Open Hands Education Trust | Providing warm blankets for poor

Providing warm blankets for vulnerable elderly villagers in the cold winter months

Providing warm blankets for poor elderly villagers in the cold winter months

Food, clothing and shelter are the three basic human needs. Many among India and Bihar’s underprivileged people lack adequate clothing and blankets to keep warm in the harsh winters of northern India. Comfort and even survival can become difficult – especially for the vulnerable elderly.

Open Hands Education Trust has been gifting warm blankets to these helpless elders. Providing them with the comfort of a blanket in winter is a gesture that can be life-saving.

We would like to expand this program to include elders in other local villages as well as Dadwan. Each blanket costs $18 Canadian. One fifty blankets would then cost $900 Canadian. Next winter we are love to provide blankets for up to 50 vulnerable elderly villagers in Dadwan and surrounding villages. You can help these disadvantaged elders by donating towards this program.

With the comfort of our living rooms, we, tucked into our beds or sofas wrapped in layers of warm clothes, fail to realize the pain of all those people who have to battle out the cold in the open or with minimal resources. We easily beat the winter with our warm, cozy clothes that are at our disposal any moment we wish for. But, all of us are not so lucky. There are people out there who do not have money to afford a day’s meal. How will they afford warm clothes? This is the question all of us who never had to face the bitter truth of winters should be asking ourselves
With our introduction of basic sewing skills girls can move from their village after marriage and take their knowledge with them, sometimes even creating a micro business or simple training centre of their own. In this way the knowledge and skills are spread so maximum support can be reached to many more girls in this manner thus creating a powerful ripple effect of change. Already we have seen the power in action of this transfer of knowledge and opportunity.

With the onset of winters knocking at our doors, Open Hands Education Trust plans to expand its service for humanity to rural villages. In order to do that, we require a minimum of 300 blankets this coming winter. We firmly believe in our supporters and know that whenever we need them, they will be by our side. With our supporters by our side we know that this year’s campaign is going to a bigger success. We humbly call out to all the people out there who share the common dream of helping others in need, to come and be a part of our mission and vision for there is no better joy and satisfaction then helping others and saving a life.

Come this winter, be a hero, a winter soldier for the needy. We all come across people in need around us. So this winter, let us pledge that we will not let anyone shiver to sleep. Wherever we see people fighting this harsh cold with nothing but themselves, let us help them by providing warm clothes or warm food to them. This should be a personal commitment for all of us who know that our fight against the winter is a piece of cake, people who have enough to take them through this winter comfortably. Remember, you don’t need to be a part of a greater cause to start a change, for the change is within you.