Covid-19 Food Ration Program

The Quran Foundation is working towards the Feed the Hungry project during this COVID-19 Lockdown. So far, we have reached 5600+ Families across India. We have covered the most deserving families who are mostly daily wage earners, old people, widows and orphans. We have also done Food Ration Distribution program in Migrant labor camps and places where the daily wagers are stranded. We have more 5000 requests which we have personally identified by our volunteers.

As we all know that lockdown is still on due to Covid-19 Pandemic and the most effected other than patients are the daily wage earners and those stranded labors in different parts of India. We identify poor and needy families through our volunteers who are in different cities and also through our NGOs partner network. They identify needy people personally by reaching them and fill their details in the form we have made to collect details, like this we are reaching only identified families. We do support these families with mostly dry ration or sometimes medicines, with very few by cash. The ration pack sizes are different like,

Weekly Ration for family with 3: INR 900 (Rice 10Kg, Wheat Flour 5Kg, Eating Oil 1Litre, Pulses 2Kg, Salt 1Kg, Chilly Power 500gm, Ginger Garlic Paste 250gm and Pickles 500gm)

Weekly Ration for family of 5: INR 1250 (Rice 25Kg, Sugar 1Kg, Eating Oil 1Litre, Pulses 2Kg, Salt 1Kg, Chilly Power 500gm, Ginger Garlic Paste 250gm and Pickles 500gm)

Weekly Ration for family of more than 5: INR 1500  (Rice 25Kg, Wheat Flour 5Kg, Eating Oil 2 Litre, Pulses 2Kg, Salt 1Kg, Chilly Power 500gm, Ginger Garlic Paste 250gm and Pickles 500gm)

Some bigger families, which are very few with INR 2000. (Rice 25Kg, Wheat Flour 5Kg, Eating Oil 2 Litre, Pulses 4Kg, Salt 1Kg, Haldi/Chilly Power 700gm, Ginger Garlic Paste 500gm, Sugar 1Kg, Milk Pack 3 Litres and Pickles 1 Kg)

Please note that at some places there will be variation in the items quantity and type of items as per the requirements, like for example in Telangana and AP people eat more rice but in Gujarat, Maharashtra, UP etc people need more Wheat Flour then rice. 

This is carried out by disbursing the requested amount to each volunteer and then volunteers will do procurement and distribution of ration. Once the distribution is done volunteers report back with pics and other details for our records and audit purposes.

Through this project we are trying to help daily wage earners with basics necessities and food items that are required for survival. So far have reached 6650 Families (as on 27th May 2020) with Food items. As due to Covid lockdown almost every business is shutdown and those who work on daily wages like homemade servants, auto-rickshaw pullers, cab drivers, salesmen, plumbers, painters, helpers, etc. (except those in Govt companies, Hospital Staff and IT professionals). This small help with food ration make them sit inside homes and follow the lockdown rules set by the govt, instead of going out in lockdown and struggling for food. We are seeing few instances on news channels where people are dying both due to starvation and suicides. With our small efforts, we are trying to help our country poor people.