar we are able to distributed essential food ration kits supplies to 5500 families with all your help and Globalgving.  

 we are sharing a story from one of our Covid relief beneficiary Samrajyam  as follows in English version

Namsthe!

I am  Samrajyam aged about 52 years living in a hut at Roadside in Guntur.  I have been working as a daily Maid servant in local houses since my childhood and feeding my family. My husband is a Rickshaw puller (Try Cycle) and alcohol addicted with severe heart problems. I am only the bread winner for my family.  I gave birth to 8 children but in which 2 girls died at an early age and three daughters and my elder son got married.  I am living with my three sons, my elder niece and my husband in our small house.

Unfortunately, Covid 19 lockdownis  negatively affects our family alot with the highest risk of starvation due to the loss of jobs. My sons lost their jobs working as daily wage servers (suppliers) in a hotel and another son selling coconuts on road and I also lost my job since March 2020. My husband is also died during the Covid lockdown times in June due to his health issues and no medical facilities available at strict lockdown days.

During the lockdown days our family just is stay at home and not allowed to go out and no income and no food. While I work in local houses with a small monthly wage and also get leftover food from my employer families. But due to corona virus expansion with strict lockdown implementation no one helped us and no one allowed to come near their houses. Therefore, we faced very tough difficult times even suffered allot to have a single meal for few days.

At these unfortunate days BASS India come forwarded to helped us with an essential food commodities two times in June and October to feed our families to cover a period of two weeks. we are very happy to have meal for few days.  still works are not started for us.   Thank you BASS and all the team for your best kind relief services to the most needy.

with Gratitude - Samrajyam  

Like Samrajyam not only the daily wage workers but also  even private school teachers, private job holders, other temporary daily wage job holders and many lost jobs on  account of Covid. Not only poor families but also middle calss families suffered allot currently at risk of stravtion. Still the affect of Covid Lockdown continuing for of 70% of the families in Guntur District.  

Therefore durign the last three months BASS is distributed esential food ration kits to most needy families in cludes private school teachers, temporary job holders and advocates and helpers and sanitation workers.  BASS is also specially concentrate to distribute urgent food relief to disabled (who lost help due to Covid) aged, widows and neglected children. BASS is also distributed financial support to poor families who needs to pay  basic household and medical needs. BASS is continuously  operating a community kitchen  to supply daily cooked food to 30 most vulnerable neglected aged people in a big slum in Guntur.  BASS is also distributed a monthly ration  support to 3 care homes in Guntur district and continuing. Along with relief BASS staff and Volunteers are making awareness on Covid prevention methods with social distancing methods.  

We are also submitting that Covid 19 is not stopped in India and still fast spreading at community and family level. Everyday an average 400 covid posive cases register currently.  But recovery rate is  better and still less restricted COVID-19 lockdown is implementing and no gathering and no schools started yet. still most of the families are struggling to get daily food due to all the income lost as well as no works started. Many people and children affected ill-health as well as Corona positives. Unfortunately Covid Positive patients and symptomatic people are not able to have immunity boost food supplies to recover from Corona.         

Therefore we humbly requesting you to kindly support our urgent covid relief project to help many families who are at risk of starvation due to no jobs. The ration kits contain essential food and sanitary items as an average cost $10. One small family of 3 members can access food to survive at least for one week. Please also share the project link and do fundraise. 

Thank you so much

with Gratitude

Links:

• Urgent - Make a donation to feed 30 aged people - Micro Project

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