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Help Adarsh Nagar Migrants Rebuild Their Lives
  • Ashutosh

    Created by

    Ashutosh Joshi
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    This fundraiser will benefit

    Adarsh Nagar Migrants

    from New Delhi, Delhi

Background

In May 2018 we started this campaign to support the Adarsh Nagar Migrants colony. The colony, which was already beset by a myriad of problems, suffered a big blow when the authorities disconnected their power connection in June 2018. We supported the colony by running a diesel generator for most of the year 2018 while reaching out to the authorities for restoration of electric connection. However, we are sad to report that despite best of our efforts, the colony is still without power for a year now. The struggle of the residents was also covered in various leading newspapers but to no avail.


Solar Power Solution

With the scorching summer heat of Delhi beating down on the residents, we used the remaining money in the campaign to purchase Solar Panels with inverter, battery, fan, lights and a power point for 40 families.
However, we still need to provide the remaining 50 households with solar power. The price for each of the solar powered set up is INR 12,075 excluding freight and installation. We are aiming to raise INR 6,60,000 to cover for the purchase, freight and installation with this campaign. Please contribute so that the residents of Adarsh Nagar can get electricity and light and have some respite from the summer heat.

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Background
Adarsh Nagar colony in North Delhi is a settlement of 600 Pakistani Hindus living in India on a long term visa. These persecuted minorities are not the subject of any sympathy from the International community for the treatment meted out to them by their home country, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Reduced to second class citizens in Pakistan, they look up to India as the only country that can offer them a chance at respectful existence.

The Colony
The colony houses around 85 families adding up to 600 persons which includes 150 children. Peaceful and tolerant, these down to earth people feel blessed at being free to practice their religion without any fear. They live in small temporary houses with little or no facilities and earn their living by working small jobs to support their livelihood and contribute to the economy.

Rude Awakening
Their small world was shaken in April and May 2018 by repeated thunderstorms which caused widespread damage to their hutments.

             

Hardly had they managed to recover from this, their electricity supply was disconnected by the authorities in the first week of June. As days passed, the children started getting sick with the unrelenting heat of the scorching Delhi sun. Their pleas for restoration of electricity supply fell on deaf ears until highlighted on social media. As of 27th June 2018, the electricity supply is still not restored.

                       

Deep Dive on Adarsh Nagar

The devoted and selfless caretaker Shri Hariom Sahoo has revealed many issues which show us, the Indic community, of failing to live up to our value of Atithi Devo Bhavah and grossly neglecting the need to provide a social and spiritual anchor to this vulnerable community. 

             

The colony has many basic needs such as for better shelters, water, sanitation, medicines, education and livelihood but the biggest of them all is the need for electricity which has been cut for more than 2 months now.

                   
                          
The community has purchased a diesel generator with its own money.
This campaign aims to generate a corpus of INR 10 lakh that will be used to buy the daily diesel to run the generator. It will provide electricity from 8 in the night to 6 in the morning everyday.

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