Distributing Milk to 1000 Slum Children

 

Summary

Every day, we provide a glass of milk to each of the 1000 kids attending Care & Share Charitable Trust's literacy centers in five of Vijayawada's poorest slums. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Care&Share works in the city of Vijayawada, a city of 1.2 million in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Approximately 30% of the population are amassed in sprawling urban slums sharing a total lack of hygiene, drinking water, and sanitation. In these slums, thousands of children - all too often illiterate, sick, and malnourished- live in utter neglect. Care&Share works in five slums to provide nutrition, medical care, and basic literacy to around 1000 children.

Activities

To offset some of the disastrous effects of malnutrition, Care&Share provides every child attending our literacy centers with a glass of milk per day. We distribute 32 gallons of milk every day; for a total cost of $25000 a year.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $4,739
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $70,261
Total Funding Goal: $75,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Care&Share's mission is to give children an education and help them bloom into healthy, self-reliant individuals. In Vijayawada's ghastly slums, that goal cannot be accomplished without first attending to the kids' most basic nutritional needs.

Project Message

The milk distribution program gives these children a chance to fight another day. It is the first step toward giving them a semblance of a normal childhood.
- Noel Harper, Chairman and Founder, Care&Share Charitable Trust

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Federico Ferrara,
President, Care&Share USA, Inc.
64 Foster Street
Brighton, MA 02135
India
6179878181
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Care & Share USA, Inc.
1426 Kings Wood Rd
Eagan, MN 55122
United States
651-236-0108
http://www.careshareindia.org

Learn more about Care & Share USA, Inc. and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Health.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 13, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 28, 2008.

Latest Update from the Field

Thanks for your support!

By Federico Ferrara - President, Care & Share USA, inc., August 13, 2008 03:46 PM

Thanks in part to the generous support received from donors through GlobalGiving, over the past several months Care&Share has successfully continued to distribute milk to the small children attending literacy centers in five poverty-stricken slums in Vijayawada.

Because of the additional donations we have received via GlobalGiving, Care&Share has expanded the milk distribution project to include approximately 100 newborn babies and their mothers in the slums of Kandrika and Rajarajeswari. This is part of our ongoing effort to actually prevent disease and malnutrition in babies and toddlers as opposed to simply confronting its effects when the kids reach the age at which they would generally show up at our literacy centers.

Once again, thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your generous support!

PS: The heavy rains that have battered Andhra Pradesh over the past two weeks have made the situation in these slums ever more dramatic. Kandrika and Rajarajeswari themselves are presently completely underwater.
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