Help Pumpkin House recover from COVID

India is experiencing a devastating surge in COVID-19 cases, which has overwhelmed the country’s health care system. Health care workers are struggling to provide emergency help as the oxygen and vaccine shortage worsens. COVID-19 has affected many, including local educational facilities for children.

Background story:

“Pumpkin House was born in 2005 with a mission to provide a loving home and high quality education to neglected and abandoned children in the vicinity of Ahmednagar, India.

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Ahmednagar being a severely drought affected district; the incidence of poverty is very high. With land barely able to sustain the people, many of them, especially the poorest move out of their villages to work as contract laborers with sugarcane contractors or on brick kilns. Difficult work circumstances, poor nutrition and lack of medical facilities are a major cause of untimely deaths. This often leaves the children orphaned or with only one parent, who is quite unable to care for their needs. Thus children are often abandoned or sometimes even sold, which not only serve as a source of income, but also reduce the number of mouths to be fed. The children are thus left to fend for themselves and often exposed to various forms of physical and mental abuse.

How Can I Help?

Pumpkin House was set up to meet the needs of orphaned or abandoned children, to provide them with basic safety facilities, care, education, and an environment in which they can grow up into loving and responsible adults. We are fighting to break the vicious cycle of poverty.

Who Benefits from Your Donation?

Funds will be granted to the children in Pumpkin House. Your donation will help provide children with everyday
living needs and educational tools. Please help us fulfill their mission. We will notify donors by posting an updates to this Fund.