Summary
The Winter Warmth Appeal gives blankets and warm clothing directly to families and children who live on the streets and in desperately poor communities in Bihar India
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For an eight-week period in December to January the temperature can go down to near freezing point. For the poor, particularly children without blankets and any warm clothing this dangerous damp cold claims lives every year. The appeal was started following the death of a young girl in the night from the cold in her simple village dwelling and the appeal was started in the Hope this would never happen again in the villages and communities in which we work.
Working closely with our teachers and community health workers we are able to identify families and children in need and effectively distribute blankets and clothing directly to those most in need of them.
Total Funding Received to Date: $4,778
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $222
Total Funding Goal: $5,000
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
This appeal is a response to an annual need and is humanitarian in nature. However over the past 5 years we have distributed over 5,000 blankets and 1000 warm sweaters to desperately poor children, saving great distress and even lives.
When we visit the villages in the winter months we often see children shivering and crying from the cold. With this appeal we know we can help them immediately
- Sangeeta Roy, Project Manager Health Project
Nick Hansen
Project Liason Officer
Gyan Vikas Centre
Dhobi Gaya Rd
Bodhgaya, Bihar Gaya 824231
India
09431223031
Email:
People First Educational Charitable Trust
Gyan Vikas Centre Dhobi
Gaya Rd,
Bihar
824231
India
00919934054182
http://www.peoplefirstindia.net
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This project is located in
India
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Health.
For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.
This project was last updated on December 24, 2009.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 2, 2008
By Nick Hansen - Project Director, December 24, 2009 10:16 AM

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