Migrant workers’ and Daily Wagers’ families need your support #UniteForMigrantWorkers with Indus Action and Bhumi

The second wave of the pandemic has hit all sections of the society but the migrant and other daily wage workers who are still coping from the first wave's effects on their livelihood and family's health are still struggling. 230 million people have slipped back under the poverty line, years of progress done by the families have been reversed by a few months of the pandemic and the lockdown followed by it. This has resulted in most migrant workers struggling to reach home or provide safe shelters for their families. The families are living hand to mouth and some are not sure when they would receive their next meal. Along with this most workers are living in stress and uncertainty in this health crisis and do not have the necessary protective tools to ensure the safety and well-being of their families, practice Covid safety methods or detect early signs of Covid infection and find timely medical help.

Indus Action and Bhumi aim to support the most vulnerable families of migrant workers & daily wagers through cash transfers to support

1. Home isolation - Ensuring they have access to nutritious meals for their family - provide dry ration kits that will sustain them for 4 weeks
2. Enabling Covid-19 appropriate behavior- Provide face masks, soap, and thermometer to monitor any fever during the early stages of the infection.
3. Educating the families of migrant workers through our Helpline - We will raise awareness regarding safe community practices, vaccination, and its benefits and reduce reluctance towards vaccination. Our helplines will enable us to identify the unique needs of each family we reach out to and give them customized support and access to locally available resources.

Through this effort, Bhumi and Indus Action will provide stability and ensure no migrant worker or daily wager family sleeps hungry or is uninformed, or is unable to protect their family in these times. Our work on the ground will help us map the specific needs of each vulnerable family and build interventions required to support them until they can rebuild their livelihoods and protect their families. We aim to support 5,000 migrant workers' and daily wagers’ families so that they can survive the anticipated lockdowns and lack of livelihoods.