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Majority of transgender persons live in conditions of poverty and eke out their livelihood primarily through begging and sex work, both of which are avenues of work that entail public presence and physical contact. With social distancing having been mandated (and rightly so to prevent furthering of virus) transgender persons have been weaned away from their only source of work. Additionally, transgender persons are further vulnerable, because of lack of food security, housing, steady income, access to healthcare, sanitation facilities etc. A high prevalence of HIV, makes the community more susceptible to COVID-19 infection, and also the culture of community living, (in ghettos, slums,) in poor hygienic conditions has also created a situation of danger within the community for spread of Coronavirus. In such a context this proposal therefore calls for an urgent attention for the transgender community in two states of Bihar and West Bengal. Both these states have low socio-economic and poor public health systems (per capita income in Bihar is USD2,395 and in West Bengal is USD5,983 per annum as compared India’s figure of USD 7,346; source These States have been severely affected due to lockdown and the impact on daily lives of Transgender.
Kolkata Rista as an organization will be initially focusing on 1000 transgender members in the two states of India: Bihar and West Bengal. In such a context, these are the priority issues:
Providing monthly rations kits at home through fair price shops to 1000 transgender individuals and their dependant families residing in Bihar and West Bengal. Each kit would be of Rs 1000 and it would provide minimum two weeks’ worth of ration to a family and would help them sustain during the Covid- 19 crisis. The ration kits include per community is below.
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With social distancing being mandated in India (and rightly so to prevent the further spread of COVID-19virus) transgender community has been weaned away from their only source of work. The impact of this project is to address the vulnerabilities of the transgender communities, who, because of lack of food, security, housing, steady income, access to healthcare, sanitation facilities etc are especially exposed to the vagaries of life. Our objective is to come up with techniques to impede the drastic fall in their life chances, by providing them enough supplies of rations and health facilities so that they can get back on their feet after the pandemic is over. Since such livelihoods might take a couple of years to revive, our aim is to spread awareness on how they can best lead their lives, safely, by abiding by all the pandemic health and hygiene protocols.
KOLKATA RISTA
Beneficiary Charity
Dr. Santosh Kumar Giri
Organiser
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