Covid-19 relief fund – To provide ration material to the poor families in desert!

Barmer district is a marginal and desert region lining the Indo-Pak border . The country-wide lockdown has affected the tribal community and poor laborer families living in the desert between sand dunes. These people live in inaccessible desert areas, where there is no transport facility due to lack of road and it is not possible to reach without a 4 x 4 vehicle. There is an off-road distance of one kilometer between their houses. Most of their families are children, old people, and women. Family men work as daily wage laborers. These people do not have a collection of ration materials and do not have any savings because they have to earn and eat daily. Due to being down for several days, work is stalled and these people have finished rationing in their houses.

Our organization has identified 4000 families/houses in the desert area who are suffering from this problem as they have finished rationing in their houses. If someone even wants to buy the ration material, it is not available near their houses. It is necessary now to provide ration material of at least one month to these families because it will take 2-3 months for these people to return to normal functioning after the lockdown. Most of these families will not have any work available for the next two to three months. 

For the above mentioned solution, we have made a list of essential ration material items which will be delivered to their houses by our volunteers via 4x4 vehicle which can run in off-road area. For a family of 4 people, these ration items will work for fifteen days and in the very first phase of relieving, we are aiming at 4000 families which will be relieved by providing ration items at their doorsteps.

A team of two can cover 30-35 houses per day by hired 4x4 vehicle and deliver the ration material to them as their houses are off-roads.

• By providing ration material, we will save thousands of family from mal-nutrition.
• Single mother or lady who is the only take carer of the family will be helped financially as well as mentally by supporting.
• The revived craft will not be on line of extension once again as these are people who practices on the appliqué craft.
• The future of India will be saved by providing ration material to the families.