Protect & Care Child Labor in Brick Kilns in India

Dear Friends 

Many greetings and best wishes  to you from BASS India 

Thank you so much for your support to this project continuously  

BASS is started the fourth batch works site school for seasonal migrated families at brick industries Choutuppal area from second week of January 2020. 

This year also 350 families along with more than 120 children are migrated from Odisha state to work in 12 brick industries at Pedakonduru village  of Choutuappal, Yadadri District  for a period of 6 months from January to June 2020

As usual with the interference of Child welfare department and police department from Yadadri district  were caught the child labour and sent to local schools and BASS worksite school for elder children. 

BASS staff Mrs Kalavathi, Mrs Knathamma along with the Vice President of BASS Mrs Sathya Haveela effectively organizing worksite school and provide skills training with   primary education to 40 children. And also providing mid day meal  the children. 

Unfortunately the Covid 19 is interrupted in the lives of every one includes  the seasonal migrated families  and their children also in this area and government  instructed strict lockdown from March 22nd 2020  and extended up to the end of May 2020. 

Therefore all  migrated families and their children to locked down  without works as well as no food and unable to go back to their families.  All the children are at high risk of starvation.  

At this situation BASS is also distributed ration kits and vegetables to 350 families  with our limited resources .  All the seasonal migrated families living very depressive in their small huts without works and no food. 

We did not receved any dontaiosn for this project for a long time,   I humbly requesting you to kindly  consider to make a new donation to 350 families to get more essential food supplies during this covid lockdown days. 

Thank you so much with gratitude