Open Hands Education Trust | Providing warm blankets and dry food to vulnerable elderly and children

Providing warm blankets and dry food to vulnerable elderly and children

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

Food, clothing, and shelter are the three most basic human needs. Yet many vulnerable elderly individuals in India—and particularly in Bihar—lack adequate clothing, nutritious food, and warm blankets to protect them during the harsh winters of northern India. For those already facing hardship, comfort and even survival can become difficult without this essential support.

Open Hands Education Trust has been supporting vulnerable elderly people and children by providing warm blankets and essential dry food supplies. Together, we aim to bring comfort, warmth, and nourishment to those who need it most. We are working to address these needs by providing warm blankets, distributing dry food bags to elderly individuals, and offering meals to children. A simple blanket during winter is more than a gift—it can be life-saving.

As we look to the future, we hope to expand this initiative to support elderly residents in additional local villages beyond Dadwan. Each blanket costs $18 CAD, and each dry food bag costs $20 CAD. The cost of 50 blankets totals $18,00 CAD. Our goal for the coming winter is to provide blankets to up to 100 vulnerable elderly and 100 bags of dry food villagers in Dadwan village and surrounding areas.

We invite you to help make this possible. Your support can bring warmth, comfort, and dignity to disadvantaged elders who need it most. Any contribution toward this program will directly impact lives and help us extend compassion to those who are too often forgotten.

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.

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