HELP A POOR CHILD

by childvisionindia @ 2008-08-03 – 17:49:09

Below are photos and a little bit about some very poor kids who are deserving of your help. We would like to do alot for them. We would like to give them and their families a square meal each day, give them and their families a health check up at least once a month, provide them with basic school stuff books, pencils, pens, text books etc.

The children are desperately in need of our help. We would love to have tutors to come along in the evenings to our Centre and help these kids with their studies and then give them an evening meal before they go home.

How much would this cost ? £ 20.00 or $ 35.00 US each month (sterling)would be quite helpful. Of course anything would be helpful, even a dollar would be welcome as it would provide one meal for a family of three.

If you cannot help, will you ask someone ? Anyone. The need is great.

ABHIJIT CHAKRABORTY

by childvisionindia @ 2008-08-03 – 17:39:30

Abhijit is aged 14 years. His family exists on the one meal a day they receive at our feeding centre.

MANIK SAHA

by childvisionindia @ 2008-08-03 – 17:37:31

Manik is aged ten years. His family is extremely poor. The one meal they receive at our feeding centre each day is the only meal of the day for this poor family.

BHASKAR DEBNATH

by childvisionindia @ 2008-08-03 – 17:34:05

Bhaskar is a lirrle seven yr old boy. His family survives on just one meal day which is provided at our feeding centre.

ANTARA SENGUPTA

by childvisionindia @ 2008-08-03 – 17:31:37

Antara is just ten years old. Her family exist on one meal provided daily at our feeding centre.

SRABANI BHAKTA

by childvisionindia @ 2008-08-03 – 17:29:52

SRABANI BHAKTA is just seven yrs old. Her family is very poor. They get one square meal a day from our feeding centre.

KAJAL DEY

by childvisionindia @ 2008-08-03 – 17:25:51

Kajal is a little ten year old girl. Her family is very poor. Her parents visit the our centre each day for their one meal a day.

LUNCH FOR THE POOR

by childvisionindia @ 2008-08-03 – 11:30:55

Each day at about 1pm Indian time, about 40 people, the poorest of the poor are given a hot meal, freshly cooked each day. The meal is prepared each day from donated food. The market stall holders in front of the Club house are very supportive and most of the vegetables and staple items come from them each day.

The lunch feeding program is also supported by donations from well wishers.

THE WORK WE DO

by childvisionindia @ 2007-09-14 – 21:50:20

The Katagunj Recreation Club at Katagunj, Gayeshpur (outer Calcutta) does an excellent job of feeding about 30 people a day. The people helped are the poorest of the poor : handicapped, widows, the homeless and the orphans. We at Child Vision India do our bit to raise donations and awareness of the good work done by the Club members.

HELP A POOR CHILD IN BENGAL

by childvisionindia @ 2005-09-30 – 01:43:12

We in the West have so much even to throw away, that it hardly bothers us that there are starving children somewhere.

CHILD VISION INDIA will try to bring attention to the poor child in India. And help find people who would be generous to help these poor children with schooling, health, food and shelter.

This is a story from West Bengal :

(FROM THE TELEGRAPH,(NEWSPAPER) CALCUTTA : Sept.30, 2005)
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REFUSED ONE RUPEE, GIRLS COMMITS SUICIDE
OUR CORRESPONDENT
Behrampore, Sept. 23: A schoolgirl took her own life in a village near here today after her mother failed to provide her a rupee to buy tiffin.

The Class V student of Ghoshpara Sarbapalli Vidyaniketan was also a Sania, Sania Khatun. But at Paraspur village in Jalangi, 250 km from Calcutta, life was very different from her illustrious namesake’s.

The Sania here wanted to have some muri (puffed rice) at school today, but Jainab Bewar, a widow who works as a maid, did not even have that.

Sania did not usually carry lunch to school. But yesterday, she saw some of her classmates having muri and telebhaja (oil cakes) and the temptation was too much.

Jainab scolded her daughter and left for work this morning. When she returned, Sania was hanging from the ceiling at the end of one of her saris.

Jainab said: “I did not give her the money as I did not have it. I snapped at her when she insisted on it.”

Most afternoons, Sania ate whatever little her mother managed to bring home from the houses where she worked.

Their house had been wa- shed away by a flood over a month ago and with four sons and a daughter, Jainab had been living in a makeshift hut.

Two of her sons work as daily wagers, but they have no regular employment. Jainab and her sons together never earned over Rs 600 a month. Sania was the youngest of three daughters. Her sisters, aged 24 and 15, have been married off.

Rabin Deb, the Left Front chief whip, said: “Such poverty is unheard of in Bengal.” What Deb and many leaders have not heard of is everyday reality for the likes of Jainab.

District superintendent of police Niraj Kumar Singh said: “It is most unfortunate.”

A psychoanalyst said extreme poverty coupled with her mother’s denial drove Sania to death. “She had already been pushed to the brink. Her mother acted as the trigger.”