Less Privileged Elders Need Care & Meal Support

Dear Donor/ supporter !

CHHASE, our staff and our community celebrate the “ PONGAL FESTIVAL”. A festival of thanks giving. Due to COVID-19, this year it is Gloomy.

According to tradition, the festival marks the end of winter solstice, and the start of the sun's six-month-long journey northwards when the sun enters the zodiac Makara (Capricorn). The festival is named after the ceremonial "Pongal", which means "to boil, overflow" and refers to the traditional dish prepared from the new harvest of rice boiled in milk with jaggery (raw sugar). To mark the festival, the pongal sweet dish is prepared, first offered to the gods and goddesses (goddess Pongal), followed sometimes with an offering to cows, and then shared by the family. Festive celebrations include decorating cows and their horns, ritual bathing and processions. It is traditionally an occasion for decorating rice-powder based Kolam artworks, offering prayers in the home, temples, getting together with family and friends, and exchanging gifts to renew social bonds of solidarity.

Pongal is one of the most important festivals celebrated by Tamil people in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka,Andhra Pradesh,Telengana and puducherry in India.It is also a major Tamil festival in Srilanka. It is observed by the Tamil diaspora worldwide, including those in Malaysia, Mauritius,South Africa, Singapore,United states,United kingdom and Canada. 

The festival's most significant practice is the preparation of the traditional "pongal" dish. It utilizes freshly harvested rice, and is prepared by boiling it in milk and raw cane sugar (jaggery). Sometimes additional ingredients are added to the sweet dish, such as: Cardamom, raisins, Green gram and cashew nuts. Other ingredients include coconut and ghee.

Bhogi Pongal

The Pongal festival begins on the day called Bhogi Pongal, and it marks the last day of the Tamil month Marghazi. On this day people discard old belongings and celebrate new possessions. The people assemble and light a bonfire in order to burn the heaps of discards. Houses are cleaned, painted and decorated to give a festive look. The horns of oxen and buffaloes are painted in villages. New clothes are worn to mark the start of the festival. The deity of the day is Indra-the god of rains, to whom prayers are offered, with thanks and hopes for plentiful rains in the year ahead.

Surya Pongal

Surya Pongal – also called Suryan Pongal or Perum Pongal – is the second and main festive day, and is dedicated to the Hindu god Surya.It is the first day of the Tamil calendar month Tai, and coincides with Makara Sankaranthi- a winter harvest festival celebrated throughout India. The day marks the start of the Uttarayana. When the sun enters the 10th house of the zodiac Makara (Capricorn). The day is celebrated with family and friends, with the Pongal dish prepared in a traditional earthen pot in an open space in the view of the sun. The pot is typically decorated by tying a turmeric plant or flower garland, and near the cooking stove are placed two or more tall fresh sugarcane stalks.

Mattu Pongal

Mattu Pongal is celebrated the day after Surya Pongal. Mattu refers to "cow, bullock, cattle", and Tamil Hindus regard cattle as sources of wealth for providing dairy products, fertilizer, transportation and agricultural aid. On Mattu Pongal, cattle are decorated – sometimes with flower garlands or painted horns, they are offered bananas, a special meal and worshipped. Some decorate their cows with manjalthanni and oil. Shikakai apply kungumam to their foreheads, paint their horns, and feed them a mixture of venn pongal, jaggery, honey, banana and other fruits. Others bathe their cattle and prostrate before them with words of thanks for the help with the harvest.

Kanum Pongal

Kanum Pongal, sometimes called the Kanu Pongal, the fourth day of the festival, marks the end of Pongal festivities for the year. The word kanum (kaanum) in this context means "to visit." Many families hold reunions on this day. Communities organize social events to strengthen mutual bonds. Villagers cut and consume farm fresh sugarcane during social gatherings. Relatives, friends and neighbour’s visit to greet, while youngsters go out to meet seniors among the relatives and neighborhoods to pay respects and seek blessings, while some elders give the visiting children some pocket change as a gift.

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Best Wishes,
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Dear Donor/ supporter !

CHHASE & our staff Wish you all long live, happy and healthy. Wish you “HAPPY New year-2021” to a wonderful person like you. May this special day of yours be filled with love and joy. HAPPY “NEW YEAR” and many more returns of the day ! Kindly ensure wearing mask, gloves and keeping social distance. I am sure you’ll have a Corona free “ HAPPY NEW YEAR”!.

CHHASE Achievements:

All our services are provided free of cost to the beneficiaries. Since its inception 19 years ago, CHHASE has eradicated child labor in 42 villages of Thiruvallur district. We have educated and enhanced education of 13500+under privileged & tribal children, given shelter with dignity to 57+ destitute elders & 78 neglected elders are provided with monthly groceries at their door step monthly. CHHASE provided vocational skills and facilitated employment for more than 12300+ rural youth & poor women and planted 1.65 lakh trees. We received DOCTOR OF SOCIAL WORKS awarded by INTERNATIONAL PEACE UNIVERSITY ,GERMANY, STAR ACHIEVERS and THE PEAKS AWARD by NATIONAL INTEGRITY CULTURAL ACADEMY and JANA SEVA AWARD by JANA PATRIKAI.

During the last 19 years, CHHASE has also worked directly on relief and rehabilitation for sequences of disasters such as the monsoon floods in parts of India.

During COVID-19 relief, we have Provided Food Rations and safety kits for 12000 very poor families & wage workers (below poverty line) in Tamil Nadu State.

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We have to stand firmly against corona virus to protect our country & entire world from it.

We would love to hear your feedback, comments & Suggestion on our program. Best Wishes,
Team CHHASE India.....

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CHHASE & our staff Wish you advance HAPPY “X MAS” to a wonderful person like you. May this special day of yours be filled with love and joy. HAPPY “X MAS” and many more returns of the day ! Kindly ensure wearing mask, gloves and keeping social distance. I am sure you’ll have a Corona free “ X MAS”!.

Elders care during pandemic

There is no hiding it, 2020- A year to forget. Almost all organizations, children, poor women, elders, work force and businesses has been adversely affected and CHHASE is no exception. But with your generous support, we have overcome the difficulties and our elders are safe and healthy. You made big impact on our neglected elders lives.

Arrangement of online class

We all know and we have experienced the results of COVID-19 lockdowns. Our education program to under privileged were postponed and their schools were lock down. Apart from their education, we ensured the children safety from spreading COVID-19. With donors generous contributions and volunteers support, we arranged mobile phones and old laptop’s for our under privileged children to attend their online classes. It was a huge task. Collecting old phones and laptop’s and repairing them and distributing to children took very long time and we achieved with the help of our volunteers. Now the children education is going on without any struggle. We thank you and our volunteers for helping our children education.

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We have to stand firmly against corona virus to protect our country & entire world from it.

We would love to hear your feedback, comments & Suggestion on our program.

Best Wishes,
Team CHHASE India.....

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CHHASE  & our neglected elders, hope you and your family stay safe and healthy. CHHASE wish you “SAFE AND HAPPY THANKS GIVING”

We at CHHASE thanking you for your generous donation to provide food to our neglected elders. Without Your support, it was not possible for us to provide food to our neglected eldersand now they are leading a healthy, secure and safe life. You made big impact on our neglected elders  lives. This program helped us to be best non profi and transparent. In recent COVID-19 time, With generous supporters like you,  we are standing with our community and doing relief to our children, their parents and informal sector workers.

We are happily informing you that we have earned GuideStar’s 2020 Platinum Seal of Transparency, the highest level of recognition offered by GuideStar, the India’s largest source of nonprofit information. 

Also we have earnedGreatNonprofits Top-Rated badge.  You too can start today by posting a review and share your stories about our projects. Your review can gain more exposure and trust with current and potential donors, volunteers and all supporters. 

With generous contribution from donor’s like you, we have distributed Rice, dhall, cooking oil .atta, suji, condiments, soap, mask, gloves and sanitizers to 1680 families, who are worst hit by COVID-19 lockdowns. we have also provided ration kits to 200 orphaned children guardian to look after well the children. This is a timely support to informal sector workers to save them from hunger.

In this difficult situation, we are standing with our Neglected elders, children and community. So far more than 30000 cloth-made Re-usable safety masks have been made and distributed in different urban and rural areas.

With the help of donor’s like you, through community kitchens, we have so far provided 175000+ Meals to poor wage workers, agricultural labors, children and lonely elders and have to continue till the end of spreading of COVID-19. This provision play key role to stop the starvation and give confidence that there is someone to help them in critical COVID-19 crisis. 

CHHASE Non profit is still running  ''Livelihood program to COVID-19 Affected Families'' , who lost their earnings due to COVID-19 lockdowns. With our trainings, they can restart their livelihood. 

We have to stand firmly against corona virus to protect our country & entire world from it.

We would love to hear your feedback, comments & Suggestion on our program. Best Wishes,
Team CHHASE India.....

Dear Donor/ supporter !

CHHASE hope you and your family stay safe and healthy.

First of all, We at CHHASE thanking you for your generous donation to help informal wage workers and happy to earn 2 badges for our transparency and devoted service.

We are happily informing you that we have earned GuideStar’s 2020 Platinum Seal of Transparency, the highest level of recognition offered by GuideStar, the India’s largest source of nonprofit information. 

Also we have earned GreatNonprofits Top-Rated badge.  You too can start today by posting a review and share your stories about our projects. Your review can gain more exposure and trust with current and potential donors, volunteers and all supporters. 

At the beginning of lockdown, Rukmini Devi ( name changed), who worked as house keeper for several households, found herself with extra income and her husband who was caught between jobs as a Rickshaw puller. The two earned enough to afford fruit in their diet, especially bananas and apples for their nine year old daughter and for their 7 year old son.

Now, despite the completion of all the stages of unlocking, the young couple are still without any real work and living on hand-outs and meals of watery dal and rice. This is a story that is being repeated - with various versions and combinations - tens of millions of times across India, the basic tale being of chronic hunger.

Those who live with chronic hunger also follow a common pattern of food deprivation. First, like Rukmini Devi’s (Name changed) family, they cut out the nutritious components from their diets like fruit, milk, eggs, meat etc as they become unaffordable. After quality, next they reduce the quantity of food on their plates, then the number of meals per day.

Even before coronavirus ravaged our economy, hunger was the #1 cause of death in India with 7,000 Indians dying of it every single day. Now the numbers have become unthinkable - ironic in a country which is one of the largest food producers in the world.

Just Rs.500 will feed a hungry family for a week or Rs.2,000 for a whole month.

With your generous contribution, we have distributed Rice, dhall, cooking oil .atta, suji, condiments, soap, mask, gloves and sanitizers to 1680 families, who are worst hit by COVID-19 lockdowns. we have also provided ration kits to 200 orphaned children guardian to look after well the children. This is a timely support to informal sector workers to save them from hunger.

In this difficult situation, we are standing with our Neglected elders, children and community. So far more than 30000 cloth-made Re-usable safety masks have been made and distributed in different urban and rural areas.

With the help of your support, through community kitchens, we have so far provided 175000+ Meals to poor wage workers, agricultural labors, children and lonely elders and have to continue till the end of spreading of COVID-19. This provision play key role to stop the starvation and give confidence that there is someone to help them in critical COVID-19 crisis. 

CHHASE Non profit is still running ''Livelihood program to COVID-19 Affected Families'' , who lost their earnings due to COVID-19 lockdowns. With our trainings, they can restart their livelihood. 

We have to stand firmly against corona virus to protect our country & entire world from it.

We would love to hear your feedback, comments & Suggestion on our program. Best Wishes,
Team CHHASE India.....

Note: At this Hard time The CHHASE India's Main focus is on COVID-19 Relief Campaign.......