Underprivileged depend on 'HOPE' for eradicating India's poverty. IIT Alumni Rahul Sharma designed nation emergency formula for poor, ‘HOPE’
Delhi, Jul 28, 2020 (Issuewire.com) - A Delhi based NGO, Pranyas, founded by a very young, dynamic IIT Bombay Alumni Rahul Sharma, predicts "India will either have no poor or will have nothing for poor by the year 2022, and that will be a significant change we will see after the mega-blockbuster event of Covid-19 in India and the world". According to Rahul, this change in India mostly will be because of the reasons: unequal distribution of wealth, people's psychological change after Covid-19 and, economic wellbeing.
According to Oxfam's report," India's top 1% of the population holds 42.5% of national wealth while the bottom 50%, the majority of the population, owns a mere 2.8% of the national wealth. In other words, the top 1% hold more than 4 times the wealth held by 953 million people (or the bottom 70% of the population). The Wealth of the top 9 billionaires is equivalent to the wealth of the bottom 50% of the population."
On April 16, the World Bank reformed its brief note on 'Understanding Poverty' stating: "According to the most recent estimates, in 2015, 10 percent of the world's population or 734 million people lived on less than $1.90 a day. That's down from nearly 36 percent or 1.9 billion people in 1990. However, due to the Covid-19 crisis as well as the oil price drop, this trend probably will reverse in 2020. The Covid-19 crisis will have a disproportionate impact on the poor, through job loss, loss of remittances, rising prices, and disruptions in services such as education and health care."
The note ended with the following:
"Moreover, for those who have been able to move out of poverty, progress is often temporary: Economic shocks, food insecurity, and climate change threaten to rob them of their hard-won gains and force them back into poverty. It will be critical to find ways to tackle these issues as we make progress towards 2030."
Rahul along with his team of thousands of volunteers has been 24 x 7 in the line of action supporting laborers and poor since the Covid-19 happened to India. Rahul's front line action organization called 'Pranyas' has been making rounds all across the country to understand poverty for the past 2 years. As COVID hit the nation, the situation worsened for poor, that's when Rahul came up with model 'HOPE'. In India, a lot of social groups have taken several initiatives and actions on multiple platforms for eradicating poverty but now the situation is different.
With no-education comes poverty and fewer opportunities, the 'HOPE' looks out for educating the baseline of the nation, 'children'. Rahul adds, "If the foundation of our population is strong, our nation-building without poverty is achievable."
'HOPE' is an initiative designed for children having fewer opportunities like financial strain, lack of resources, and is motivated towards education. In this program, a group of 20 people is formed and that group will take the responsibility of a child's education and his/her amenities. It's 20 for 1 model. This model is designed not to harm anyone's pocket and also to show incredible results in the child's foundational growing years. One educated child in a family can change the future of the entire family. Education is a weapon that can change your life. Educating a child in the family has powers to change the country and that's the formula for bringing change in the country forever.
Rahul adds, "A child is 'HOPE', 'HOPE' model gets covered by school fees, stationary expenses, school uniform fees, medical check-up fees thrice a year, 2 GB data per day for a year for online courses/classes (COVID relief initiative) along with this, on-call mentoring whenever a kid feels the need for it, career counseling by students of prestigious colleges (IITs, IIMs, AIIMS, etc.), co-curricular (sports, music, dance, art, etc.) support by professionals, moral classes in parallel with regular studies. All the education support will be continued to be provided until the kid starts earning and can support his or her family. "
Rahul further adds, "It's a model suitable for the nation's need where we all are one for all and all for one".
The uniqueness of this initiative is that anyone (either a student or an earning person) can adopt a kid with just 100/- per month irrespective of where they (donors) are and where the kid is. Through this initiative kids get another family, an educated family to guide them on the right path. The primary focus of this model is not only to help them in their education but also to focus on the overall development of a kid.
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