1 S T E D I T I O N , A P R I L 2 0 2 0 IT C T NEWSLETTER India Tribal Care Trust Official Newsletter India Tribal C are Trust Marks Its 4th Year India Tribal Care Trust (ITCT) marked its 4th year on the day of 19th March 2020. Like every year, this year also, we would like to send our utmost regards to our well-wishers from all over the world for their continuous support and encouragement. In all these four years, we were successful in helping almost millions of people from the tribes living across north-east and eastern states of India. We, all the people behind India Tribal Care Trust, planned to celebrate this year in an even larger scale and aura. But, we had to cancel all the celebrations due to the global pandemic situation and the nationwide lock down. Due to the strict rules and regulations, our normal operations took a hit. We were not able to help the tribes of places like Purulia, Assam and Tripura with our full capabilities. The sudden change in society made the life difficult of us and as well to them. But even at this moment of emergency, we at India Tribal Care Trust thought of the health and security of Indian tribal communities. In just a few days, we got fully prepared to fight this situation. With due respect to the guidelines of Government of India, we had to shut down schools managed by India Tribal Care Trust in those tribal areas. Not just this, we also had a lot of events planned for this upcoming academic year. We had almost 20 school openings this year in Tripura. But, we could not do it because of lock down. In spite of going behind a bit, we continued to stand beside the people from the Indian tribal community. We organized and set up funds for the relief of those people. We supplied cooked foods and ration to the families of the tribal communities. In the situation of social distancing, India Tribal Care Trust made sure that we give full support to those who are in need. P A G E 1 C ontents 1 - ITCT completes 4 yrs 2 - Corona relief works 4 - Know the tribes 5 - Our Donors 1 S T M O N T H , A P R I L 2 0 2 0 Relief Works For The Global Pandemic A mong The Indian Tribal C ommunities The Corona Virus disease, which was later referred to by researchers and scientists as Covid-19, spreads and progresses primarily from one individual to another individual. The infection is more prevalent in individuals with symptoms. In a place like India, where there is a significant population density, the contamination of the virus is very much hard to stop. Even in this emergency, our centres arranged the daily ration, foods, goods and essentials for all the needy tribal people. Our area coordinators also managed and looked after the whole process to ensure all the norms. Not just the team of India Tribal Care Trust, the locals even provided cooked food to the villagers. Due to the pandemic situation, all sorts of transportation means came to a full stop, and the daily wage workers, migrant labourers, got severely affected. The status of those who earn their bread on a daily basis became very delicate. They were left alone by the community. But, India Tribal Care Trust still supported them and stood beside those people who were in hand to mouth situations as all the offices, factories and public services got closed. Seeing all this relief work of our organization, some wealthy businessmen residing in the regional towns of Purulia, Jalpaiguri, North Tripura, have begun to support all of us by donating in different ways. They presented many additional food items, such as grains, pulses and potatoes, to the tribal families. On the first week of April, we opened our food relief centres in tribal areas across states including Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Jharkhand, Odisha, Tripura and West Bengal. In certain places where our volunteers could not set up a community kitchen, we started to distribute dry rations, including rice, pulses, potato, oil, salt, soap etc. The Government aid was limited to rice, pulse and wheat when it started to assist these people in some of these regions. On the other hand, we arranged ration packs in such a manner that it would be enough for the families throughout one week. We decided to celebrate our 4 years by standing beside the tribals during this pandemic P A G E 2 1 S T M O N T H , A P R I L 2 0 2 0 C OVID 19 Food Relief in numbers 6 states 9 districts 10000 families 150000 persons One and half million plates of foods distributed IT C T C ovid-19 relief works across 6 states of India P A G E 3 1 S T M O N T H , A P R I L 2 0 2 0 Know One of These Tribal C ommunities Of India – The Savar The Savar or Savara tribe is one of the primitive tribes or adivasi of the Munda ethnic tribe, mainly in Jharkhand and West Bengal. People with the background of Savar are also known as Saora. Such tribes have their presence in the epic Mahabharata. In West Bengal, there are about 40,000 Savar, the majority of whom live in the Jhargram district. The significant economic practices of the Savar tribe include basketry, collection of small forest goods, lac cultivation and agriculture. The Indian Tribal Care Trust runs 4 pathshalas for the children of Savar in savar pallies of Purulia, West Bengal. Interestingly, most of these children go to school for the first time in their family. We also organize health camps and distribute blankets, etc. as and when needed. Sabars are also known as Saora and this tribe is mentioned in the epic Mahabharata. Do you know which is the largest tribe in India? Wait for the next edition.... 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