Educate After-School Downtrodden Children in India

Dear Patrons,

 

We all express our warm greetings to you from Health Education Adoption Rehabilitation Development Society (HEARDS) - India!

 

I hope this report finds you and your family well. Until March 21 our rehabilitation centre was running successfully. However, as COVID-19pandemic spreads and hitting thousands of people in India the Indian Government has decided to go for a complete lockdown from March 21 until May 17, 2020. During these hard times, we also closed our rehabilitation centre because of these pandemic.

 

Within a month of COVID-19, hitting hundreds of people in Chittoor was out of work due to lockdown and all the businesses were closed. Hundreds are now out of work, facing the potential threat of sickness through COVID-19, or hunger as so many families fall into deep poverty. The livelihood of these daily wage earners has been adversely affected and due to little to no preparedness, they have no food rations for the coming days. This project provides nutritional support to 60 families of daily wage earners who reside in urban slums.

 

In order to mitigate the direct effects of the COVID-19 pandemic during the lockdown, HEARDS has decided to issue free grocery items for each family who is facing a panic situation during this lockdown.  The goal is to deliver provision items to help families in isolated communities face the quarantine and make it through the COVID19 crisis. 

 

HEARDS provides nutritional, educational, and health support to starving children and their families in the wake of this pandemic. The community is spreading awareness within each other and practicing social distancing. HEARDS is also involving parents of the children in emergency preparedness for disaster mitigation for nutrition and medical support.

 

As COVID-19 continues to spread, the future has never felt so unpredictable. These are challenging times for us all, and we hope you are in good spirits and health! Right now, we are doing everything possible to sustain daily operations and provide services to our community. While there is a lot of uncertainty, we know that we need to adapt fast to our changing reality. Now, more than ever, our community needs us.  Moreover, we need you.

 

I am hereby enclosing the picture for your kind perusal.  I am also sending you the video link on youtube for your kind perusal.

 

Thanking you,

 

With fond regards,

 

 Kuriyakose Sajan

Links:

• Free Grocery distribution by HEARDS

Dear Esteemed patrons,

Seasonal Greetings and Wish you all a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2020 by the entire Board of HEARDS Members, Staff Team and Children!

With the active support from donors like you, Health Education Adoption Rehabilitation Development Society (HEARDS) project to Education after School downtrodden children has been succeeded to the maximum extent.  We thank you for your entire support for this project and it makes a significant difference among the children and with the parents of these child laborers.

During this year, the project has achieved remarkable results.  I am hereby telling you one good case study of After School Center.  Abhi (name changed) aged 11 years coming from the slum area of Sankaraihgunta in Chittoor. Their family lives in a temporary shelter in a slum named Sankaraihgunta a slum area in Chittoor.  His father Mr. M Prakash (name changed) works in a grinding mill as a machine operator and mother Mrs. Poorna (name changed) is a manual scavenger.  His father addicted to alcohol, which made Abhi to be dropped out of school.    He has never been to school because his parents did not allow him to attend. He says that this hurts him because he would like to be educated.   However, he got dropped out of his school in Class 5 and He doesn’t know how old he is because he has been never been to school but their parents say he is about 11 years old.  He is one of many children who missed school because his parents were leading a poor life.  HEARDS staff have successfully convinced the parents of this child and taken back to our after school center.  During the initial stage, he does not have any plans for his future.  Now we can see Abhi who is brilliant in his studies coming out with excellence in all the tests conducted.  Now he has a good ambition in life and wants to join as police.  If HEARDS is not intervened in his life he might still be working in a tea shop ending his life with lots of regrets.  Happiness and dreams of the mother can be seen in his mother’s eyes regarding her son.

Such success inspires us and helps us to move forward with further determination to eradicate an evil that pulls down the real growth and progress of a nation.  And while we celebrate the success of this nature, let us look at what worked towards achieving this goal. The coordinator who relentlessly work behind these children truly understand the problems they face and closely work with the parents to broaden and change their outlook. This aspect has largely contributed to mainstreaming all the kids, along with, the dedication of the teachers, adapting and implementing new and effective methods, ideas, and suggestions, and great relationships with local Government schools.

At this outset the Board Members and Staff of HEARDS would like to take this opportunity to thank all the esteemed donors like you, many poor downtrodden children get a good education and moral support. Teachers put their effort and commitment to the growth of the after school center. This project really helps the children to get a good education and to learn good habits. In addition, it reduces Child labor, Child delinquency, improves the knowledge, skill, and potentialities, and become useful citizens of the nation.

Thanking you,