A thank you note from Snehadaan (Sneha Care Home)

Couple of hours with the children @ Snehadaan (Sneha Care Home)

Last Saturday (March 25, 2017), we bought all the items for school kits (notebooks, coloring books, geometry boxes, pencils, pens, erasers, sharpeners, crayons, pencil boxes, sketch pens, rulers etc)  required for one academic year for each of the 83 kids @ Snehadaan and handed it over to the children.  All the children in the Bangalore center are aged between 6 years and 12 years, and we got the items according to the age group. Initially we thought of creating separate kit for each kid, but then ditched that idea as shopping itself took little more than 4 hours !! We got good discounts as we bought it in bulk from Metro.

 

FInancial help for kidney transplantation | Raised 1 Lakh

We have raised 1 Lakh for this cause  (50 K from our account and 50K from Shyju's group) and they have confirmed that the money has been credited to their account.  You can find the initial details about this case here:-  http://tinyinitiative.blogspot.in/2017/02/rohan-roshan-mysore-financial-help-for.html

We had collected some additional details about both in the mean time and that's given below:

Orphanage/old age home @ Bannerghatta road

We visited a old age home/orphanage (bala yesu bhavan) from our church last Sunday and I'm trying to explore and see how we can help them further....We got the idea of school kits (that we gave to kids at snehadaan)  from this visit only...... I will keep you posted on this....

Here's some pics/video from that visit....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqbWfo9PdJs

https://goo.gl/photos/r38b48y6XkNU1zAG9

School kits for the 83 kids living with HIV @ Snehadaan (Sneha Care Home)

Dears,

Fr Jaison from Snehadhan has agreed for the proposal that we had put forward for helping the kids there.  We will buy 83 school kits (bag, books, pencil, pen, eraser etc) for the next academic year. Each kit will be worth 500 Rs (Approx). Thought it's a better idea than giving them money.

We are doing something similar for an Orphanage on Bannerghatta road from our church next week. We have few guys in church who has the Metro membership, so that we can purchase in bulk for a good deal.  I'm planning to purchase these 83 kits also along with that purchase and hand those over to Snehadhan next week itself.  Hope Bangalore guys (Sreeju, Jithu , Prasad) can me join me.

Please see the mail from Fr Jaison below:

-pulicken

Snehadaan | Financial support for HIV infected kids (Sneha Care Home)

Further to what I mentioned about Snehadaan in the earlier post,  we also discussed with them about the possibility of sponsoring a kid or may be buying them grocery for a week/month etc.  He said they normally buy in bulk from Yeswanthpur and he said we can either buy groceries and give it to them or we can give them the money and they will buy it in bulk.

He has not told anything clearly about sponsoring a particular kid. I will follow up with him on that and update this post once I get that information.

In the mean time, request you to go through the below write-up about Snehadaan and let us decide whether we should get involved.

Snehadaan | Support for solar water heating installation (Sneha Care Home)

Snehadaan is a center for providing Care and Support to the PLHIV (Kids Living with HIV) and training of health care personnel in the HIV/ AIDS care field. They are taking care of around 80+ kids in the Bangalore location itself.   

They also provides care, treatment & support for the sick, especially the marginalized sick. 

It's situated near Carmelaram (Bangalore). 

I came to know about them couple of years back when they came to our Church for fund raising by selling the candles made by the HIV infected children. I had helped them in my personal capacity at that point of time. 

We visited Snehadaan last Sunday (Feb 26, 2017).  We visited both palliative care and also saw the kids there. These kids are all HIV infected, and most of them don't have parents or/are rejected from the community. Kids in this location are from different parts of Karnataka and Tamilnadu.  They are doing an excellent job in taking care of them, giving value education and in skill development.