2nd Edition, May 2020 India Tribal Care Trust Official Newsletter ITCT C* Newsletter ITCT Carries Oout Corona Pandemic Relief Works Inside: Across Six States of India Know the tribe • P2 In May, we from Indian Tribal Care Trust went to many Adopting a tribal different states of India to help the people who were in need. family • P3 During our relief work in the previous month, we understood the importance of sharing essential items. This realization from Celebrating special our end has changed our mindset completely. All these days, occasions • P4 we were continually focussing on the education and health of Indian tribal communities. But, due to the emergency, we have Message from to take care of the tribals in terms of food first. This type of Chairman • P5 approach in the relief works has made all of us from Indian Tribal Care Trust more considerate about helping the Indian Donor List • P6 tribal communities. Now, we are more active than ever for helping these communities from our end. (continued to..2 Artwork outside the house of a Know The Bhils – The Bhil tribe Largest Tribe In India There are many tribal communities in Indian soil. Out of them, the Bhil community is the largest. They are living in India for many years. The community has this name from the local language word called 'Billu.' The meaning of this word is the bow. Moreover, this tribe was great hunters at some point. The Bhil women wear typical saris while men wear long shirts with frock and pajama. They have a good awareness of their local geography. Most of them today are farmers and are also skilled sculptors. They are present in many parts of India, namely Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, etc. Bhili is the language widely spoken in its geographic distribution by the Bhil tribe of India. The essential foods Bhils grow in their limited fields are maize, cabbage, garlic, onion, and chili. One of the traditions that they have is common tattooing practice. They have strong and robust confidence in superstition for their physical, emotional, and psychological therapies. The traditional Rajasthani folk dance Ghoomar originated from this Bhil tribe. A Bhil woman in tradiitional dress .....continued from Page 1) The government of India had set up multiple relief camps this month. But, those campaigns were only providing support to the people who had a ration card. This type of assistance from the government bodies had left the lives of most tribal communities of India in danger. These tribal people before this pandemic had no connection with the world. They were living in the forest. After assessing all these situations on the ground level, Indian Tribal Care Trust started giving the cooked food and other food rations to the tribes of six Indian states. These states include Andhra Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha, and Tripura. From all these states, we sent out our teams to various districts. Prakasam and Vishakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh, Hailakandi district in Assam, Dhupguri in Jalpaiguri district, Falakata in Alipurduar district, Ajodhya Hill & Sabar Pally in Purulia of West Bengal, Ambassa, Dhalai District, Anandabazar in Tripura, Borio in Sahibganj district of Jharkhand and Kandhamal & Kalahandi district in Odisha. page 2 copyright itct 2020 Picture of tribal lady with her daughter Indian Tribal Care Trust always looks for ways to help all these tribal people. For this, our team of volunteers goes to various Adopting a parts of the tribal villages of India. We had received information about such a needy family in Assam. They were a family of 3 tribal family members living in terrible conditions. The family had no one to look after them. Also, both her children were mentally unstable and helpless. The only earning member of their family died many years ago, and all these years, they were getting food for themselves with the help of th local villagers. The condition that they were in was terrible. Hence, our team from the Indian Tribal Care Trust choose this family of three members to give support for the next year. One donor from ITCT agreed to provide all kinds of support and help to this family. page 3 copyright itct 2020 Tithi Bhoj - Celebrating Special Occasion with tribals One of our donor, Sri Neel Kamal After we circulated the news and photos Srivastava wanted to feed the people of among our other donors, we got several the tribal community on his birthday. As per more requests for these kinds of programs. his wish, ITCT also arranged everything to Most of our donors also wanted to distribute free meals to the people. We organize such Tithi Bhoj for these tribal choose one village from Purulia called communities. Like all these good Maldi Sabar Pally. Even in this pandemic samaritans, you can also celebrate your situation, our volunteers helped a lot to special occasion with these tribal and prepare unique dishes for the villagers. spread happiness. There were balloons, and we adorned the whole place beautifully for the special For such events and more, you can go drop occasion. On that day, more than 300 an email at: bps@pamho.net or Sabar Pally tribal villagers attended the sukanta.b@itct.org.in feast. page 4 copyright itct 2020 Message from the Chairman During this Covid 19 lock down period we had a very wonderful realization and it was like eye opening for us who are taking care of tribals in different part of India. Since in inception of ITCT we have been emphasizing on education and health care of tribal people along with social care and emotional care etc. Now we have realized before any other care tribal people first needs their food which is big problem for them. Due to lock down all over India our tribal people were left to live with out food. Even if Government was helping with food but that was only available to those poor people who are registered and have ration card . But these tribal people, due to their presence in jungle and some in very deep jungle where there is no communication to reach , have no ration card. They are so innocent that they do not even know how to manage getting Ration cards to get Government help . Even if some people have managed to get some time ration dose not reach to the proper place and to proper person. By seeing this situation our tribal care givers in the field started to distribute cooked food and uncooked food packets by collecting donations locally. By seeing our care givers enthusiasm and sincerity we felt encouraged to arrange bigger scale food relief. To our surprise when we appealed to our tribal care supporters we received overwhelming responses and we could manage to distribute about 15 lacs worth of dry ratiions and cooked foods in six different states covering nine districts reaching to hundreds of villages. The experience of our tribal care giver was beyond imagination. They have never seen tribal people so happy to get food than any other help we have been extending. Coincidentally one well wisher developed desire to feed food on his mother's punyatithi. That was very successful food distribution among poor tribal people. Following this trend now many others have come forward to feed poor tribal people in deep forest on their children birth day, parents sradha ceremony day etc. Usually people spend so much money on these occasions. If a small portion of that money can be kept aside and spent for feeding tribals just imagine how much blessings you will receive by smiles you are causing on the faces of tribals. Our plan for this year is we select 10 tribal areas in 6 different states in India where we have active care givers who can take responsibility of preparing and distributing food. Out of 365 days our volunteers will dedicate at least 300 days in a year arranging food distribution in as many as tribal villages. For this purpose donation starting from a minimum amount of Rs. 5000 to any bigger amount to cover the cost of food to be distributed will be appreciated. To start with this unique program we need 3000 sponsorships to cover 10 areas with each are distributing food at 300 villages per year. That will give us opportunity to serve food for 300000 poor tribal people per year. Please give a deep thought to this glorious project and let us know what you think about it and how you would like to participate in this program. Thank you so much for your kind consideration. Yours in the service of the Lord , Bhaktipurusottam Swami page 5 copyright itct 2020 Our Donors and Supporters in May 2020 AMBIKA GILL KRISHNA PADA MAJI RAO VITTAPALLI ANANDAN P V KAIMAI KRISHNENDU BAYEN RAVINDRA SINGH ANISH KUMAR GIRI KULAPRIYA MADHAVI DEVI DASI REKHA JEYABALAN ARCHANA V KUSUMA RAVI SHANKAR REKHA KUMARI BALAKRISHNAN SARAVANAN LAKSHMI RAJU SACHIN OMPRAKASH HEMA JAGANNATH MAA TARA TRADING CO SANBAKATHAMAN RAGHU BOJANKI SURESH NAIDU MADDURI SR SANDEEP PRABHU CHAITANYA KUMAR MOONESH SHIBDOYAL SANJAY PANDAY DANVIR DAS MOUMITA CHAKRABORTY SANJAYANAND KRSNA DAS DHARMARAJ SHANKAR MUTHIAYAN RAMESH SHIRISHA RAO DHRUV GUPTA NALLURI BHASKAR RAO SHWETA GAUTAM KAPUR GATTE MAHESH NARENDRA SATISH RAJKUVAR SIVAPRAKAS GAURANGA KUMAR NAVIN DAUND SOORIYA SITHAN GAURAV SHARMA NEE LAH SREERAM K V MADDUKUR GIRIRAJ KISHOR NEEL KAMAL SUBHASH AGGARWAL HARIKRISHNAN NITIN MITTAL SUJEET KUNDU IRENI VENUGOPAL PRAGYA MATAJI SUMANTH KRISHNA JAIBIR SHARMA PRAKASH GOVINDAN SURUCHI ARORA JANAKI THYAGARAJAN PRAKKI SAI RAMA SRIDATTA TSAVATAPALLI GANESH JITU GARTI RAJA SATYANDRA INDUKURI UMESH KAKKAD KILLI KARUNASRI RAJASEKHAR PRABHU UVAYN KUMAR PANDEY KOTTURI KAMESHWAR RAO RAMESH KUMAR PANDAY VADANYA PRABHU KOUSTAV MAITY RAMESH S VENKATA K S KARNATI KOYA SOMA SEKHAR RAMONA DASS VIJAY VINEET ARORA page 6 https://indiatribalcare.org copyright itct 2020
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