Feed Nomadic Children to Help them Fight the Pandemic

The pandemic has hit the poor communities and there children with hunger and infection in rural districts of Tamil Nadu. Vanavil Trust is supporting 642 such children from the nomadic communities by providing them nutritious supplies 6-days a week and also monitoring the health of these children. Your contribution of ₹1,500 will help feed a nomadic child with nutritive snacks for a year.

Nomadic children are at the bottom of the most affected in this pandemic. The communities were poor even before Covid19 and the pandemic has rendered them even more impoverished and their constant fight is with hunger and the possibility of infection. Their parents are petty vendors and in the last 17 months have been unable to eke a living due to the lockdown and fear of infection. The most important meal the children access has been denied due to the School closure.

We are providing a nutritive snack every day for six days a week for 642 children from Nomadic Communities. With 1500 rupees you can support this much needed nutritional support. The children get boiled chickpeas, pounded rice with jaggery, Boiled eggs, Green gram sundal and biscuits every evening. Along with the Snack our community volunteers will teach the kids about sanitation protocols and engage them with fun educational activities. We also monitor the kids for covid symptoms ahead of the snack distribution.

The primary imapct is that the nutrition provided will add to the kids food intake. We choose protein and iron rich food items to fill the dietary gaps and help the kids to remain healthy to fight the covid infection. The support will also work towards helping the kids in being monitored for symptoms and making them aware of the measures to avoid possible infections.