Project : Swadhar Home for Children
From: David Purviance <David@worldschildren.org>
Date: March 29, 2016 at 10:45:38 AM PDT
To: Munish Sharma <munisharma@gmail.com>
Subject: Info on your last project
Hi Munish,
In 2014 the Beaverton Cricket Club raised $2,540 to help pay for a solar photovoltaic system for the Swadhar Home for Children in Tenali, Andhra Pradesh. They needed this because the home is in a rural area and there had been violent incidents with gangs of men preying on women in that area. The backup solar system provided lights at night both for the girls’ protection and so they could study when the local power grid went down, which it did on a daily basis.
Swadhar Home for Children is a sanctuary for girls and women and they take whoever needs shelter. They currently have 122 girls and young women. They have a few girls who are HIV-positive, many who were street kids, abandoned children, mentally disturbed girls and women, a few physically challenged girls, rescued women who had been trafficked, widowed child brides, etc. They have one teenager who was forced by her parents into marriage as a child bride, gave birth to a daughter and then her much older husband suddenly died, leaving her with a new baby and no home. A social worker found her and her baby living on the street and brought them to Swadhar. She attends school each day and the women in the vocational program care for her baby during the daytime while she is gone.
Some of the older girls aren't attending school because they never went to school and arrived at Swadhar late in their childhood and lack the academic skill to be successful in school. For those girls, the in-house vocational training program will help them become self-sufficient young women.
I’ve attached five photos and a letter of thanks from Sister Nirmala Allam, the head administrator of Swadhar. It may be self-evident what the photos depict, but I’ll describe them anyway.
One photo shows the outside of the three-story building. Another shows workers installing the photovoltaic panels on the roof of the orphanage. Another shows some of the girls next to the newly installed solar panels. Another is of the battery pack inside the building which stores the charge. And the final photo is the Swadhar girls thanking the Beaverton Cricket Club for improving their lives.
If you have any more questions, just shoot me an email Munish and I’ll reply pretty quickly. I’d still like to meet with you at some point and leave you with some information about another project we hope the club will want to support. Once we’ve picked a date and location, I’ll notify Amisha and see if she can join us. Thanks for your help.
All the best,
David
Date: March 29, 2016 at 10:45:38 AM PDT
To: Munish Sharma <munisharma@gmail.com>
Subject: Info on your last project
Hi Munish,
In 2014 the Beaverton Cricket Club raised $2,540 to help pay for a solar photovoltaic system for the Swadhar Home for Children in Tenali, Andhra Pradesh. They needed this because the home is in a rural area and there had been violent incidents with gangs of men preying on women in that area. The backup solar system provided lights at night both for the girls’ protection and so they could study when the local power grid went down, which it did on a daily basis.
Swadhar Home for Children is a sanctuary for girls and women and they take whoever needs shelter. They currently have 122 girls and young women. They have a few girls who are HIV-positive, many who were street kids, abandoned children, mentally disturbed girls and women, a few physically challenged girls, rescued women who had been trafficked, widowed child brides, etc. They have one teenager who was forced by her parents into marriage as a child bride, gave birth to a daughter and then her much older husband suddenly died, leaving her with a new baby and no home. A social worker found her and her baby living on the street and brought them to Swadhar. She attends school each day and the women in the vocational program care for her baby during the daytime while she is gone.
Some of the older girls aren't attending school because they never went to school and arrived at Swadhar late in their childhood and lack the academic skill to be successful in school. For those girls, the in-house vocational training program will help them become self-sufficient young women.
I’ve attached five photos and a letter of thanks from Sister Nirmala Allam, the head administrator of Swadhar. It may be self-evident what the photos depict, but I’ll describe them anyway.
One photo shows the outside of the three-story building. Another shows workers installing the photovoltaic panels on the roof of the orphanage. Another shows some of the girls next to the newly installed solar panels. Another is of the battery pack inside the building which stores the charge. And the final photo is the Swadhar girls thanking the Beaverton Cricket Club for improving their lives.
If you have any more questions, just shoot me an email Munish and I’ll reply pretty quickly. I’d still like to meet with you at some point and leave you with some information about another project we hope the club will want to support. Once we’ve picked a date and location, I’ll notify Amisha and see if she can join us. Thanks for your help.
All the best,
David
