This is Aaniya (7 yrs) and Aarush (10 yrs), their father is Shaalu and Mum is Jyoti - she is pregnant. Everything they own was washed away. The children are suffering from fever and boils. Dad currently has no work. We continue to give them rations to cook meals and the kids need clothes.
Here’s a quick shout out seeking your help to purchase 230 sets of desperately needed clothes for mostly children – whose families have lost everything in the recent floods.
The current state of living conditions for these kids and is miserable. The families have basically nothing, and many are facing opposition from local authorities for setting up makeshift shelters along the city streets. According to many people, the mindset is that the Dalits (the untouchables) deserve this. Many people see them as victims of their own choices and circumstances – they are scorned and pitied – there is little compassion or sympathy. Project Help India is their only source of kindness and assistance.
As you might know, our team is particularly keeping a very close eye on the children who attend our education centres (and their families). There are many more vulnerable people, some of whom we have given emergency rations – but sadly we cannot help everyone.
Our students are mostly back at school, and many of the parents are getting back to their daily means of income. But very day they must make ends meet to survive.
Our urgent need is for $1200 to buy clothes for kids
We are asking many local people for donations of used clothing we must still buy some new items. All up, the total donations required is approximately $1200AUD. Your donation is tax deductible.
This is Pooja (below), mother of a 4 month baby with fever and Priyanshu (3 yrs) who is so malnourished he cannot walk because of weakness. This family is in such a bad way that we have given them mattresses, sheets, clothes, nappies and baby products. Having lost everything, they now live in a rented tin shed room with a mud roof that leaks in the rain.
Below is Priyanshu - a student of our city Centre. His family lost their house and everything in the floods. Priyanshu tells us that at 5am he woke to find a raging river flowing through his house. He could only save himself. He is one of nine children in the family who all miraculously were found. Now they are refugees, displaced and living on the street. When our team found the family they were huddled together, crying, grief stricken, wet, cold and hungry. Immediately, we gave them milk, bread and simple food items. Dad is a vegetable seller is he is thankfully back at work. We hope to give the children new clothes and we will continue to monitor their needs.
Our Director, Amit Samuel with Priyanshu and his mother 2 weeks ago just after the floods.