Provide Daily Nutritious Meals to Slum Children

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,