Dry Ration For Daily Wagers Hit By Coronavirus

With almost 73 million people living in extreme poverty, a large section of the Indian demography has taken a huge toll in the wake of Covid-19. The repercussions of the invisible enemy (COVID -19) have led them to turn their sweat into blood for a loaf of bread. It has hit the lower sections of the society, thus pushing them towards poverty. With each passing day, thousands of people are succumbing to hunger and the rest are scavenging for food. The lockdown and the on-going pandemic has posed a question in front of us, Is it possible to feed millions of people. As the India comes out of lockdown due to COVID19, livelihoods of a large number of families in India that survive on daily wages have been affected deeply. In last few days we have seen that many migrants have lost their battle of life due to hunger while travelling. Apart from these, due to lockdown, most of the families are unable to procure the essential goods required, majorly because their direct source of income has been compromised. A long lockdown can turn into a nightmare for a daily wage labourer.

To alleviate the plight of these people, We have been working continuously for their benefits by organising distribution drives of essential ration items and Masks across many cities. As of now, iCFDR has distributed food items to the poor in Delhi, Dehradun, Itanagar, Bareilly, Badaun, Pune, Salem, Lucknow, and Jaipur. We have been able to impact over 6000 people positively. In the coming days, more and more distribution drives are being planned, to help the maximum number of people. Icfdr is also helping a community of 580 stranded garbage workers in Gurugram to send them their hometown Assam safely.

Furthermore, We plan on distributing face shields to all the disadvantaged children and the elderly to ensure that just because they are poor and they do not lose out on ways to protect themselves.

We at ICFDR, urge to provide relief to even more cities by raising resources and grants from the empathetic and charitable humans. We wish to help the great proportion of the country who are solely dependent on daily wages for their livelihood. We plan to spread across several miles to help them with food and health care kits.

iCFDR has stepped onto a journey to be a light to the ones in despair. It has targeted the daily wage workers, low-income families, farmers, underprivileged, and all those whose means of income and livelihood has been threatened by COVID-19. These folks are not only running out of food but also do not have the provision of health kits and other basic necessities. So far, We have distributed essential food items to the marginalised with the service of door-step delivery. iCFDR is on its toes, round the clock to provide help to the ones seeking it. It has equipped a large number of people with full-fledged facts about Coronavirus and the preventive measures that need to be adopted with the help of its ongoing COVID-19 Awareness Campaign. In addition, we have conducted mass distribution of sanitary masks, detergents, ration kits, and health kits in the villages of Dehradun, Delhi, Pune, Jaipur, Lucknow, Bareilly, Salem, Chennai, Badaun, Rampur, and Itanagar. It is currently running the COVID-19 relief work campaign and has listed down a bunch of activities for the near future. We have successfully benefited over 6000 families by providing ration kits and 7000/- masks.