Support for Trithva on an ongoing/regular basis | Akashaparavakal

We were shocked and saddened when the folks at Trithva Ashrama (friends and birds of the air)  mentioned that there were days when they ran out of all the supplies and managed with little rice that was left over (keep in mind that they 40-45 women inmates and most of them are mentally ill).

Covered partition/room on the terrace for candle making - Akashaparavakal (Friends and Birds of the Air)

While we started the Grill work to cover the terrace of Tritva Ashram (Friends and birds of the air aka Akashaparavakal) , we were also thinking of different ways to make them self sufficient...when I discussed that with them, they said it would be good if we can create a small covered partition/room on the terrace so that they can start making candles sitting there.

Grill/Mesh to cover the terrace for Akasha Paravakal (Friends and Birds of the Air)

Sorry for the delay in sending these, actually the grill/mesh work that we did on the Ashram's terrace got completed only couple of weeks back. As I had mentioned earlier , the only open space (and the only place they get some sunlight and air)  that they have in women's ashram (it's a house with 45 people !!) is their terrace and they are not able to let the women inmates use it as there are cases where some of them jumped from there (these are mentally ill women) and there are cases where they threw things down from the terrace.

2.3 Lakhs raised | Plans for Friends and birds of the air (Updated on June 07th)

We have raised close to 2.3 L now (50k from our fund and rest from outside).... I had taken my friend Praveen and his family, when we went to the ashrmam last week and he is also actively involved now...

These are the specific ares where we are trying to help and this is how we have split it as of now between our group and his...

Friends and the Birds of the Air | Fund raising request for 'Akasaparavakalude koottukar'

Jisso had called me couple of weeks back and told me to visit this institute by name 'Akasha paravakal" when he came to know about the financial struggle that they are going through to make the ends meet . It's a place where the mentally ill street wanderers are picked up from the streets, 'the children'  as they are referred here, are adopted, bathed and groomed lovingly.

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.

 

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.