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AIFT Updates

Dear Donors, COVID-19 affected children support program updates: We have now completed the first round of support to all the 5 districts Covid Orphaned and single parent children’s covering following activities: Family situation surveys, health assessment, nutrition support kit, benefit entitlement ennoblement and education kit support activities as planned. 21st and 22nd May we covered total 106+ kids in Dakshina Kannada district across all Taluks, who are still residing there. We had support and participation from BMC Hospital and Abhaya Hospital doctors and staff team. 27th/28th May we covered 155+ Covid impacted Orphaned/Single parent children in Chamarjanagara’s all Taluks. We had support and participation from District’s Child Protection Officers, Kollegal Taluk Govt Hospital’s and Kamagere Holy Cross hospital’s doctor and nurses team. 25th June we covered 135 + Covid impacted Orphaned/Single parent children in Dharwad districts, we had support and participation from District’s Child Protection Officers, DHARWAD INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES-DHARWAD doctors and staff team. 26th June, we covered 96 + Covid impacted Orphaned/Single parent children in Belgaum districts where we had support from Siddharth NetraLaya, Dr. Devagouda charitable trust and Shree Ortho & Critical care center. Chamarajanagar, Dharawad and Belagavi are the poorest districts in Karnataka and almost 70% to 90% of the families are in BPL category with either no income source or very meager income out of daily labour, beedi worker, small farmers, vegetable sellers, tailoring job and other type of work by surviving parent to support kids. 22 of the totally orphaned kids also joined the event. One of the learning’s has been to enable employment to many single mothers for Livelihood support of the family. Chamarajanagar District Child welfare committee (CWC) madam has asked our support to set up 3 centers, if we can, for skilling and help in getting orders from various corporates/hospitals/clients in Electronics soldering and wiring, focused tailoring domain and back-office work areas where they will provide work place, infrastructure etc to support these centers. We urge to all our donors that If any of you, through your connects, can help in orders from organisations as part of their corporate CSR donations to AIFT on what they may want from such centres, AIFT will enable needful quality and delivery through these centers to them. This can be a real sustainable value for the kids and mothers that we can create collectively in this initiative. Even GoK-ICPS teams have provided us excellent support centrally and on ground to reach out to these kids and vulnerable families. Based on our activities on ground along with children’s and their family’s/guardian’s feedback, we have further added a list of things that as a trust AIFT should undertake to make life better for these children and families on a sustainable basis. Two points have clearly emerged as a priority. These are: long-term good quality education for the children and some type of employment-cum-training support for the single mother on an ongoing basis, working along with DCPOs and central ICPS/Social/Women Welfare deptt. We do want to plan these activities now, as well as look at more corporate CSR donations to address these two needs working with GoK and local teams. Plans to initiate the following in next 4-5 months:

• Enable atleast 250 most vulnerable kids, good in studies, to support their educational needs on long term basis through: scholarships, school fees, mentorship, etc
• Establish self-help in partnership with social welfare office, GoK to create opportunities for widow and elderly groups to make sustainable livelihood.
• Create 2 centres for skill development and employment for youth in the following focus areas
  1. Electronics and semiconductor manufacturing
  2. Stitching and tailoring
  3. Data tagging, annotation and web scraping skills
  4. Vocational training and product development centres
  

We look forward to your support fit the above initiatives too. We once again thank you all for your continued support to us @ AIFT- Dr Anurag, Trustee Website:

Date : 26-June-2022
Venue : Belgaum
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Date : 25-June-2022
Venue : Dharwad
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Start Date : 27-May-2022
End Date : 28-May-2022
Venue : Chamarjanagara’s all Taluks: Hanur, Kollegal, Yellanduru, Chamarajnagar and Gundulpet.
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Very soon we will be sharing the annual update of our activities on this page. We are thankful as always to your great support to us. We do look forward to your suggestions, continued generous contributions and personalized Endowment fund support towards the above programs.

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