Utthana Charitable Trust launches special program for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (HIV related)
Care and Support for OVC (Orphaned and Vulnerable Children), Bagalkot District, Karnataka
Bangalore, India — October 30, 2008 — Utthana Charitable Trust, the brainchild of Mr & Mrs. Anant R Koppar and dedicated to improving the lives of underprivileged children, and Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT) have come together and announced their tie-up as well as launch of a special childcare program ‘Care and Support for OVC (Orphaned and Vulnerable Children), Bagalkot District, Karnataka’.
Care and Support for OVC program emphasizes on encouraging extended families, relatives and communities to provide care for orphans, nutritional support, health support, education support and support for OVC.
Nutritional support will be extended to families that are in dire need of basic and immediate support. Health support seeks to ensure that all requirement of children in particular the ongoing support to the various health needs including provision of prophylactic & OI medication is met. Educational support aims to support educational needs of children keeping in view the reality that most PLHIV families find it hard to sustain the diverse needs of the family given their poor state of health and regular absence from work.
The Utthana Charitable Trust is supported by an impressive number of patrons from the IT industry and is taken forward by a highly committed, voluntary team from within KTwo. KTwo Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd, Bangalore supports Utthana in all its charitable activities as a part of its Corporate Social Responsibility. Through the generosity of contributors the trust has been able to provide needy children with a variety of programs and services to meet their basic needs, enhance their human dignity and raise their physical and educational levels in a meaningful, way. Utthana Charitable Trust, which has grown in a short span of time has succeeded in touching the lives of many young people, many of whom are trapped in the vicious cycle of poverty and social marginalization.
“We will have focus on empowering or supporting single parent households. The support will be to the single parents (due to HIV) to provide comprehensive care to their children (infected and affected),” said Mr Anant Koppar. “Child specific activities will be conducted with the use of special tools to assess psychomotor development of infected and affected children.”
Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT) is a partnership between the Karnataka State AIDS Prevention Society (KSAPS) and the University of Manitoba, Canada. KHPT’s objectives are to support activities in the areas of reproductive health and HIV and AIDS, and to support activities and projects that will lead to the enhanced health and well being of individuals and communities in India.
Dr.Stephen Moses, Managing Trustee, Karnataka Health Promotion Trust, observed “with a background of India being third largest HIV infected country in the world and about 4-5 million children with HIV positive parents, we are very grateful to the Utthana Charitable Trust for supporting this extremely important care and support initiative for vulnerable children in Bagalkot District", and added “we hope that this will be the beginning of a long and productive collaboration with Utthana, which will provide much needed assistance to children and others who are in need in Karnataka
The proposed project will extend the support for the children for - Education ( 350 Children), Medical (450 Children) and Travel (106 children) components for a period of One year.
Did we know and realize that out of every 100 disadvantaged children:
- 1 dies before birth.
- Another does not live to see its first birthday.
- 6 - 7 die when they are between 1 and 5 years old.
- And only 15 - 20 grow to their full potential.
- 63% of all Indian children between 1 and 4 years are malnourished to some degree.
- Only 50% of the children in the age group 6 - 14 have access to primary education.
- At least 4000 infant girls are killed every year in
- Over 6.5 lakh children die every year from disease, with around 2000 babies dying per year.
About Utthana Charitable Trust
The Utthana Charitable Trust, dedicated to improving the lives of children living in dire poverty, was initiated by Anant R Koppar, CEO, KTwo Technology Solutions. Utthana's objective is to help free young children from poverty and abuse.
Our purpose is also to the help the other weaker sections of society, and pitch in wherever we can to help the underprivileged live better. To carry our work forward we have identified fund-raising activities that would make the organization meaningful. For more information on this specific project, please visit Utthana website: http://www.utthana.com/
About KHPT
Karnataka Health Promotion Trust established in 2003 as a partnership between the Karnataka State AIDS Prevention Society (KSAPS) and the University of Manitoba, Canada to deliver HIV-and AIDS-related Prevention, Care/support programmes and services. KSAPS is the government body implementing the National AIDS Control Organization’s (NACO) National AIDS Control Programme in Karnataka.
SAMASTHA- integrated HIV and AIDS Prevention and Care in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh is funded by United States Agency for International Development ( USAID).
University of Manitoba(UOM) is the Prime recipient for SAMASTHA Project and KHPT is its lead implementation partner in India. Website: http://www.khpt.org/
Contact Person for KHPT- Miss. Mallika Biddappa, Ph: 9341032266.
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