Empower Feed Educate Single mother headed families

Dear Friends,
NAMASTE!

The year 2020 is coming to an end. With so much love and generosity from all you kind souls we see a (clear) silver lining behind the dark clouds. Thank you so much.

In Pokhara, our service area, the situation in slowly normalizing, schools are planning to reopen soon. We are optimistic and hopeful we will be able to resume our activities at full scale soon(er).

Due to the pandemic and the collapse of the economy, Nepal is facing a humanitarian disaster of an unprecedented scale! 40% of Nepal’s population, approximately 12 million people, is poor. This means that they are living on less than $ 1.25, - a day. Those who are suffering most are widows and single mothers!

The majority of them are day-laborers, which means to say, that they are literally living from the hand in the mouth. Since the beginning of the lockdown six months ago, people are out of work and they are without any revenues.

Most of these people live in the villages in higher altitudes between 500-M and 1500 M. For many, the freezing cold in the winter and the lack of warm clothes and blankets, combined with malnourishment is a fatal combination and this especially for children.

We are doing what we can to provide some of the most needy and vulnerable with the basic requirements for survival under these harsh circumstances.

So far this year we provided the following support for our target-groups:

 ACTIVITY REPORTS in Facts & Figures!

MEALS: 28.375 nutritious meals

Clothes: 164 sets of warm winter clothes and caps

Shoes: 82 pairs of shoes and socks

Soap: 20.500 pieces

Shampoo: 80.000 doses

Sanitary pads: 4.896

Toothbrushes: 924

Toothpaste: 630

Face masks: 2.460

Education-support: for 119 children

Medical-support/advise: for 86 beneficiaries

This winter will be a huge challenge for all of us. We are determined and organized to reach out to many more that are in desperate need of our support!

But we are only able to do this with your support!

Thank you all for your kindness and generosity.

Gratefully yours,

Surendra & TEAM
Bahini Educare Foundation

SDG Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Dear Friends, Families & Well wishers,
Greetings!!

First and Foremost, all our beneficiaries are healthy and thriving. And by God's grace no one has contracted the corona virus, but life really has been very difficult for all alike.

Our country has gone into a complete lockdown and shut down after that for over 5 months which got many, many struggling. Our offices remained shut during the said times but not us. We did whatever was possible from home and the phones and ofcourse internet!!

We concluded that children were the most vulnerable and needed constant reminding that it's short term and that life will remain to normalcy sooner. That's why our staffs got busy in communication since the very beginning. Most of our work was calling and talking to them parents and children, in particuar. These revolved around explaining corona virus, its symptoms and all preventive measures.

As time passed on there was more restlessness and uncertainity. Children's education was hampered and things would  be slowly moving out of hands and parents were helpless.

Thus we decided to act on this. We therefore brought books and all stationary items and distributed to all the children that we were supporting. This was followed by communication to the mothers and children alike. We asked them to indulge in a little bit of studying every few hours. 

This way they were learning from their books and also about corona virus and health from our staffs.

Not a big thing, but helped making a difference!!

Thank you every one for your kindness and genoristy.

Namaste!!