Support the purchase of rehydrating drinks for construction (naka) workers of Mumbai.

The Climate Aid Project

A climate intervention by Bombay Sarvodaya Friendship Centre, Waghoba Habitat Foundation and Kamgar Sanrakshan Samman Sangh 

Project: Dehydration relief for migrant workers during peak summer. 

Location: Khar Naka + migrant workers’ settlements, MUMBAI

Beneficiaries: 500 daily wage manual labourers from the unorganised sector

Duration: 30 days

As we cope with the health implications of climate change, let's also do our part to help those who do not have the means and resources to become climate resilient. While heatwaves and urban heating affect us all, in Mumbai, the nerve centre of climate change in India, it is the urban poor daily wage earners and manual labourers from the unorganised sector, who are particularly vulnerable to health risks like dehydration and heat stroke during this time of year. These are low-cost labourers who fuel our middle class prosperity in the city of dreams. While the rest of us can avoid the heat, take breaks or even use air conditioning, many manual labourers do not even have properly ventilated homes, and often work under the hot sun till the point of collapse.

While the Central government has issued a advisory mandating, among other recommendations:  

• Provide cool drinking water at workplace, frequently staying hydrated
• Workers to be provided shade and avoid direct sunlight…

In reality, these are not being implemented in the unorganised labour sector, and lobbying for their basic rights and dignity is a long battle which we have been engaged in for decades. For the moment, during the immediate heat crisis the Climate Aid Project will be providing Oral Rehydration Solution to workers in Mumbai’s “Nakas,” (open waiting areas where daily wage manual labourers are hired) and informal settlements to protect them from these immediate heat hazards.

Lets contribute towards building an inclusive climate resilient society by standing by our most vulnerable and marginalised citizens. Your compassion can help carry out this project to help the underprivileged, on whose low cost labour we are currently prospering as a growing economy.