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 New Delhi, India. Homeless people living on the streets of the city with no roof suffers massive freezing winter breeze without adequate woolens and protection. This movement spreads to the people living in the slums of Northern Delhi.
Challenge: Every year for a period of four months beginning from December to March the temperature goes 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 started following the death of a young girl in the night from the cold in her simple slum area dwelling and the appeal was started in the Hope this would never happen again in the slum areas and communities in which we work.
Working closely with the community leaders and health workers we have been able to identify families and children in other regions of the city and this time we are extending our operations in the slums of West Delhi which includes slums of areas like Raghubir Nagar, Kirti Nagar Railway line to outface the hardships of winters.
This appeal is a response to an annual need and is humanitarian in nature. However over the past 1 year we have being distributing blankets and woolens cloths. This year we are trying to reach out more slums by building association with organizations working in similar activities like 'GOONJ' to desperately poor children, saving great distress and even lives.
