Urgent support to Bal Asha orphange during COVID

Bal Asha Trust runs a home for children found abandoned on the streets of Mumbai.  We are in urgent need of your support due to the COVID pandemic and lockdown in the city. We currently have 36 children both boys and girls from few months to 11 years living in the centre in Mahalaxmi, Mumbai.  We have 16 paramedics and caretakers who are living inside the home during the COVID lockdown to take care of children and keep them safe from the virus. 

We, at Bal Asha, have been facing difficulties since the COVID lockdown came into force in India.  We need funds as due to the lockdown and social distancing as a precaution against COVID our community donations have reduced.  We require funds to ensure we go through this period without any hardships for our projects. 

We need funds to provide nutrition and medical care (including gloves, masks and hand sanitizers) to our children and caregivers.  We have children with special needs who require continuous medicines and child care support. We need to buy  regular supplies of medicines and medical aid for the children like medical tests, hospital admission charges, conveyances to hospital, optics and OPD charges.  This will now include masks, hand sanitizers and gloves for COVID protection. 

We need funds to buy groceries, milk, vegetables etc for children's nutritional needs.

The funds will help us to run give our children important support during this COVID crisis. As this is a humanitarian crisis which is affecting our vulnerable children living in communities we plan to use part of the funds to give children and families Nutritional Support.