Care and Educate slum kids in Guntur, India

Dear friends 

Greetings and good wishes to you from BASS, India

Thank you so much for your kind generous continuous support to the children with us through this project for the last 9 years 

 Unfortunately, the academic year 2021 is also interrupted due to covid 19 second wave from April 2021. All schools and educational institutions run only for four months this year and stopped due to highest covid infections in India as daily reaching 4 lakhs positive cases and 4000 deaths. Therefore, again the lockdown is implemented throughout India as well as in Andhra Pradesh also. Government has been declared that all students of Primary, high school and +2 courses were passed and promoted to next classes without conducting annual exams.  April, May and June are the severe dangerous months in India due to highest infections and deaths throughout India as well as in Guntur also. 

At present the covid infections are slower down but not stopped yet. Moreover, expect a third wave in India, which will be more effective to children.  Still night time lock down is implemented as well as cluster level full lockdown also implemented where more covid positive cases are recorded.  

BASS schools centres are also closed and we are actively distributing monthly essential food ration and hygiene kits to children and their families. As you know, most of the children from our school centres are very poor and their families are daily wage workers but for the last one and a half years they have lost work due to covid lockdowns.  And all schools closed so the children too were not able to access daily mid-day meals from school.  Therefore, children are at high risk of starvation currently and who are just staying at homes without any tasks.   

Currently the covid infections are decreasing as daily 200 covid infections only registering in Guntur district and the government of Andhra Pradesh is going to reopen the schools from 16^th of August 2021 for the new academic year 2021-22 if infections are not increased. 

Already our teachers and staff members are   daily attending schools without children in the classrooms but they visit families and make aware children and their parents on covid appropriate behaviour, importance of vaccination and wearing masks, proper hand washing and social distancing.  And also distributing nutrition food and essential food groceries to their families. 

We humbly request you to kindly support the children and their families to give urgent food groceries and operational costs of our three schools centres for this new academic year.

Please kindly support children's books, education material, uniforms and mid-day meal programs.

Hopefully the schools will not disturb again anymore and continue with all your generous support 

Thank you so much 

with gratitude 

Dear friends 

Greetings and best wishes to you from BASS, India

Thank you so much for your kind support of the project for the last 9 years! We are sending our gratitude to you for your generous heart!

Covid 19 disturbed allot in the lives of everyone including children also and all the schools closed from March 2020.

But fortunately, covid expansion is reduced in in December 2020, therefore covid lockdowns and social moving restrictions are removed  in India and reopened schools including our project schools in three locations also started from the first week of January 2021.

We have started our three schools after 10 months of covid restrictions at Swarna Bharathi Nagar, Lingyapalem and Dasari Palem slums with covid prevention methods. Total 150 children are benefiting through this project in three locations. Classrooms also provided for 20 children only as per covid prevention and maintained social distancing and wearing face masks. 

We also distributed the educational material and writing material to the children along with face masks and sanitizers.  As usually mid-day meal also serving to the children with  nutritional values food items like eggs, pulses and leaf curries.   

Our teachers also take good care of children and guide them to protect and fight with corona by applying covid prevention methods. The academic year 2020-21 will be  finished by June 2021  with a short  academic year.  We are successfully facilitating the primary and upper primary education to the children effectively with our qualified teachers and supporting  team.

Children and their parents from the  three slum locations are very happy that their children are going back to school after a long gap of covid lockdown.  

Still the daily wage works have not started, and many children's families are struggling to get  adequate income for their families. 

Ubfortunaely the second wave of Coronavirus   is again affecting the people in Guntur and everywhere India currenly. Again every day at least 600 covid positive cases are registering in Guntur district.   Until today 13-04 2021 Total 83083 covid positives cases registered and in which 3246 active cases are in treatment at hospitals and home isolation in Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India 

But our schools are continuing to operate with covid prevention measures.  We are distributing essential food groceries and sanitary kits to children and needy families in our three slums monthly. We are also sensitising and educating the children and their parents on covid prevention methods through household visits and individual counselling with our volunteers and staff. 

At present we are worried that the second wave of covid expansion is fastly  growing  day by day and expecting new lockdowns are public restrictions that may be instructed by the government any day. 

Therefore, we humbly request you to kindly support this project again with a donation to facilitate education and care for the slum children with a best nutrition meal every day and distribute sanitary kits and essential food ration kits to their families to survive in this unfortunate pandemic times. 

Please donate again and sign up for a monthly donation to this project and save the lives of children. 

Sincerely with gratitude