Feed the Needy

Humanity Beyond Barriers

Feed the Needy

Scope

An initiative to provide daily essential food-items to the most needy & vulnerable families in Bangladesh affected by COVID19 Pandemic. This will be a joint initiative by Buetian 89 Foundation in Dhaka and abroad with HBB. Humanity Beyond Barriers(HBB) is a California based non-profit organization that has come forward to help drive fundraising from USA. Bueitian 89 will focus at Bangladesh to organize volunteering activities to reach out the food to the needy crowd.

Description

As lock downs are imposed and panic-stricken residents isolate themselves, low-income people struggle to survive. Even wealthy countries like the United States and Italy are struggling with feeding the needy amidst the mass outbreaks of the Corona virus. One can easily imagine the fate of the poor in Bangladesh, where a massive people live under the poverty limits and survive from hand to mouth. Amidst lock down there is no possibility of earning the livelihood.  Hence organizations like Buetian 89 and HBB has come forward to raise fund and outreach to some of the impacted crowd who can barely survive managing daily food and nutrition during this turbulent time. Here are some key points of the project –

  • Tentative duration of this Charity project/initiative: ~6 months
  • Targeted number of Families to serve every week = ~150
  • Cost of serving each week = TK 90,000
  • Cost of serving 1-month (4 distribution i.e. 1 per week) = TK 360,000
  • Cost of serving for 6-month = TK 2160,000 (USD 25.5k)
  • Total Targeted Budget (Goal to raise) = USD 30K 
  • Any additional fund raised will help to serve more needy families

How to Donate

  1. Online by credit card via Paypal. Please select “COVID-19_Buetian89”  after checking the box indicating you want to donate to a specific fund
  2. Folks from Intel will get a matching donation from the company. Here is what you need to do –

Please donate through Benevity here and enter “COVID-19_Buetian89” in the comment section. Please select “HUMANITY BEYOND BARRIERS INC” when donating through Benevity to ensure that we get your donation.

Your donation to HBB is tax deductible.

  1. After you donate, please send a note to the people listed below so we can track the donation and it’s matching easily.

Coordinators –

Progress/Updates

As of May 7 2020,  here is our progress summary –

  • Total food-bag distributed: 965
  • Total (equivalent) meals served: 38,600
  • Total Family served: 585
  • Total family-members served: 2340
  • Food-bags were distributed in 15 districts in BD and in 12 different locality/zones in Dhaka-metro area
  • Food bag distribution is happening once every week, 4 times every month

Progress Tracker

Here is the detailed info about our fund and distribution status. Detailed info about recipient can be found in the tracking excel below. HBB transferred the first phase of the collected amount to our team in BD already. (Click on each tab to view specifics)

Feed the needy project tracker

Here are few snapshots of our food distribution activities. 

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