While we are trying to reach more and more suicide farmer families and rural area govt schools, the current corona-virus pandemic has put all of us into greater trouble. While most of us are privileged that we can afford to make our ends meet, there are daily laborers and other classes of people who have been struggling to get food safety. Team Manabhumi received requests from other NGOs to support those families that are in dire need due to lock-down.
These are the different activities going on right now under lock-down conditions.
Current need: As of now, we are planning to support for suicide farmers families from these places.
In the last 20 years, nearly 300,000 farmers have ended their lives by ingesting pesticides or by hanging themselves. Heartbreaking fact is even the pesticide the farmer bought to end his life is also from debt. If one wants to blame on long droughts, crushing debts, cursing climate, flawed govt schemes... and the list goes on and on. Or, if one wants to come forward and support there are more than hundred thousand families surviving in deep distress looking for relief. It's being long said that "Farmer is backbone of the nation", "Cultivation is the perfection of human beings" however today the reality is quite different in India, here the farmer is the one who sow the seed and gamble his survival with it.
Manabhumi organizers will directly work with local non-profit groups in the villages, surveying and assessing the victims who have not received minimum support from the government.Below is our four fold approach followed in Ananthapur, Mahabubnagar and Nalgonda districts to achieve the best results.
Ananthapur - 2015
On 22-08-2015, first relief drive was conducted to extend financial support to 15 widowers of distressed and suicide committed farmers in Ananthapur villages with a total of 1,00,000 rupees. Our team would like to convey special thanks to Kondal, Gopal and Ramji for accompanying our volunteers in visiting and verifying the families in their villages.
Nalgonda - 2015
On 14-11-2015, second relief drive was conducted with help of TCAP Portland to support 21 widowers of distressed and suicide committed farmers in Nalgonda villages with a total amount of 2,30,000 rupees. Our team would like to convey special thanks to Kondal, Isthari and Janardhan garu from Pilupu for accompanying our volunteers in visiting and verifying the families in their villages.
Mahabubnagar and Nalgonda - 2016
On 09-04-2016, third relief drive was conducted to extend financial support to 14 widowers of distressed and suicide committed farmers in Mahboobnagar and Nalgonda villages with a total of 1,23,000 rupees. Our team would like to convey special thanks to Kondal, Ramu from Gramya for accompanying our volunteers in visiting and verifying the families in their villages.
Guntur - 2017
On 07-10-2017, fourth relief drive was conducted to extend financial support to 3 widowers of distressed and suicide committed farmers in Guntur dist. Many thanks to Narasimha from Leaf group foraccompanying our volunteers in visiting and verifying the families in their villages.
Guntur Support Farmers event photos
Guntur & Nalgonda - 2018
On 28th July 2018, Manabhumi provided livelihood to two widow's of suicide committed farmers in AP & TG. Thanks to our encouraging donors. They are extremely doing good through our provided occupations. Both are earning 250 rs to 300 rs after costs per day through our established livelihood's.
1. Donation of Fruit vehicle to Venkataravamma (Lingapuram village, Amaravathi Mandal, Guntur dist, AP) earlier worked as daily labour that too in a crop season, livesin a thatched hut.
2. Interest free Loan - Milk yielding buffalo provided to Anuradha (Jai kesaram village, Choutuppal Mandal,Bhongir dist, TG) earlier worked as a labour in near by chemical factory.
Kurnool - 2019
On 14th march 2019, Manabhumi supported four suicide farmer families in kurnool. After reviewing their family conditions through Rytu swarjya Vedika and after personally visiting, our team handovered financial support directly to four families for their children education.
Vikarabad - 2019
On 19th April 2019,Manabhumi established livelihood to widow#LaxmiGodamagadda(w/of suicide farmer Narayana, Gadsingapur, Parigi,Vikarabad) by providing#milkyieldingbuffaloworth 35000 rs/ in order to generate income to clear their pending debts and ensure a sustainable income in long run.
Our Aim is to train students in those schools to participate & win awards in mandal, district, state & national levels so that their physical & mental skills will be developed along with prospects of securing sports benefits from govt in form of sports quota in their future education.
Every day students of all these schools undergo 1 hour of games period and many students participate in local competitions. Manabhumi has started conducting sports competitions every 2 months and awarding students with prizes and rewards.
In January 2017, KHEL BHARAT project is launched to promote sports in rural areas especially in govt school students to enhance their spirit of learning and leadership. The first phase of Khel Bharat project is providing the required sports kits sufficient for three years to the school students of ZPHS Kistareddipet. Also an able sports guide Mr Mahesh is appointed in one of the school for an initial period of three months which will be extended to years based on future support for this project.
Our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to InstaSmart Software Solutions who came forward to completely sponsor the first phase of KHEL BHARAT project in ZPHS Kistareddypet Govt School - an initiative driven and supported by Manabhumi Foundation from more than two years.
As part of 2017 Khel Bharat project, Manabhumi distributed sports material to total 9 schools in Srikakulam, East Godavari, Sangareddy, Warangal in two telugu states. Sports competitions are periodically being conducted in those schools with awards & rewards as encouragement.
#Khelbharat. As part of 2018 sports material support to 10 govt schools in TG & AP.
Teach India project is launched to provide assistance to students from rural areas especially in govt school students to enhance their spirit of learning and leadership. As part of this initiative, we have been conducting notebook distribution drives at various (Starting with three in 2015, Nine as of 2017) government schools (ZPHS,UPS, PS) from both the Telugu states. This helps to reduce the burden on the benefiting students' parents who work on daily wages for their livelihood. We believe that this motivates for better attendance of students and helps in reducing the school drop-outs. Along with Notebooks distribution we also provide financial awards to talented students in these govt schools.
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