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Thank you for your generosity and incredible support for this fundraiser!
Our campaign started with relief work in Mumbai, and funds raised over the course of Phase 1 will continue to serve communities hit hardest by the lockdown in the city.
However, in the light of heightened demand from across the country, we have expanded our reach. Through Phase 2, we hope to reach thousands of Indians who face the prospect of going to bed hungry.
THE PROBLEM
India has been hit with the most aggressive surge of COVID-19 cases. Today, almost the entire country is under lockdown. We need to step up once again to protect our most marginalised communities.
As the pandemic rages across our country, thousands of Indians are at risk of losing their jobs and livelihoods. Daily wage labourers, sex workers, transgender persons, and other vulnerable sections of society need urgent relief.
OUR SOLUTION
Youth Feed India and Helping Hands Charitable Trust, in collaboration with several incredible grassroots organisations, have vouched to #FeedIndia2021 and support marginalised communities — daily wage workers, single mothers, sex workers, transgender persons, homeless children and other vulnerable sections of society — that need urgent food relief to ensure that no Indian goes hungry.
A portion of this fund raiser is being deployed to #FuelTheFrontliner. This initiative is supplying dry fruits packs, juices and energy bars for nurses, ward boys, house keeping staff, and crematorium and graveyard workers who have had no rest as they brave the most challenging work environments to ensure that we can fight back against COVID-19.
Our supply chains and relief delivery process has been appreciated across the board. We aim to create and deliver 20,000 emergency ration kits to those who do not have ration cards or cannot access government benefits. Each kit costs Rs. 1000 and contains essential supplies ( (aata, daal, rice, oil, salt, and sugar) that can feed a family of 4 for 15 days. The generosity of everyone who has donated has helped us deliver 2,822 emergency ration kits to 11,288 people across Mumbai and beyond already.
THE IMPACT
Youth Feed India and Helping Hands will focus on those hardest hit by COVID-19 and associated lockdowns. This includes those who are immunocompromised and at greater risk of falling ill, including HIV positive patients, the elderly and disadvantaged women. This also includes groups that rarely receive government support, including sex workers and members of the transgender community.
Youth Feed India and Helping Hands Charitable Trust, in collaboration with several incredible grassroots organisations, delivered more than 20,000 ration kits across the city last -- ensuring that more than 1,50,000 individuals received emergency food supplies during this crisis.
We hope that each one of us will step up once again to help India's most vulnerable together.
ABOUT YOUTH FEED INDIA
In 2020, a group of young Indians from 6 cities came together to create Youth Feed India to address the hunger crisis amidst COVID-19 lockdowns. Over the course of six months, YFI delivered more than 75,000 emergency ration kits to 3,00,000 people in one of the largest citizen-led food relief programs in the country. Know more about our initiative on Instagram, Twitter, or on our website.
ABOUT HELPING HANDS CHARITABLE TRUST
Helping Hands Charitable Trust is a Mumbai-based non profit that has worked towards providing relief across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. This includes delivering dry ration packages, serving cooked meals at community kitchens, and procuring PPE kits for medical professionals and sanitation workers. Helping Hands has also reunited lost children, arranged emergency medical care, helped in providing residential facilities for stranded individuals and procured food for stray animals. Know more about our work on Instagram, Twitter, or on our website.
Updates
17 May, 2021
Dear Donors,
We continue to remain indebted to you for your support in these difficult times. The past two weeks have not been easy: as the medical emergencies seem to reduce in intensity, we have seen an exponential increase in crisis calls from hungry families across Mumbai.
Through your support, Youth Feed India and Helping Hands have been able to deliver 2,822 emergency ration kits to 11,288 people across Mumbai and beyond. This includes:
- 500 kits to Kinnar Maa Trust, supporting the transgender community in Vikhroli and across Mumbai
- 500 kits to HOPE, supporting daily wagers and slum dwellers in Ambedkar Nagar
- 30 kits to Arshiya Foundation, supporting homeless families in Worli
- 400 kits to the Powerloom Sangharsh Samiti, supporting powerloom workers and daily wages labourers in Bhiwandi
- 500 kits to Anubhuti Trust, supporting adivasi and NT/DNT communities in Badlapur
- 80 kits to MESH foundation, supporting the transgender community in Kalachowki, Lalbaug, Wadala, and Byculla
- Ration for 1 month for old age home via Helping Hands Foundation in Virar
- 100 kits to Sakhya Women's Guidance Cell, supporting daily wage workers in Vasai-Virar and Chulna Village
- 100 kits to Canossa Primary school supporting families of specially abled low income families in Mahim
- Ration for 1 month to Jeevan Samvardhan Foundation that runs 3 orphanage centres across Mumbai housing 104 kids
- 200 kits to Sai Foundation supporting migrant workers and sex worked in Latur
- 150 kits to Helping Hands Foundation, supporting cancer patients across Mumbai
- 58 kits to daily wage labourers in Rail Road
We are indebted to our community partners, small grassroots NGOs across the city and across Maharashtra, who have been the true frontline heroes serving communities that do not have access to government relief.
Please do continue sharing this fundraiser amongst family, friends and those in your networks. With your support, we want to keep working towards ensuring that families across Mumbai do not go to bed hungry.
Best,
Team Youth Feed India and Helping Hands Charitable Trust
17 May, 2021
Dear Donors,
Thank you for your overwhelming generosity!
As the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic rages across India, the medical crisis has been supplemented by a hunger crisis amongst marginalised communities. Through your support, Youth Feed India and Helping Hands have been able to deliver 1468 emergency ration kits to 5,872 people across Mumbai and beyond. This includes:
- 350 kits to Ekta Foundation, supporting the transgender community in Mulund and Ghatkopar
- 50 kits to Sakhya Women's Guidance Cell, supporting daily wage workers in Vasai-Virar and Chulna Village
- 15 kits to Bebaak Collective, supporting low income households in Nagpada
- 150 kits to St. Anthony's Home and School, supporting sex workers, trans persons, and migrant workers in Kamathipura
- 200 kits to Beghar Adhikar Abhiyan, supporting homeless communities in Kamathipura, Mahalaxmi, and the JJ Hospital area
- 200 kits to the Sir Sayyad English High School, supporting daily wage workers in Cheetah Camp
- 300 kits to Shree Sai Seva Sansthan, supporting sex workers and trans persons in Bhiwandi
- 30 kits to Aajeevika Bureau, supporting daily wage migrant workers in Saki Naka
- 170 kits to Sai Foundation supporting migrant workers and sex worked in Latur
- 3 kits to pregnant women in Thakkar Bappa Colony
- 150 kits to Helping Hands Foundation, supporting cancer patients across Mumbai
- 60 kits to daily wage labourers in Rail Road
Our focus remains on serving those who do not receive government assistance and have had their livelihoods disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns. Together, we want to ensure that in these difficult times, no Mumbaikar goes to bed hungry.
Once again, thank you for your generosity and your warmth. Please do continue sharing this fundraiser amongst family, friends and those in your networks. In these times, we are stronger together.
Best,
Team Youth Feed India and Helping Hands Charitable Trust
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