Support a Covid-19 Affected familiy by “No one sleep hungry-The Family Emergency Kit”.

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a significant effect on unemployment in every state of India. Young workers, women, workers with low educational attainment, part-time workers, and racial and ethnic minorities have relatively high unemployment rates.

As per the joint statement by ILO, FAO, IFAD and WHO “The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and presents an unprecedented challenge to public health, food systems and the world of work. The economic and social disruption caused by the pandemic is devastating: tens of millions of people are at risk of falling into extreme poverty, while the number of undernourished people. The effect can be seen on India as well, we can clearly imagine the life of the poor and marginalized population during this pandemic.

Millions of enterprises, industries face an existential threat. The workforce is at risk of losing their livelihoods. Informal economy workers are particularly vulnerable because the majority lacks social protection and access to quality health care and have lost access to productive assets. Without the means to earn an income during lockdowns, many are unable to feed themselves and their families. For most, no income means no food, or, at best, less food and less nutritious food. 

The pandemic has been affecting the entire food system and has laid bare its fragility. Border closures, trade restrictions and confinement measures have been preventing farmers from accessing markets, including for buying inputs and selling their produce, and agricultural workers from harvesting crops, thus disrupting domestic and international food supply chains and reducing access to healthy, safe and diverse diets. The pandemic has decimated jobs and placed millions of livelihoods at risk. As breadwinners lose jobs, fall ill and die, the food security and nutrition of many of women and men are under threat, particularly the most marginalized populations, which include small-scale farmers and indigenous peoples, being hardest hit.

For the time being, we have to stay safe with the COVID 19 pandemic and would also have to reach the marginalized, most needy and vulnerable affected with the food ration supply.

The intervention is proposed to supply dry ration (food items and emergency kit) to the unemployed daily wagers, marginal farmers, daily laborer, migrants, elderly in Ashrams, people suffering from chronic illness etc. It is proposed to cover three States and region- Dehradun and Haridwar region of Uttarakhand; Araha, Patna and Chappra (Saran) region of Bihar and Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh

Balajee Sewa Sansthan works for the marginalized section of the society covering needy rural poor. Beside this, we are also working with marginal farmers, Migrant Workers, Daily wagers, truckers and patients suffering from chronic illness such as TB disease and HIV-AIDS. This section is the most affected due to corona lockdown and in dire need of help. We are getting many calls from them as we are in direct contact with them. In Bihar generally family of our poor students of learning centre and migrant labourer coming back from the city and marginal families whose members partially are laborer.

“No one sleep hungry" it is a immediate impact of life of the all person of the families. If they have not got food support from any one they can come for crime to save his/her family which can be polluted the society. If they got food support for some time then they can wait and try for other honorable work for his/her livelihood.