Adopt a grandparent by providing them monthly groceries by Gram Vikas Trust

Adopt a grandparent by providing them monthly groceries

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This program is fully funded because of donors like you.

Impact

Every monthly donation helps in feeding elderly citizens like Savitaben

Savitaben from Ambher, Gujrat is 78 years old. She lost her husband a few years ago and does not have any family to take care of her. Due to dire poverty, even at this age, she works as a domestic help to earn her living. With age not on her side, she could not work long hours.

This impacted her earning and she had to go hungry many times. Gram Vikas Trust (GVT) came to her aid and started to provide her with grocery rations monthly to secure her basic needs.

Savitaben is no longer helpless and feels taken care of. While she still works as a domestic help, she is not at the mercy of her job just for two meals a day.

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About The Program

What the beneficiary gets
Rations
Nutrition
What you get
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Program Description

Gram Vikas Trust (GVT) is a national level organization that works with the poor and underprivileged villages of Gujarat. The condition of poor senior citizens is terrible, particularly in the rural areas and urban slums of Bharuch district. They are at the mercy of their children and relatives and are often humiliated.

They have no access to health care, basic welfare needs and face many problems for their survival. Through this program, Gram Vikas Trust extends aid to the elderly by providing monthly grocery rations.

When you support this program, a grandparent like Savitaben is assigned to your donation and you will be the reason for him or her living their last days in dignity.

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About The NGO

Gram Vikas Trust
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Gram Vikas Trust

Hailing from a rural background, the founder of Gram Vikas Trust (GVT) was no stranger to hardships. Ramesh Kasondra, himself, has undergone several economic and social challenges.

In order to convert his experience and exposure to support and uplift his society, he established Gram Vikas Trust. GVT now operates in more than 100 villages of Bharuch district with the key areas being child rights, education, health and hygiene, sustainable livelihood, and women empowerment. GVT's belief that knowledge is the path to self-development has re-enrolled thousands of school drop-outs back to school. To promote an equitable living environment, GVT gives vocational training to hundreds of students each year along with awareness on health and hygiene.

The organization was actively involved in constructing and renovating the sanitation facilities of the Government Schools in and around their district. GVT is committed to creating a strong and independent society without inequality. It aims for a society free of discrimination and where everybody enjoys equal opportunities.

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founders
Founded in 1991
NGO Leadership

Ramesh J. Kasondra

areas of operation
Area of Operation
Area of Operation

Girl Child | education

location of work
Location of Work
Location of Work

Gujarat

Gram Vikas Trust has

provided vocational training to 675 unerprivileged youth across the country

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Last Audited
Periodic Compliance Checks by GiveIndia

Renewals FY 19-20

Program Updates

Program Updates

22 September, 2023

An update on the program you are supporting

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Activities and work undertaken in the last 5-6 months

Total number of beneficiaries impacted was 205 in villages of Vagra in Gujarat with 90% being females


Challenges faced and next steps

1230 ration kits were distributed. Each kit contained: 1. Oil 1 kg 2. Salt 1 kg 3. Wheat Atta 2 kg. 4. Milk Powder 500 gram 5. Potato 5 kg. 6. Rice 1 kg. 7. Pulses 4 kg


Stories from the ground

Gajaraben is a 74 years old woman who is ill and has sickness due to old age. She is a widow and lives alone from many years. She has no children and her condition is very pitiable. She is completely dependent on beggary for food. Gajaraben says, �I will be able to eat two times meal regularly for a month after receiving this ration kit. This kit will help me fill my stomach and I can sleep peacefully with full stomach�. Due to old aged and no one from the family, her life is very difficult for the vulnerable part of the society. We can see that people who work for daily food are suffering very badly to survive. Gajaraben is also one of those who earns by doing some domestic work in the village. Dry ration kit has helped a poor lady to eat every day without thinking about what she will do today. This ration kit will help Gajaraben during the project period.


19 July, 2022

Kindness is transformational

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Activities and work undertaken in the last 5-6 months

Gram Vikas Trust, Bharuch distributes food kits to many elderlies. Out-migration is very common in the rural part of Bharuch as the younger generation migrates to the city for the purpose of livelihood. Therefore, the geriatric parents are left behind in their own house and they are not even taken care of. This is where GVT has come to the rescue of elderly people. It identifies the geriatric through intensive surveys. They are then given counselling sessions and their needs are understood in a better way. It provides them with nutrition food kits, after looking deeply into their food habits. They ensure enough food supplies and beneficiaries can utilise ration packets for a full month. Apart from the ration kits, GVT provides counselling to the elderly who suffers from the COVID-19 pandemic and encourage them for vaccination.


Challenges faced and next steps

Tracking elderly people was the most difficult task we faced. The usage of cell phones were significantly less in the elderly, and sometimes they migrated to different places. Therefore it created barriers to trace them during food kit distribution. Due to Covid-19, the arrangements for such a large group was very hard. With the help of the volunteers in each village, we had to monitor every old-age person. Recently, we have been planning to be in close contact with the teams. We have scheduled for the village level meeting regarding the necessary actions for the safety of our beneficiaries.


Stories from the ground

Bijuriben is an economically deprived woman living in impoverishment. She is a geriatric woman who lives in Navi Nagari faliya of Talodara located in the Bharuch district of Gujarat. She lives a very difficult life because she is deprived of necessities. Her children left her back in the village and they went to the city in search of a livelihood source. Bijuriben had no one to support her in any way. She did not have any documents like income certificates or caste certificates to avail the government welfare schemes. Today, she is happy that we are providing her food kits and she wishes to avail the benefits further. She is very scared to take the vaccination, but our team is counselling her to get vaccinated.


30 September, 2021

Distribution of food kits as a ray of hope during hard times

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Activities and work undertaken in the last 5-6 months

Gram Vikas Trust distributes ration kits to many geriatric who is completely forsaken by the family. We have seen a pattern especially in the rural areas of Bharuch that generally young personals get educated and then migrate to the urban areas. Generally, the old parents are left behind in their own house and they are not even taken care of. This is where GVT comes in action, we have done very intensive surveys and made many research in identification of these geriatric who have been abundant by their family and are left as a widower. They are then provided with Counselling sessions and the need is identified, we provide them with the necessary nutrition after looking deeply into their local diet. They are given the ration packets that they utilise for a full month and they benefit from the same to maintain a healthy living. This particular time we also did a survey on the contamination of Covid 19 as well and also provided counselling on the Vaccination that has to be taken by them for their benefits. Most of our old age took vaccination after our intervention that we count as an achievement.


Challenges faced and next steps

Due to Covid-19 prevalence, it was difficult for us to make arrangements for such a large group of people and also to track them as most of them, do not use any technology and a few of them also moved from their villages to different places. Few of them also were diagnosed with Covid and they were provided with necessary information on how to take care of them so that they could be safe and can get well soon. We then used a mechanism where we were able to monitor every old person with the help of the volunteers that we have in each village. Soon, we are planning to be in close contact with the teams at the village level and take some necessary actions for the safety of our own beneficiaries. Also, a regular supply of the food kit would help them from overcoming the hunger that is forcing them to work as daily wage labour.


Stories from the ground

Impact story from the ground:Gohil Kashiben Dabhaybhai is a 70-year-old from Nadarkha village in Vagra block of Bharuch District. She lives alone in a hut where her 3 children were born, she says that “I got married at the age of 17 and came in this house, the house was of my father in law, I saw many things in this house, my husband died in this house my children grew in this house, now my children have left me alone to die, but I want to breathe my last breath in this house only”. Kashibens two daughters are married and live with their husbands in different parts of Gujarat. They are not very well to do and so they cannot help her mother on the other hand her son has left her alone in the village and has gone to the city area to live. He is also not giving her any money for her living. Her health is also diminishing with time and she is not feeling very well, her complete dependency is on us for her health. GVT also attached her profile with the Widow Pension scheme of the government and she is availing the benefit of the scheme as well.


26 March, 2021

Providing food for our elderly souls

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Gram Vikas Trust (GVT) is working with the poor and underprivileged communities of Bharuch District. The condition of poor and old in the district is terrible, particularly in the rural areas and isolated villages of the district. They are at the completely dependent on their children and relatives and are often sleeping hungry.
Jagadia block of Bharuch district has huge population of tribal communities, most of the people from this communities work as agricultural or industrial labor they do not have any other income generation opportunities. GVT conducts FGD with these communities and list out old age beneficiaries, conduct home visits and provide ration kit to old age people. After providing ration kit we also monitor if the use of the kit is done in the right way. After one month our team takes follow up and provides the next kit.
GVT provide Ration Kit to Old age people from Jagadia block and Vagra Block, our ration kit contains 1kg salt, 1ltr edible Oil, 1kg rice, 500gm Milk powder, 3kg wheat flour, 3kg onion, 3 kg potatoes, 250 Grms Tuvar Dal, 250gm dry Peas, 250 gm beans, 250gm chickpeas. GVT have prepared ration kit that will help to fulfil all nutritional need of old age person. Which helps them to maintain good health and leave a healthy life. Our team makes sure that old age person should use all the items provided in Ration Kit, after providing we also ensure that the kit is only used by beneficiaries on a regular basis. Beneficiaries after receiving ration kit they don’t have to worry about food and they don’t have to depend on relatives for food. They also share that it will be good for them if we will provide ration kit on a regular basis. Before Receiving the Kit they have to depend on neighbours and other relatives for daily meals few of the old age are also begging for food.



5 July, 2020

Distribution of old age food kit distribution after collective counselling and intervention

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Distribution of old age food kit distribution after collective counselling and intervention




Gram vikas trust provides monthly grocceries to all the adopted grandparents, the fantastic number reached last month was for 50 old age with all the basic grocessies which provide them with nutritional benefits. Thus to identify the same the field staff visits the house, meets the beneficiary, identify the need for the intervention, interacts with the neighboring community and later provides the benefit to them. It is also being practiced in GVT that along with the food items a regular councilling is also provided so that the geriatric feel honored. As a future plan, GVT strives to intervene more and more old age niradhar (needy) groups as a helping hand.



3 December, 2019

Happy to receive the grocery kits

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Happy to receive the grocery kits







22 July, 2019

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Program Update


Gram Vikas Trust (GVT) is a national level organization that works with the poor and underprivileged villages of Gujarat. The condition of poor senior citizens is terrible, particularly in the rural areas and urban slums of Bharuch district. They are at the mercy of their children and relatives and are often humiliated. Talodara Village come under Jagadia block of Bharuch district and having huge population of tribal communities, most of the people from this communities work as agricultural or industrial labor they do not have any other income generation opportunities. GVT conducts FGD with these communities and list out old age beneficiaries, conduct home visits and provide ration kit to old age people. After providing ration kit we also educate them how to use the kit. After one month our team takes regular follow up regarding use of kits.


GVT provide Ration Kit to Old age people from Jagadia block, our ration kit contains 1kg salt, 1ltr edible Oil, 1kg rice, 500gm Milk powder, 3kg wheat flour, 3kg onion, 3 kg potatoes, 250 Grms Tuvar Dal, 250gm dry Peas, 250 gm beans, 250gm chickpeas. GVT have prepared ration kit that will help to fulfil all nutritional need of old age person. which helps them to maintain good health and leave a healthy life. Our team makes sure that old age person should use all the items provided in Ration Kit, after providing we also ensure that the kit is only used by beneficiaries on a regular basis. Beneficiaries after receiving ration kit they don’t have to worry about food and they don’t have to depend on relatives for food. They also share that it will be good for them if we will provide ration kit on a regular basis. Before Receiving the Kit they have to depend on neighbors and other relatives for daily meals. GVT has provided a total of 90 Ration Kits in the month of January to March 2019 to Old age Beneficiaries from which around 40 beneficiaries are above 75 years age.


Story from the field


Kantaben Vasava Talodara Bharuch Gujrat is 71 years old. She leaves in Talodara Village of Jagadia Block having huge population of tribal communities, most of the people from this communities work as agricultural or industrial labour they do not have any other income generation opportunities.She lost her husband a few years ago and does not have any family to take care of her. Due to dire poverty, even at this age, she works as a agricultural labour that help her to earn her living;she could not work long hours in this age this impacted her earning and she had to sleep hungry many times as neighbours and other villagers take care of her for meals and other basic needs
While doing FGD in Talodara village our team came to know about Kantaben our team visited her house and meet with neighbours after meeting with them GVT decided to give her ration kit which can help her to get regular meals and secure her basic needs.
Kantaben is no longer helpless and feels taken care of. Now she can rest at her home she left the work of agricultural labour and take proper care of her self our team also described her how can she use ration kit and how it will be helpful to improve her health. She shares before this help she was not able to have milk on regular basis but now she is happy as she is getting milk powder and consume it daily.


What is the expected total number of beneficiaries in this program for FY18-19?550
What is the number of beneficiaries/ benefits provided in this program, Year-To-Date480
Village/City/State where project is locatedBharuch District
Total Budget for the project for FY18-19357500
Total Expenses for the project YTD312000

20 February, 2019

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Program Update


Gram Vikas trust provides monthly groceries to all the adopted grandparents, the fantastic number reached last month was for 60 old age with all the basic groceries which provide them with nutritional benefits. Thus to identify the same the field staff visits the house, meets the beneficiary, identify the need for the intervention, interacts with the neighboring community and later provides the benefit to them. It is also being practiced in GVT that with the food items a regular counseling is also provided so that the geriatric feel honored. As a future plan, GVT strives to intervene more and more old age niradhar groups as a helping hand.


Story from the field


At the age of 68, Chauhan Ambubhai Sankarbhai lives with his old wife in dhobi Faliya of Amber village. He was blessed with three daughters and having no son was always his concern for retirement. As young and energetic he was a farmer and his wife was a helping hand to him in his occupation. His farming and other labor work did not pay him well to make a huge house for his family thus he kept on repairing his old house whenever there was a need or whenever there was his daughter's wedding. With all his sweat and blood he somehow made his daughters marry with all wishes of the grooms family fulfilled. From a phone, to a bike to a gold chain. All the sons-in-laws were never disappointed. Thus they were left with nothing at the end. It was observed that the nutrition intake of the family was so low that they could not even manage two time rice or roti for them. Sometimes they sleep without one time meal. Sometimes neighbours also provide meal again if they do some domestic work in their neighbour's house. This is where GVT intervened and provides basic food grains and other necessities to them so that he and his old wife can have daily food without much difficulties. Now the family is healthy and happy!


What is the expected total number of beneficiaries in this program for FY18-19?630
What is the number of beneficiaries/ benefits provided in this program, Year-To-Date320
Village/City/State where project is locatedVagra Block
Total Budget for the project for FY18-19910000
Total Expenses for the project YTD910000

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