Dear Friends,
I wanted to bring to your attention the situation that is taking place in India and especially in the rural parts of the country here. The COVID-19 outbreak has impacted the entire world. India is also grappling with its spread and the preventive measure of sudden lock-down has impacted the lives of thousands of people especially the poor, daily wage workers, migrants, street vendors and grassroots workers etc. Many families are either stranded in cities and towns where they have no work and no place to go or are making their way back to their hometowns. Many are camping at railway stations and bus stops, somehow coping up, without enough food or shelter and they are still in a situation where they are exposed to the virus.
While the government has made provisions for shelter and food for some, more efforts are needed to support the soaring number families who rely on their daily earnings in order to make daily survival and do not have any savings they can lean on. They do not have any other support system to help them in these dire times. Most of them do not even have money to purchase protective gear like masks or sanitizers or even basic things like soap to help protect themselves. Until the lock-down gets over, whatever resources these poor families may have saved, may get exhausted and they will not have anything to help them survive in the coming days.
We believe that we have been called by God for such a time as this, to help the poor, not only to pray for our nation but also to act in generous ways so that the poor, needy and marginalized will be cared for. I would like to appeal to you personally to strengthen our hands with your much needed support that can help take care of another 1200-1300 families in the villages.
We are looking to provide a relief kit that is able to keep a family fed for a month:
• Ration kits, amounting to $50 each consisting of: 10 kg Rice, 2 kg Pulses, 2 litres oil, 1 kg salt, 2 kg sugar, 500 gm Tea leaves, 1 kg milk powder, masks, sanitary napkins, biscuit packets and 5 bars of soap.
• In selected cases such as tribal areas, where our team cannot distribute at the moment, we will be distributing cash support to the beneficiaries.
Would you please consider joining us in fund raising for this cause? Together we can be the hands and feet of Jesus to the least of these.
We look forward to your support in this endeavor to help the people that are going to be most affected.
Send your donation to Name: Ernest ThathapudiBank A/c: 036510100069684Bank Name: Union Bank of India Branch Name: Moberlipeta branchIFSC : UBIN0803651SWIFT CODE: UBININBBBHIMICR CODE: 533911303
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